<p>I'm a junior in high school currently living in the US hoping to get into the Life Science program at either University of Toronto St. George or University of Toronto at Mississauga. I've heard that they let a lot of people in and that it's fairly easy to get into because they have so many students and that the school isn't AS prestigious/strict as people make it seem, but I've also heard it's quite hard to get admitted as an undergrad because of its prestige. I'm kind of confused because I can't really find any concrete information about the school, which sucks because I really want to get in! So just a few questions:</p>
<p>How often do they let international students in?</p>
<p>How easily do international students get in?</p>
<p>Do they reconsider you if your GPA is average (like in the lower 3.0's) but you have good teacher recommendation letters, a convincing personal essay, and good SAT & ACT scores?</p>
<p>What exactly is the real acceptance rate for UofT?</p>
<p>University of Toronto really only considers your academics. (GPA and SAT scores only) U of T Life Science usually has a cut-off average of 87%. As long as you have an average higher than 87% with a decent SAT score, you should be able to get in.</p>
<p>I can tell you right now that you will get better grades at Mississauga than at the St George campus. It’s just a smaller community. At St. George you will feel like a number. The enrollment is so high that they will not know you by name. You will have to work hard at getting the professors to remember you - visit them often but if you ask questions you could have found the answers to yourself then you will not be seen in a good light. You will get a top notch education from U of Toronto.
They also don’t consider any EC’s. Straight numbers game and your GPA from all years of your high school more importantly your final senior grades are very important to them.</p>
<p>Only grade 11 and 12 marks count. There are no teacher recommendations or personal essays for admissions purposes. Twelve per cent of U of T first years are international students. The average secondary school grade for first year science students in 2012 was 88.8% for St. George and 84.1% for Mississauga. </p>
<p>When I look at the scattergram of my school’s history in applying for UofT, the majority of the students who applied got in, unless their SATs are well below the 1800s and weighted GPAs of 3.5. So I don’t think that it’s going to be too difficult.</p>
<p>Do be cautious though. I heard a lot of people got in and couldn’t survive the first year - also known as the ‘weeding out season’ - and forced to transfer out. </p>
<p>Not sure what 1st year is like now but my 1st year chemistry class was - 3 midterms and a final. No homework grades. Midterms were 25 multiple choice questions each worth 4 pts and minus -1 if you got it wrong. If you thought there were 2 possible ways to calculate the problem - both answers were there too.</p>
<p>Do you know exactly when the application for 2015-2016 school year is open? I keep hearing that if you are an international student, you need to apply as soon as you can for a better chance. Is that true?</p>
<p>Here’s the link for U of T applicants from the US. <a href=“http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/futurestudents/admissions/high-school-students/us-highschool”>http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/futurestudents/admissions/high-school-students/us-highschool</a></p>
<p>The application deadline is January 31 for arts and science and for engineering. However, Ontario universities generally do three rounds of admission. One in December, one in mid-March and one in mid-May. For U of T, if your marks are super-high, you’ll get an admission offer in December, but otherwise you’ll wait until March or May. Other Ontario universities have a lower threshold at which they’ll give December offers. </p>
<p>All Ontario universities are applied for through OUAC. (Ontario Universities’ Application Centre) The OUAC applications generally open around the end of October. Here’s the link to the OUAC application website for those not attending an Ontario high school. <a href=“105 - Home | Ontario Universities' Application Centre”>http://www.ouac.on.ca/ouac-105/</a> If you are not a Canadian citizen, you will use form 105F. </p>
<p>As for applying early, well, it couldn’t hurt. Ontario applications are much easier than US applications. </p>