Got my packet today. Was admitted 4 days ago. Still didn’t open it lol
Accepted at UBC Engineering
SAT I: 690 M + 720 V
ACT: 31 (did not submit)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99 (4.0 for all Gr 12 and required/pre-req courses)
IB: Chem, Bio, Math (6), German (7), Geography, English; Predicted of 6s & 7s for all subjects.
Senior Year Course Load: Phys, IB: Chem, English, Bio,Geography.
ECs: Team Captain (2 years), Volunteer, Tutoring, Honor Society President…
High school in Canada? (yes, no): No, USA public school.
It took ~7 weeks from the time UBC had all the details. I am not sure if the decision was made on the first quarter grades (+ Gr 11) or the semester set that was recently sent out; there was a slight improvement (from A- to A) in one class. The final decision might also been made based on IB predicted grades.
I have a Canadian citizenship and its impact on UBC admissions is rather unclear. Of course, it helps with tuition costs.
Good luck to all!
Just to update, got packet yesterday.
Faculty at UBC: Arts
SAT I (breakdown): 1490/1600
ACT: (breakdown): 33
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t give unweighted, 3.87/5 Weighted
Academic classes only GPA: No clue
Rank (percentile if rank is available): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Handful of 3’s
IB (place score in parenthesis): Nah
Senior Year Course Load: 3 ap’s, 2 College Credip Plus
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I got most improved player my junior year in soccer
ECs: Various Volunteering, School online newspaper Editor-in-Chief, Captain of Frisbee team 2 years, played 4, Soccer 4 years, People to People Student Ambassador, Cornell Summer College, and Calculator Club vice president.
High school in Canada? (yes, no): USA
Accepted
Faculty at UBC: Sciences
SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT: (breakdown): n/a
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 89.5%
Academic classes only GPA: 90%
Rank (percentile if rank is available): school doesn’t report, but top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): not offered
IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
Senior Year Course Load: Chem 12, Calc 12, Psych 100, Psych 101, Physics 12, Bio 12, Religion 12 (required at my school), English 110, English 120
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): small local-level awards
ECs: ~20h/week dance, choir, piano, volunteering, big national award (leadership, entrepreneurship involved), blog
High school in Canada? (yes, no): yes
I believe that my essays played a big role in my admission, as I was accepted within 24 hrs of uploading my transcripts that had mediocre marks.
Under my application status is says I will be granted an admission decision March 15th at the latest, yet there is still nothing up?? People who have been accepted that I know have been admitted/heard by 11:30 AM… is this odd?
@bhappy21 same; I’ll loose my marbles if they leave it like that past the 15th! I wish schools wouldn’t give an end date they can’t guarantee.
@ck9817 @bhappy21 Unfortunately, many Universities have far too much appetite. I was made the same promise but the actual acceptance arrived about 1 month after the promised date. Do not despair, just try to be patient. If you are close to their averages, it could take much longer too; if you are well above the thresholds, the decision “should” come sooner.
BTW: Numbers are easier to evaluate but the personal profile requires a number of readers and some of them do not meet their deadlines.
thanks for the heads up @braindrainer – now I can stop frantically refreshing my portal every hour!
@Braindrainer I hope it’s not a whole month. UBC is my #1, and I think I have a good chance, but as an international student, I have no idea.
I have ~98% Average for senior year courses they use, and my SAT is either a 1520 or a 1360 (I only took it with essay once, because I had no idea my scores would jump so much. Does anyone know if they’ll use my 770m/750cr, or the the 690m/670cr because it was taken with essay?)
I’m pretty sure I’m abover average, but only if they use my 1520. 1360 is pretty average.
Also, 1 month would put me super close to decision day, and I feel like I’ll have given up at that point.
I couldn’t help it and checked my portal again, and my status got updated… it says " we are not able to offer you admission at this time." does it mean no hope at all?
@Rsujung that means you didn’t get in. now I’m freaking out. I checked mine again and still nothing. :\
but it states that they’ll continue to monitor and update if any changes in the status occur by May 15th & my 2nd choice is still up for evaluation. :((( tryna stay positive for my 2nd choice…
@Rsujung you only didn’t get into your first choice
@ck9817 yeah I’m applying as an international. May 15th sounds really off-schedule because I have to reply to accepted schools by May 1st… i just hope they release the decisions earlier than this time.
@Rsujung It means you haven’t been accepted; however, you haven’t been outright rejected. Note the words “at this time.”
I don’t know if this means a waitlist or not making it through a particular batch of applications. If it’s a waitlist, then unfortunately, it’s unpropitious. You may want to ask the UBC support staff about this, because they are quite helpful.
If your grades or standardized test scores improve, it will be VERY helpful to post those.
Best of luck! 
Thank you, @DartMonkey93. Calling the admissions office was my first thought but then I woke up just after the offices were closed (time zones haha) so I had to wait. I just got off the phone w/ a person from the school’s office though, she told me I was not being wait listed, but it was just that the admission committee could not come to a decision due to the competitiveness of my choice of program (which just sounds like waitlist though). She also told me letters of appeal/school results will not be taken into consideration. Here is my status, just to make it clearer:
We have evaluated your application and due to the competitive nature of the program to which you have applied, we are not able to offer you admission at this time. We will continue to monitor your competitiveness relative to the rest of the applicant pool and any changes to your application status will be noted on the Student Service Centre on or before May 15. You do not need to submit any additional documents or transcripts.
Do you think it is still better than a waitlist? Would love to hear your thoughts.
on a side note, the person on the line was very sympathetic about my problem. she was very nice haha
@Rsujung I’m reverting back to my original assessment. They get info from domestic kids after international kids, so this is more of a ‘we need to look at them then go back to you’ kind of sucky that they don’t time it so international people know for sure before commitment day on May 1
@ck9817 I have no idea how long each of your apps will take to evaluate. I can only offer my one data point.
Most schools superscore your balanced SAT and with that average score you should to good. BTW, Canadian Universities typically only looks at your prereqs plus other top academic subject scores or the total of 4-6 subjects. In the US, the full 4 years of coursework could in play.