I am currently a junior in a US school and I was wondering if anyone has insight on how UtofT admissions work. Their website was a bit vague saying that for US students you need a “high” gpa and listed some SAT and ACT requirements. I also read that for conditional admission they only look at current year and year before (meaning junior and senior year?). I also couldn’t find their admission rate anywhere for internationals and was wondering what they look for in early admissions as well. If anyone could confirm or correct what I have stated above as well as using their own words to clarify the process and what they look for I would really appreciate it.
U of T doesn’t admit directly to the CS major. An ACT score of 32+ and a GPA of 3.7+ (unweighted) may be sufficient to get into the CS stream. This link describes how the application process to be admitted to the CS specialist and major are handled: http://web.cs.toronto.edu/program/ugrad/admission.htm Calculus is required for admission.
Aerospace engineering is under Engineering Science at U of T. This is probably the hardest admit of them all. You would need top scores, and even then, part of the admissions “score” is the video interview, so top scores aren’t a guarantee. You need calculus, senior level chemistry (eg AP) and senior level physics.
At U of T, you can apply to one program per faculty. Since engineering is in a separate faculty (Faculty of Applied Science) from CS (Faculty of Arts and Science), you can apply to both CS and engineering.
@bouders When it states the cutoff does it refer to that of all classes, all computer classes or just the most important ones (AP computer science). If it is all classes will classes from all 4 years be looked at and calculated in the gpa or only junior and senior years?
@Jon1717 The cutoff refers to the first year (freshman) CS prerequisite courses taken at the University of Toronto. They are CSC148 and CSC165. It doesn’t refer to your high school grades. So the average of your grades in these two courses has to be at or above that year’s cutoff in order for you to progress to declaring the CS specialist or major or minor.
The department doesn’t publish the cutoff for the particular year in which you’re taking the courses, because they’re not really looking for students who can perform at a certain level. They’re looking for the top ‘x’ number of students who took those first year courses. So, if you happen to get a 99 average in the courses, but more than x number of students got a 100 average, you’ll be out of luck to get into the specialist or major or minor.