Repeated courses and non-day school courses

If you applied to a program in the faculties of Arts, Environment, Health, and Science or to the Architecture program, you will not be penalized for repeating courses. If you repeat a course, we'll use your highest grade in that course when calculating your admission average.

For Engineering and Mathematics programs, you'll be asked when you submit your online Admission Information Form (AIF) to explain why you repeated any courses. We'll send you instructions for the AIF once you've applied and we may verify this information before we make an admission decision.

Courses other than day school

We will consider grades from schools that are accredited by your provincial or territorial ministry of education. For some programs, we may ask you to identify courses taken or being taken outside of your regular day school and to explain why the course(s) was not completed in your regular school.

• If you are applying to a program in the Faculty of Mathematics and take a course outside of your regular day school, you may jeopardize your chances of being admitted.
• For all other programs, including Engineering, taking an online or night school course through your school or school board during the regular school year will not affect your application. 

The following are examples of courses we'll accept if they're provincially accredited.

If you take one or two spares, that will not impact your chances of being admitted to any of our programs at Waterloo.

• Admission requirements
• How to apply
• Submitting grades and documents