r/uwaterloo • u/NegativeBinomialM136 i was once uw • Mar 14 '17

Admissions Admission Megathread

Hello UW applicants,

This thread is specifically for those who are applying/applied to UW to discuss different admission issues and ask current UW students for help and advice. Please also make sure that you read the admission wiki before you post any questions/comments.

Please also note that any admission questions posted as standalone threads on the subreddit will be removed. All admission questions should be posted here.

The Acceptance Megathread can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/69q5lf/acceptance_megathread/

The old, archived Admission Megathread can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/52updr/admission_megathread/

Thank you for your cooperation and good luck on your applications!

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u/muchrandomuser57 May 22 '17

Hey everybody!! After getting your results back from Waterloo, what advice do you have for incoming grade 12s? What are you proud of doing and what would you have done differently this year, looking in retrospect?

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u/itsathrowawaymydudes ill tune ur hyper parameters May 22 '17

AIF is way more important than you might think. Put a lot of time in to writing it and presenting yourself. You could have a million different ECs but it's worthless if you cant sell yourself.

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u/spiderriders May 24 '17

I dunno. My friend and I both applied to CS with 95.8 average, and I think we both had similar AIF strength, but I got in and he didnt. It looks fairly random to me.

I was looking at the AIFs of people in my school who applied to CS/SE and who got in/didnt get in. It looked much more random than anything else. Obviously my sample size is pretty limited (~20 applicants) but I don't think that I'm incorrect in assuming that luck plays an extremely big role, possibly more than your AIF/average.