Waterloo & UofT Engineering
I have been seeing a lot of stuff online about how competitive these programs are to get into. I want to get into one of these programs, and I thought I had a decent chance. Looking at statistics online really demotivated me tho. I list my application highlights.
Grade 11(Top 6) GPA: 97.2
Grade 11(including English) : 96.5
EC's:
First Robotics Team(3 years):
- Won the Impact award at DCMP (most prestigious award in the country for FRC)
- Involved in and led some outreach events impacting 344,267 individuals
-Lead autonomous software development on my team
SHAD program:
-Won best overall solution pitch in my division.
Paid Software Engineering Internship(2months):
-Create a relational database to manage 5g network traffic
- pretty competitive, only two companies in my area offer tech internships for high schoolers
Vex Robotics(2 years):
- Software team lead
Spirit of Math(5 years):
- Honours every year I participated
Waterloo Math Contest(Pascal,Caley,CEMC,CCC,Avagadro,Euclid,Fermat)
- got a distinction in all of them (not sure it matters tbh)
School:
- Silver Medal every year
Open Source Dev(4 years):
- contributed to 30 repos
-500 commits
- C++, Python, Javascript, HTML & CSS, Java, GO
Food Bank Volunteer (5 years)
-stack shelves and stuff
MLH event:
- Top 20% of projects in a university-level competition(100 out of 500+ projects got to present to judges)
I was thinking of applying to computer engineering. What do you guys think my chances are if I do early admissions for both? My main question is whether it's worth it for me to do early admissions or if it's a waste of time given my stats. I prob have a better chance at getting into Waterloo since I heard it's more about grades than UofT.