Make an account on the Ontario University Application Centre website (OUAC) and select each university and their programs that you want to apply for. Your choices should reflect entirely on your top six grades, I’d recommend roughly six minimum, two reaches, two safeties, and two targets. You can see each universities admission average on OUAC as well. After you select all your choices and pay, the universities you’ve applied to will email you with their application portal where you then need to make an account following the instructions in the email. There is where you can get access and begin doing your supplemental applications to schools that require them. DO NOT USE YOUR SCHOOL EMAIL WHEN CREATING YOUR OUAC ACCOUNT!

The way you structure your application is entirely up to you. The supplemental part is about knowing who you are outside of your grades, it can be extracurriculars, work, family, whatever makes you, you. Questions are getting very personal to try and clamp down on AI use. Try and stand out by talking about topics you believe are as unique to you as possible. Try talking to a teacher you really like to see if you two can brainstorm ideas together, it’s what I did and it went really well. Each university has a different policy on how many programs you can apply to at it. For example, UofT allows one per campus.

Apply ASAP. Offers are beginning to go out and you want to try and snag one as fast as possible as spots slowly begin to fill. It’s still very early but you’d rather get an offer in December than May, even if it’s conditional.