Alternate Offers of Admission

What is an alternate offer?

If you’ve received an alternate offer of admission, it means that with the grade information we have to date, we aren’t able to offer you admission to your first-choice program.  We will continue to consider you for admission to your first-choice program as well as any other program choices through all rounds of offers (they continue until May!). 

What programs have alternate offers?

There are a few programs where we will automatically consider you for an alternate program if you’re not admissible to your first-choice program

• If you don’t have the admission average for co-op, we’ll consider you for the regular program (except for the Bachelor of Engineering, which is co-op admission only).

• If you don’t have the admission average for BA: Criminal Justice and Public Policy, we’ll consider you for BA: Justice and Legal Studies.

• If you don’t have the admission average for BA: Honours Psychology, we’ll consider you for BA: Honours Sociology.

• If you don’t have the admission average for BSc: Animal Biology, we’ll consider you for BSc: Zoology.

• If you don’t have the admission average for BSc: Bio-Medical Science or Human Kinetics, we’ll consider you for BSc: Biological Science.

What are my options?

You can wait for later rounds of offers and see if you get admitted to your first-choice program.  Remember, the deadline to accept your offer of admission through the OUAC is June 1st!  Note: You can only accept one offer of admission to the U of G.
You can accept your offer of admission to the alternate program, knowing that we will continue to consider you for admission to your first-choice program and any other program choices through the remaining rounds of offers (until May).  If you’re admitted to another program in a later round of offers, you can still accept that offer.  It’s important to note that by accepting a new offer of admission, you will be declining your original offer (e.g., your first acceptance to the University of Guelph becomes void).
Contact your Academic Advisor during course selection (starting in late June) to discuss options such as switching to another major within your degree program.

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