How to Get Into UBC: Free Workshop for Grades 11-12
In this free workshop, we will show your family why there is no such thing as getting into UBC in general: the required courses, the way the average is calculated, and the extra steps all change depending on which degree your child applies to, and some of those decisions were made back in Grade 11 course selection.
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UBC states it plainly. An applicant has to meet the general admission requirements that apply to everyone, and then the degree-specific requirements that depend on the province they are applying from and the degree they are applying to. That second half is where families get caught. Commerce at Sauder requires English Studies 12 and Pre-Calculus 12. Engineering requires English Studies 12, Pre-Calculus 12, Chemistry 12 and Physics 12. Science requires English Studies 12, Pre-Calculus 12, one of Anatomy and Physiology 12, Chemistry 12 or Physics 12, and then Chemistry 11 and Physics 11 on top. Arts requires only English Studies 12, unless your child intends to major in Economics, in which case Pre-Calculus 12 is required. We will walk through the whole table, including Kinesiology, Land and Food Systems and Design. Then we will cover the part almost nobody knows, which is that UBC runs two academic assessments on the same transcript: an overall academic assessment that is the same regardless of program, and a core academic assessment that varies by the degree applied to. Sauder counts Physics and Chemistry inside its Math and Computation category, while Science requires Chemistry 11 and Physics 11 as prerequisites. UBC also excludes Applied Design, Career Education and Physical and Health Education from the academic average, sets aside the lowest grade when that course is neither a degree requirement nor relevant to the intended area of study, and places emphasis on the more senior course when a subject appears at both Grade 11 and Grade 12. We will cover the campus difference, because Science at Vancouver requires Chemistry 11 and Physics 11 while Okanagan requires Chemistry 11 only, and the minimum overall admission average is 70 percent at Vancouver against 67 percent at Okanagan. We will flag the degrees that carry an extra step beyond the Personal Profile, including the Commerce video interview, the supplemental applications for Computer Science, Nursing, Media Studies and Design, and the auditions and portfolios in Music and Fine Arts. We will close with what a Grade 11 student should be selecting for next year, and what a Grade 12 student should be checking before the application opens in October.
Parents and students in Grades 11-12 are both welcome. The session is live on Zoom, and we email the link and a short summary after you register.
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