How to Write a Strong Supplementary Application for Ivey AEO, UBC Sauder, UofT Rotman and Queen's Commerce: Free Workshop for Grades 11-12
In this free workshop, we will show your family what makes a supplementary answer strong for Canada's most competitive business programs: what each program says it is scoring, why all four ask your child to reflect rather than list, and how to turn real experiences into answers that hold up in writing and on video.
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We will start with the thing all four programs have in common. Ivey AEO, UBC Sauder, UofT Rotman Commerce and Queen's Commerce each publish, in their own words, what they are looking for, and every one of them asks for reflection, not a list of activities. UBC scores the Personal Profile that Sauder applicants complete on four criteria: engagement and accomplishment, leadership, substance, and voice, and says plainly that it is not looking for a long list of achievements. Queen's most recently published rubric scores reflection at every level of both its written and video responses, puts authenticity in the top level of each, and warns that going over the 335-word limit hurts the application. Ivey weighs leadership equally with academics, encourages applicants to use the full word limit for a detailed reflection, and its recruitment team coaches a Context, Action, Result structure. Rotman describes its supplemental as an interview of sorts, with questions that require reflecting on your experiences and showing potential as an emerging business leader. We will then go program by program and show what a strong answer looks like against those criteria: how to pick the right experience, how much space to give the situation versus what your child actually did, and how to write the part most answers skip, which is what changed as a result and what your child learned. We will cover the video side too, because Sauder assesses communication, critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving, and authenticity under pressure, and Queen's questions are not shared ahead of time. We will finish with how to build one honest set of stories that can be shaped for all four applications, and how to use the practice attempts each program offers before the real one counts.
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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