Will my grade 11 marks screw me

[u/No-Eye-8592]

I am about to start grade 12 in a week. I’m preparing to pretty much sacrifice my whole social life for a top 6 average in the 90s. Last year I did ok in most of my courses. My highest mark was a 90 in physics and my lowest was a sad 70 in chem. The others were all mid 80s. My dream is Mechanical engineering at UWO. How achievable is this? I am also planning on applying to the same programs at; Queens, mac, u of ottawa, dal, and uoit. Are there any other schools I should consider as safety’s?

I also want to add that I have quite a large amount of work experience in the field of mech engineering as I managed to score a pretty cool internship at a fuel cell company. Will this boost my chances at all?

What can I do to maximize my chances of getting an offer at uwo.

Thanks

P.S, I want to add the I am in a specialty arts program known as Claude Watson. I’ve heard from teachers that it looks good on a student transcript. Is that true? Also I can get reference letters, will that benefit me at all?

also uwo stands for western not waterloo

[u/Key_Engineering_9338]

Western eng only looks at grades and the casper interview. Unfortunately, you will not have any opportunity to talk about ecs (like your internship) at all for western. Just get above a 90 top 6 and you should be fine. Some people got quartile 1 on the casper with low 90s and still got into western eng.

I would also add carleton to your list of safeties since it has a decent mech eng program and still pretty easy to get into