Arts and Science Grade Requirements

We are now accepting applications from first-year students in Honours Arts and Honours Science seeking admission to co-op in 2023. 

The deadline to apply is September 1, 2023, but we recommend that you apply earlier. 

Admission Interview Information

To be eligible for a co-op admission interview for Arts Co-op or Science Co-op, you must have an overall GPA of at least 7.0 in first year, or a GPA of at least 7.0 in your honours discipline courses and at least 6.5 overall.

• ​You must meet the minimum first-year GPA to be eligible for a co-op admission interview.
• You must be enrolled full-time in second year as of September.

We will let you know by email whether you are eligible for an admission interview. We will begin sending messages in late July, but it may take until early September to contact all applicants.

Learn more about the admission interview process.

GPA Information

Your minimum overall GPA includes all the courses you completed at Laurier in the fall and winter terms of your first year. You must achieve the overall GPA requirement by the deadline for applying to co-op, which is September 1, 2023.

You must complete five full credit courses (ten half-credit courses) by April of your first year.

• If you complete fewer than five full credits by April, you must have completed at least ten half-credit courses by the end of the Spring/Summer term.
• Please note that, for courses you take in the Spring/Summer term, we will consider only courses you repeated, courses required for progression to second year and courses needed to meet co-op requirements for completing five full credits during first year. 
• Although we will consider courses taken after the winter, we may give more credit for academic achievement to students who achieved the minimum GPA cut-off by the end of the winter term.
• If you complete more than five full credits by April, you must provide verification from your academic department that you need to complete three more years of full-time study. 
• We will not consider you for co-op if you have more than a total of 7.5 credits as of the end of year one.*

You must meet the requirements for progression to second year by the end of the Spring/Summer term.

*Excess Credits

If you choose to have any excess credits excluded from your transcript, we will consider you eligible to apply for admission. Please note that this change to your transcript will be permanent and that you will still need to achieve the minimum required GPA in first year to be eligible for an admission interview. When determining whether you met the minimum overall GPA requirement for co-op, we will first consider all required courses in your first year, then we will consider the earliest electives you took at Laurier, followed by your later electives, to a total of five full credits.

Courses Graded as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

When calculating your GPA, we will include only those courses for which we see a numeric grade. We will exclude grades from courses such as UU150 that provide only a grade of either satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

We will, however, include courses graded as "satisfactory" when counting the number of courses you have completed.

We may give you slightly less credit for your marks than we give students who provided numeric grades for all ten half-credits.

Note: If you completed UU150 when it still provided numeric grades, we will include your grade when calculating your GPA.

Credit (CR) Option Courses

If you attended Laurier before spring 2022 and converted any grades to credit (CR), we will not include the CR grade when calculating your grade point average (GPA). We will, however, include CR courses when counting the number of courses you have completed.

Didn't Meet the GPA Requirements?

If you don't meet the GPA in 2023, we will grant admission interviews only to students who achieved the minimum GPA required by the application deadline.

If you fail to meet the minimum GPA but you petition your department to reconsider any of your grades, let us know your new grades as soon as possible. Please submit your petition by September 15, to ensure your department has time to make a decision by November 1. We will not consider requests we receive after November 1. 

If, after your petition, you meet the minimum GPA, we will offer you an admission interview, and will make decisions very soon after. To be eligible, you must also have met the application deadline.