Computer Science Grade Requirements

We are now accepting applications for fall 2025 admission to co-op. The deadline to apply for co-op is September 5, 2025, but we recommended that you apply earlier. 

Co-op Admission Interview

Candidates compete for admission to Computer Science Co-op. We choose candidates based on a co-op admission interview. 

In order to qualify for an admission interview, students must meet the minimum GPA as set annually by the Co-op Office, but it will not be lower than 7.0 overall. Applicants must also obtain the annually set minimum GPA in the Fall term of Year 2. You must achieve the overall GPA requirement by the co-op application deadline to be granted an interview.

Interviews will take place in late November or early December of your second year.

GPA Information

Your minimum overall GPA includes all the courses you completed at Laurier in the fall and winter terms of your first year.

The minimum overall first-year GPA required for students who apply for admission Computer Science Co-op in 2025 will be announced in May.

Although we will also consider courses taken after the winter term, we give more credit for academic achievement to students who achieved the minimum GPA cut-off by the end of the winter term.

We will not consider marks we receive after the co-op application deadline. Before taking courses through another school, check whether they will provide you with marks by our deadline.

Course and Credit Requirements

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 we will consider only:

• courses you repeated
• courses required for progression to second year
• courses needed to meet co-op requirements for completing five full credits during first year.

You must meet the requirements for progression to second year by the end of August. You must be enrolled full-time (at least four courses) in second year as of September.

If you complete more than 7.5 credits (including transfer credits) by the end of August, you are not eligible for co-op as you are too far along in your studies.

Please note:

• The Honours BSc Computer Science and Psychology and the Honours BSc Computer Science and Psychology: Computation and Cognitive Neuroscience Stream programs are not eligible for co-op.
• The Honours BSc Computer Science and Mathematics and Honours BSc Computer Science and Physics are eligible for co-op, however students need to plan ahead to confirm course availability understanding they may need to follow a different work study sequence.

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.

Didn't Meet the GPA Requirements?

We will grant admission interviews only to students who achieved the minimum GPA required by the application deadline.

If, however, 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 give your department 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.