Data Science Grade Requirements

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

Co-op Admission Interview

In order to qualify for an admission interview, you must obtain a minimum GPA of 7.00 overall in your first year. Interviews will take place in late November or early December of your second year.

To qualify for admission, you must also obtain an overall GPA of 7.00 after completing term 2A in the fall.

You will need to have completed at least five credits, and no more than 7.5 credits (including transfer credits), by the end of August. You must be enrolled full-time (at least four courses) in second year as of September.

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 5, 2025.

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.

We will not consider marks we receive after the deadline. Before taking courses through another schools, 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.

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 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.