Notice of Admission Decisions, Feedback and Appeals
Updated August 11, 2020
Business and Economics
Candidates from Business and Economics will learn whether they are being offered admission to co-op at 1 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. The deadline for accepting the offer of admission is Monday, Oct. 5, 2020.
If you accept admission to co-op you must agree to follow the admission conditions for your program.
Feedback and Appeal Process
Feedback
- If you have not been offered admission and wish to receive feedback from interviewers, you will first need to attend a group feedback meeting. The meetings will be offered on Tuesday, Oct. 6 and Wednesday, Oct. 7 (time of meetings to be announced).
- If you wish to get interview feedback after attending the meeting, please answer the questions under Feedback Request below, paste the questions and answers into an email and send the email to cpersaud@wlu.ca. The deadline to submit is noon on Friday, October 9.
- If you want feedback from interviewers, you will need to be available for a scheduled appointment with the exception of class time or extenuating circumstances. These appointments will take place on Monday, Oct. 19 and Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Request for Interview Feedback
Please copy all the text between the lines below into an email, answer the questions, and send the email to Cassandra Persaud at cpersaud@wlu.ca. The deadline is noon on Friday, October 9, 2020.
- Please summarize what you remember telling us about your work experience.
- Please summarize what you remember telling us about your extracurricular and volunteer activities in your first year at university.
- Please summarize what you remember telling us about your extracurricular and volunteer activities in the previous two years.
- Please summarize what you remember telling us about a situation. (We will provide more information about this question after the admission interviews have been completed.)
- Please summarize what you remember telling us when we asked you to tell us anything else about your accomplishments and experience.
- If you submitted extenuating circumstances before your interview, please provide a brief summary of what you told us during the interview about your extenuating circumstances.
- I hereby declare that I have entered only details I remember mentioning during my admission interview.
Appeals
If you wish to appeal the admission decision, you must submit your reasons in writing. Send your written appeal to Karen McCargar, Director, Co-operative Education & Workplace Partnerships. You may appeal only if you attended a group feedback meeting and a feedback appointment with interviewers. The deadline for appealing the admission decision is noon on Friday, October 23.
In your written appeal, please include the following documents:
- Request for interview feedback you submitted by email before meeting with interviewers.
- A written explanation of one to two pages (Word document, for example) outlining your reasons for appealing the decision.
We are able to consider appeals if you provide:
- Evidence that the decision not to admit you was unfair because interviewers didn’t use the advertised criteria (marks, work experience, volunteer and extracurricular activities, and performance in the interview) to make their admission decision.
We are not able to consider appeals which are based on:
- Information you did not provide or develop fully in the interview; or
- Criticism of the current admission process; or
- Technical issues which occurred during your co-op admission interview.
Students who appeal the admission decision will learn the results of their appeal by email during the week of November 9-13.
Arts or Science
If you are a candidate from Arts or Science, you will learn at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, whether we are offering you admission to co-op.
If you accept admission to co-op you must agree to follow the admission conditions for your program.
The deadline for accepting the offer of admission is Thursday, September 24, 2020.
Requesting Interview Feedback
If you have not been offered admission and wish to receive feedback from your interviewer, you will be able to call the Co-op Office at 519.884.0710 x4484 to schedule a meeting.
The deadline for calling to request a feedback meeting is noon on Monday, October 5, 2020.
We will provide feedback during appointments on Tuesday, Oct. 6 and Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
Appeals
If you wish to appeal the admission decision, after attending a feedback meeting, you must submit your reasons in writing to Karen McCargar, Director, Co-operative Education and Workplace Partnerships.
The deadline to submit a written appeal is Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.
We are not able to consider appeals which are based on:
- information you did not provide or develop fully in the interview or
- criticism of the current admission process or
- technical issues which occurred duing your co-op admission interview. (New for 2020.)
We are able to consider appeals if you provide:
- Evidence that the decision not to admit you was unfair because interviewers didn’t use the advertised criteria (marks, work experience, volunteer and extracurricular activities, and performance in the interview) to make their admission decision.
Students who appealed the admission decision will learn the results of their appeal on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Appeal decisions are final.