Cutoffs

Who makes this

Cutoffs is built and run independently by one student at McMaster University — no company, no university affiliation, no sponsors. I did OUAC myself in 2026, and the thing that made it stressful wasn’t the marks — it was that every answer lived somewhere different. Admission averages on one site with no way to search across them, supplementary-application deadlines buried on faculty pages, scholarship cutoffs published nowhere at all. I spent the summer after Grade 12 building the site I’d wanted that year.

How the numbers stay honest

The rule this site is built on: every published number is computed from data, never typed in. The 1,613 program listings, the 1,572 admission ranges, the scholarship tables, the counts in the guides — all of it is derived at build time from what the 36 universities publish, so a change at the source flows through every page that mentions it. Nothing on this site is an estimate dressed up as a fact.

  • Every claim carries its source and a checked date. The sources page lists where each kind of number comes from.
  • The data is re-verified against the source weekly. An automated check samples live university listings against ours every Monday; when the listings move — as they did when the 2027-entry cycle published — the whole dataset is re-scraped and rebuilt.
  • When a program disappears, we say so. Delisted programs keep an honest page explaining what changed instead of a dead link, and if one you starred is affected, your plan tells you.
  • No made-up numbers. No Ontario university publishes an acceptance rate, so you won’t find one here — here’s what exists instead.

What this site is not

Not a university, not affiliated with OUAC or any institution, and not a counselling service. It’s a reference built from public information, plus tools that do the arithmetic the way each program says it does it. The published range tells you where the line sat — your school’s guidance office knows things about your situation that no website can.

Found something wrong?

Accuracy is the whole point, so corrections get fixed fast — usually same-day. Tell me what you found and include the page link if you can.