Does Waterloo care how you rank it on OUAC?
We do not review application ranking when making admission decisions. Students will receive an admission decision for every Waterloo program they apply to.
University of Waterloo, quoted from the OUAC guide for guidance counsellors, September 2026 entry.
How that compares
Waterloo does not consider your ranking at all — the same as 17 of the 21 Ontario universities that answer this.
2 universities use your ranking among their own programs
Brock, Carleton
1 university ignores it for offers but may use it for the waitlist
Ottawa
1 university ignores it except in one faculty
U of T (St. George)
This is what Waterloo tells Ontario guidance counsellors; it is not published on their student pages. Rules like this change rarely, but confirm anything you are about to act on.