Does anyone know if the program is full right now for next year?

Hi there, nobody really knows in here. Your should talk to someone from the engineering department. Their office is located on the second floor of the engineering building (JHE). If you are a mac student, the drop in office hours for the first year academic advisor (Sally Williams) are from 1pm-4pm. If you are a student from a different institution then I would recommend emailing someone from the engineering department, either sally williams or someone else.

Here is a list of some people you can contact and ask any questions about enrolment/admissions (it says beside each person, what their jobs are so you can email the right person):

http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/about/peopleassocdean.html

Good luck !

are u thinking about transferring now? i dont think thats feasible, maybe next year or for summer term.

Hey,

Thanks to everyone for the replies! I am not applying just now, I'm a high school student and I applied back in January. At the time, I didn't have the required average for an acceptance and have been working really hard to achieve the average. I managed to go from a 72% average to 85%. I have been in touch with an admissions officer and she just recently told me that they are not making further offers of admission pending space availability in the program after June 1st. If the program is full after June 1st no more offers will be made to the program. Is it possible to fill up before midterms came out? I just emailed the associate dean of Engineering asking if they were still accepting people, hopefully she will be able to clarify this.

Thanks!

I am not familiar with the dates people have to accept their admission by, but they may still be accepting people but send them out much later. The only example i can think of is if people don't meet the minimum average with their second semester grades

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is it possible to fill up before midterms came out? I just emailed the associate dean of Engineering asking if they were still accepting people, hopefully she will be able to clarify this.

Thanks!

By midterms do you mean university midterms or high school midterms ? And yes sometimes (depending on how many people apply) Eng 1 can get filled up very quickly. If you are talking about high school midterms, then no its not possible that Eng 1 got filled up just from the early acceptances made in January/February, it will get full once they accept people in their 2nd/3rd round of admissions which is now I believe (late April).

Originally Posted by jim1

By midterms do you mean university midterms or high school midterms ? And yes sometimes (depending on how many people apply) Eng 1 can get filled up very quickly. If you are talking about high school midterms, then no its not possible that Eng 1 got filled up just from the early acceptances made in January/February, it will get full once they accept people in their 2nd/3rd round of admissions which is now I believe (late April).

Yes, I do mean high school midterms and I hope you're right because according to the admissions officer it is supposedly.

Also, pulling your average from 72% to 85% is really good ! Just keep working hard this term and focus on your science courses along with calculus (MCV4U1 I think)... don't forget that once they accept you, you have to maintain a certain average to keep your offer..in my year it was like 80 I think, I don't really remember.

they always send out most of their applications after 2nd term high school midterms.

Is it really possible for the program to be that full, before they even receive the high school midterm marks?

First year is a general engineering program and Mac only takes in a certain number of students. Last I heard we had roughly 800-900 students or so.

Just to give you a fair warning, you will be competing with others when you want to get your first choice and it is not guaranteed unless otherwise stated in the letter. For example, if Mechanical Engineering is your area of interest, you may lose it to someone else who have better grades than you. So keep up from the beginning if you get in!

Good luck.

they usually send a huge wave of conditional offers around this time-may. usually that means ur in pending ur marks dont drop below __ marks

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hey,

Thanks to everyone for the replies! I am not applying just now, I'm a high school student and I applied back in January. At the time, I didn't have the required average for an acceptance and have been working really hard to achieve the average. I managed to go from a 72% average to 85%. I have been in touch with an admissions officer and she just recently told me that they are not making further offers of admission pending space availability in the program after June 1st. If the program is full after June 1st no more offers will be made to the program. Is it possible to fill up before midterms came out? I just emailed the associate dean of Engineering asking if they were still accepting people, hopefully she will be able to clarify this.

Thanks!

If they're not making any other offers until June 1, that likely means it is full, and they'll only send out more offers if a lot of people reject their offers to go somewhere else--isn't the date for doing that sometime in May?
As for whether or not it can fill up by midterms...yes, of course it can! It's a very popular program, and they send out offers of admission before final grades are out anyways.

Ahah thank you everyone!

I really hope it isn't full yet, I will continue to try my best to get in. I really want to come to McMaster it seems like the best fit for me. Can anyone comment on the conditions of first year? Any experiences? Things we should avoid? Things we shouldn't miss out on?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ahah thank you everyone!

I really hope it isn't full yet, I will continue to try my best to get in. I really want to come to McMaster it seems like the best fit for me. Can anyone comment on the conditions of first year? Any experiences? Things we should avoid? Things we shouldn't miss out on?

Well first year engineering is going to be a new experience for you, its different from high school. Sometimes your going to be in a class with around 400 people as opposed to 30 in high school. Also, your going to be doing a lot of travelling between your classes..you might have a class in TSH and the next one is a d04 lab in ETB...that being said I wouldn't recommend getting a locker for first year engineering, especially if you live in rez.

Professors?

Some are good, some are not !
For math I had childs and he was really good. McLean is good as well.
For physics I had Preston and Okon, they were both good, but Okon is definitely better !
For 1c03 its one proff--dr.Doyle...umm he's okay, I didn't really enjoy the lectures but the course isn't too bad.
For 1p03 its also one proff--dr.Fleisig...dr.fleis ig as a person is nice and approachable. Unfortunately a lot of people hated his class. The tutorials and the lectures are meh (I only enjoyed the lectures when he used to bring real life examples to class).
For 1d04 I had dr.Farmer, to be honest I kindda liked his lecture style, some people didn't like him.
For materials (1m03), I had Dr. Zurob...he was without a doubt one of the best professors I have ever met..his lectures were always over flowing with students..some students used to sit on the floor because they couldn't find a seat..lots of students from different sections were attending his lectures!
For chem (1e03), we had one professor--Dr.Barbier...in all honesty I slept through every lecture of his that I attended...I stopped going to class after September and just studied on my own for his class.

Courses:

Math 1za3: This course covers materials from gr 12 calculus (derivatives and such), and also goes deeper with series&sequences..whi ch cover a large portion of the exam... I would strongly recommend reading the book for this class and doing a lot of the practise problems..also, make sure you do the sample tests posted online and ask questions if you don't get anything.

Math1zb3&1zc3: 1ZB3 deals mainly with integration (anti-derivatives) and their applications. Personally, I enjoyed the course and did alright in it. If you practise a lot and do sample tests, you should be fine for this course. The same applies to math 1zc3, if you read the book,do the practise problems and practise with some of the sample tests you should be fine (to be honest I felt that 1zc3 was harder than 1zb3, just something to keep in mind).

Physics 1d03&1e03: The only way to get good at physics is to practise with capa...in first year eng, there are online assignments called "CAPA"..even though they are worth 2.5% of your overall grade, they are worth a lot more since both of the midterms (and the exam I think) are built around capa problems..so take your time to do them and ask questions if you don't get something.

Chemistry 1e03: For chem, if you read the lecture notes (I felt they were useless, but some people found they were helpful), or take your time to read some sections of the book that you don't really understand, do the tutorial problems posted online, do the old midterms that the proff posts online...you should be fine !

Materials 1m03: Personally for this course I found it useful to go to class, read the book and practise. It important that you practise the problems posted at the end of each lecture slide...also doing old midterms posted online was helpful...for the exam, a lot of the multiple choice questions were from the old exams that he posts online !

Engineer 1d04/1c03/1p03: For 1d04(programming), its important that you practise programming on your own. Some people found the book useful, other didn't, but what's important is to practise programming on your own. For 1c03, practising with autodesk is also helpful for the labs, and sketching different objects from the Leake book is helpful as well (for this course try to pick good group members for the final report). Engineer 1p03--not much to say for this course other than "hopefully" you have good group members since the final project was worth like 45% of our final grade..the rest were midterm/exam/assignment. For the final exam and the midterm its helpful to read the textbooks and practise/memorize the solution of the midterms that are posted. The reason I said "hopefully" is because they choose your group members in September.

Electives: I took econ 1b03&1bb3... I don't know what to say since a lot of people have different views of these courses..but in general if you have the book, read it..if you don't, go to class and pay attention to the materials being covered.

You shouldn't miss out on the fun that you will experience in frosh week (especially faculty day).