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University of Waterloo

Computer Science

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Most people who got in had 96.0 or higher. You’re less than a point below that.

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15 January

in 73 days

8 things are due: 7 for UBC and the OUAC application for Waterloo and Queen's.

Examples: a 95.2 average, and a plan for UBC Sauder, Waterloo Computer Science and Queen's Commerce.

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15 Feb Queen'sCommerce timed written response Practice this written answer

15 Feb WaterlooAdmission Information Form Draft this essay

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Essay Coach

Paste a supplemental essay. The coach marks what already works, what to tighten and what to fix, and tells you why.

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The prompt

Tell us about a community you belong to and the part you play in it.

Your essay

Paste your draft hereI have always been a very passionate and dedicated person who loves helping others. At my school, that community is the food drive. Last November, two weeks before the drive, only four of us had signed up and the shelter was counting on our donations for December. I stopped posting in the group chat and started walking into club meetings at lunch, asking each one for two people and one hour. By Friday every shift was filled, and we collected 640 items. This experience taught me alot about what community really means.

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Coach's notes

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I have always been a very passionate and dedicated person who loves helping others.1 At my school, that community is the food drive. Last November, two weeks before the drive, only four of us had signed up and the shelter was counting on our donations for December. I stopped posting in the group chat and started walking into club meetings at lunch, asking each one for two people and one hour.2 By Friday every shift was filled, and we collected 640 items. This experience taught me alot about what community really means.3

1Tighten

This tells the reader what kind of person you are, and the food drive already shows it. Cut this line and open on the problem.

2Works

Specific and easy to picture. This is the sentence a reader will remember. Keep it.

3Fix

“Alot” is two words. The line also ends on a general claim. End on what changed for the clubs instead.

Interview Practice

Answer a fresh question on camera, against the clock, the way timed video interviews work. Then the coach tells you what landed and what to fix.

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Question 1

Describe a time when you identified a problem and took the lead in solving it.

Time to thinkRecording starts when this reaches zero. No pausing.

Recording 1:24

Answer saved

Answer time1:30

Answered in 1:24

Describe a time when you identified a problem and took the lead in solving it.

Coach's feedback

You picked a strong story for this question, and it showed. Opening with “only four people had signed up to help” put the interviewer straight into the problem.

The main thing to work on is your ending. You reached the strongest moment of the answer, all 18 shifts filled and 640 items collected, and then kept talking.

The question also asks how you spotted the problem. Next time, add one sentence on what tipped you off.

Story Bank

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The coach is talking

You answer out loud

Take me to the moment. When was this, and what was going on?

It was November. Two weeks before the drive, only four people had signed up to help, and the shelter was counting on us for their December stock.

✓ Situation

What was on your shoulders here?

I was the grade 11 rep, so filling the volunteer shifts was basically my job.

✓ Task

Walk me through what you actually did. One specific moment.

I stopped posting in the group chat because nobody was reading it. I went to three clubs at lunch and asked each one for two people for one hour.

✓ Action

What happened after you did that?

All 18 shifts were filled by the Friday. We collected 640 items, the most we'd ever done. And the clubs still split the shifts now.

✓ Result

Your story so far0 of 4

Situation
Task
Action
Result

Filling the food drive shifts

Leadership

Written from what you said

Situation

In November of grade 11, two weeks before our school food drive, only four people had signed up to volunteer, and the local shelter was counting on us for its December stock.

Task

As the grade 11 rep, filling the volunteer shifts was my responsibility.

Action

Nobody was reading the group chat, so I stopped posting there. Instead I went to three clubs in person at lunch and asked each one for two people for one hour.

Result

All 18 shifts were filled by that Friday, and we collected 640 items, the most our drive had ever collected. The clubs still split the shifts between them.

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Where do Chance me's averages come from?: From results people posted publicly for Fall 2024 to 2026, not from the universities. People who got in post far more often than people who didn't.
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Is the coach a real person?: No. The coach is AI. It asks you questions to draw out a story, and it marks up your essays. It never writes a word for you, and it never rewrites yours.
Which interview formats does this prepare me for?: Timed video interviews: you see a question, get a short prep window, then a fixed time to answer on camera. Timed written answers too. Custom interviews let you set the prep and answer windows to match yours.
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