Competitive System (putting good students first)
With the competitive system, there is no safe haven for students. Applicants are expected to out perform others to gain admission offers. Admission to all faculties at the University of Calgary are on a pure competitive basis. For each faculty, the final minimum score(s) required to secure an offer of admission will only be determined once the qualifications of all applicants are accessed.

High School student applications are now considered on the basis of their averages over the five appropriate subjects. The Fall 2003 statistics shows the last student admitted into the Faculty of Engineering possessed a high school average of 76%, where the Haskayne School of Business's cutoff was at 80%. Due to its competitive bases, if the Faculty of Engineering has just received many high scores students, the scoring cutoff may be increased to 78% or above. Note that all faculty has a "quota" regarding the number of first year students they can admit in a school year and therefore, the more popular the faculty is, the more likely that the cutoff score will be higher the very next year.

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