OUAC Data
OUAC Data
Applicants to Ontario Universities do not file their application directly to the university; rather they file it through OUAC, which acts as an intermediary to streamline the application process. Students submit their applications to OUAC, which forwards them to the universities. Once offers are made by the university, that information is communicated to the student through OUAC. OUAC differentiates between two types of applicants: 101 and 105. 101 students are those who apply directly from Ontario high schools, while 105 students are effectively all other applicants.
Important: At this time, SEAL has only cleaned and processed the 101 data. The cleaning process and final data described below contains only to the 101 students. The SEAL Lab is working on making available the 105 data.
Holdings: 101 data for the 1994/95 to 2016/17 schools years. Planned update for 101 applicants to the 2019/20 school year late in 2021. Plan to add 105 applicants from 1994/95 to 2019/20 school years in early 2022.
Sample Student Information:
Year of application
Student’s country of residence.
Country where the student attended a previous English Language school
Aboriginal status.
Aboriginal type for students who identify as Aboriginal
Codes for university-specific programs that student applied to
Previous postsecondary attendance
Course code for courses used in best-six average
Date and reason for application
Language of instruction at school
Marital status
High school information
Sample Application Information:
Count of students in year used to create cut offs
gcut85 – Top 85% (15th percentile) cutoff for variable uoff_g
gcut95 – Top 95% (5th percentile) cutoff for variable uoff_g
Student offer and response
Full or part time study
A detailed data dictionary for the OUAC data is available from the SEAL lab.