McMaster University · Hamilton
Honours Health Sciences (BHSc)
A supplementary application decides admission before you arrive. High stakes, one shot, but you know where you stand by May.
A supplementary application is required. Its deadline for this cycle has not been published.
One application, one decision, before you start.
- Supplementary app
- Required
- Next date
- 125 days left
- OUAC application deadline
- Seats
- 240
- Applicants
- ~8,000self-reported
- Roughly 3% admitted. Year not confirmed: treat as approximate.
OUAC code
- Honours Health Sciences
Verified . Confirm against the university's own page before you act.
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Timeline
- 125 days leftCritical
OUAC application deadline
- Not yet publishedCritical
Supplementary application: dates not yet published
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Supplementary application
Deadline
2027 dates not yet published
Estimate, not a date
Last cycle the portal opened 2–5 February with responses due early-to-mid February. Expect similar.
Two essays. Question 1 and Question 2, each offering two options (A/B). Choose one option per question.
- Platform
- McMaster online submission site
- Limit
- 1,500 characters per response, including spaces and punctuation
- Evaluators
- Two evaluators, most often fourth-year BHSc students, sometimes staff or faculty
- Fee
- Not published
- Questions published in advance
- No
- Rubric published
- No
Weighting
Supp app scores are percentiles and compete directly against GPA.
A 90% average scoring 95+ on the supp app can be admitted over a 98% average scoring below 80.
| Supp app score | GPA | Outcome | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| >95 | 90% and above | Offer | 50 |
| 90–94 | Low 90s and above | Offer | 100 |
| 85–89 | Mid 90s and above | Offer | 150 |
| 80–84 | High 90s and above | Uncertain | Not published |
- Supplementary application score against GPA against outcome
- Supp app score
- >95
- GPA
- 90% and above
- Outcome
- Offer
- Count
- 50
- Supp app score
- 90–94
- GPA
- Low 90s and above
- Outcome
- Offer
- Count
- 100
- Supp app score
- 85–89
- GPA
- Mid 90s and above
- Outcome
- Offer
- Count
- 150
- Supp app score
- 80–84
- GPA
- High 90s and above
- Outcome
- Uncertain
- Count
- Not published
Source McMaster open house presentation
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Required courses
Six 4U/M courses, co-op excluded from the average
Required
- ENG4U
- SBI4U
- SCH4U
- One of MCV4U / MHF4U / MDM4U
- One non-math, non-science, non-technology 4U/M credit
The non-science credit is a requirement, not a suggestion.
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Averages
McMaster admissions
90% minimum to be considered
A floor, not a competitive number.
OUInfo
Minimum 90% to be considered
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Traps
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A high GPA does not get you in
The supp app is weighed in consort with your average, and the two compete. Applicants treating it as a formality after hitting 90% are the ones who don't get offers.
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MNS is not the only McMaster health code
MNS is the BHSc. It is not MLH (Honours Health & Society) and not the Life Sciences Gateway. Applicants routinely list the wrong one.
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Prep
- Shape
- Revision, not rehearsal
- Time
- 1–2 weeks
Writing the responses takes 1–2 hours. The time goes into revising: tightening hooks, cutting adjectives, fitting 1,500 characters.
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What the university hasn't published
- Supp app deadline: not yet confirmed
- Fee: not published
- Rubric: not published
- Questions: not published in advance
- Timeline dates: not yet published
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Sources
Official
- McMaster Honours Health Sciences admissions
- OUInfo MNS
- McMaster open house presentation
Reported
- Youthfully: McMaster BHSc supp app guide (admissions consultancy, commercial interest)
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