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Health Sciences (BHSc, on-campus)

Gated at the dooranalysisHealth Sciences

The decision is made while you are still in Grade 12. High stakes, one shot, but you know where you stand by May.

You are admitted to the BHSc and you graduate from the BHSc. The supplementary application is the filter, and it happens while you are still in Grade 12.

A supplementary application is required, due Feb 15, 2027.

Supplementary app
Required
Next deadline
136 days left
Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing
Enrolment
420 seats
Faculty
Faculty of Health Sciences

OUAC code

  • Health Sciences (first-year, on-campus)

Verified 2026-09-15/2026-09-17. Confirm against the university's own page before you act.

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When you're evaluated

Gated at the dooranalysis

Decided before you arrive.

You are admitted to the BHSc and you graduate from the BHSc. The supplementary application is the filter, and it happens while you are still in Grade 12.

You are admitted to the program you will graduate from. There is no second competitive filter on university grades.

What this rests on (1)

  • Gated at the door — Mac BHSc and Queen's BHSc. A supplementary application decides it before you arrive. High stakes, one shot, but you know where you stand by May.

    OntApps Raw Data 6 — corrected (clean), framing line

02

Timeline and deadlines

  • Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing

    136 days leftclose to another date

  • Supplementary application deadline

    150 days leftclose to another date

  • Application deadline for every other Queen's program

    164 days leftclose to another date

  • All documents due

    194 days left

  • All decisions posted on SOLUS

    245 days left

  • Decisions communicated

    Decisions communicated by mid-May. Submitting early does not get you an offer earlier — Queen's states this explicitly.

    Not yet published

  • Ontario high school response deadline

    256 days leftclose to another date

  • Upper-year transfer (QHQ) supplementary — platform opens first week of March, due 15 June

    270 days leftclose to another date

  • Winter entry supplementary deadline

    Winter entry: 15 October.

    Not yet published

Dates close to other programs

  • McMaster Engineering I — Supplementary application deadline (high-school applicants), Jan 28, 2027 (4 days from Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • McMaster iBioMed — Supplementary application deadline, Jan 28, 2027 (4 days from Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Waterloo Engineering — AIF, Online Interview and all supporting documents, Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Queen's Commerce — Application deadline — Commerce, Health Sci and Nursing only, Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Rotman Commerce — Final supplemental + documents deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • U of T Life Sciences (St. George) — Documents deadline (St. George Arts & Science), Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • UTM Life Sciences — Documents deadline (U of T Mississauga), Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Waterloo Kinesiology — Application deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • U of T KPE — Supporting documents deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • U of T KPE — Statement of Interest deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Waterloo Engineering — AIF, Online Interview and all supporting documents, Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • Queen's Commerce — Application deadline — Commerce, Health Sci and Nursing only, Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • Rotman Commerce — Final supplemental + documents deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • U of T Life Sciences (St. George) — Documents deadline (St. George Arts & Science), Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • UTM Life Sciences — Documents deadline (U of T Mississauga), Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • Waterloo Kinesiology — Application deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • U of T KPE — Supporting documents deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • U of T KPE — Statement of Interest deadline, Feb 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • Queen's Commerce — Supplementary Application deadline, Feb 15, 2027 (same day as Supplementary application deadline)
  • Waterloo Kinesiology — Documents deadline, Feb 15, 2027 (same day as Supplementary application deadline)
  • Queen's Commerce — Supplementary Application deadline, Feb 15, 2027 (14 days from Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Queen's Commerce — Supplementary Application deadline, Feb 15, 2027 (14 days from Application deadline for every other Queen's program)
  • Waterloo Kinesiology — Documents deadline, Feb 15, 2027 (14 days from Application deadline for Commerce, Health Sciences and Nursing)
  • Waterloo Kinesiology — Documents deadline, Feb 15, 2027 (14 days from Application deadline for every other Queen's program)
  • Queen's Commerce — Application deadline for every other Queen's program, Mar 1, 2027 (same day as Application deadline for every other Queen's program)
  • Queen's Commerce — Application deadline for every other Queen's program, Mar 1, 2027 (14 days from Supplementary application deadline)
  • Queen's Commerce — All documents due — transcripts, English test scores, Mar 31, 2027 (same day as All documents due)
  • Rotman Commerce — Residence (StarRez) application for the housing guarantee, Mar 31, 2027 (same day as All documents due)
  • McMaster iBioMed — iBioMed documents due, Apr 1, 2027 (1 days from All documents due)
  • McMaster Kinesiology — Application deadline for 2027 entry, Apr 1, 2027 (1 days from All documents due)
  • Queen's Commerce — Response deadline for Ontario high school students, Jun 1, 2027 (same day as Ontario high school response deadline)
  • Rotman Commerce — Accept your offer to keep the housing guarantee, Jun 1, 2027 (same day as Ontario high school response deadline)
  • Queen's Commerce — Response deadline for Ontario high school students, Jun 1, 2027 (14 days from Upper-year transfer (QHQ) supplementary — platform opens first week of March, due 15 June)
  • Rotman Commerce — Accept your offer to keep the housing guarantee, Jun 1, 2027 (14 days from Upper-year transfer (QHQ) supplementary — platform opens first week of March, due 15 June)
  • Queen's Commerce — Upper-year Commerce transfers — supplementary application, Jun 15, 2027 (same day as Upper-year transfer (QHQ) supplementary — platform opens first week of March, due 15 June)
  • Queen's Commerce — Upper-year Commerce transfers — supplementary application, Jun 15, 2027 (14 days from Ontario high school response deadline)

03

Supplementary application

Supplementary application required for the on-campus BHSc. Queen's makes no alternative offers — every program you want must be listed on OUAC.

BHSc admission page: "Note: the Supplementary Application is required for admission to the on-campus Bachelor of Health Sciences program."

Supplementary Application (Queen's Health Sciences)

A supplementary application is required.

Platform

Kira Talent (third-party platform, replaced Queen's in-house system starting the 2023–24 cycle)
Secondary pressNot individually verified

Weighting

No percentage split is published. Queen's says the supplementary application is "very important" and that grades alone will not produce an offer. "The minimum admission average and the number of students selected based on the Supplementary Application varies from year-to-year".
Not individually verified

Format published

Two components. Written first, then video. Fixed order, no choice.
ContradictionSources disagreeSources disagree

Access chain

Apply → acknowledgement in 3–5 days → Kira invitation up to 8 business days later (sent weekly) → nothing after 8 business days: email suppapp@queensu.ca. Worst case ~17 days.

04

Required courses

  • ENG4Uminimum 80%francophone applicants may offer EAE4U or FRA4U
  • SBI4U
  • SCH4U
  • One of MHF4U, MCV4U
  • Two additional 4U/M coursesnot checkable
ENG4U (minimum 80%; francophone applicants may offer EAE4U or FRA4U), SBI4U, SCH4U, one of MHF4U / MCV4U, two additional 4U/M courses — required (six total)

Queen's BHSc Admission Requirements (16 Sept 2026): "requiring an 80% in ENG4U (or French equivalent), 4U biology, 4U chemistry, one of 4U Advanced Functions or 4U Calculus and Vectors, plus 2 additional 4U or 4M courses." (EAE4U/FRA4U are not named there — the page says "or French equivalent".)

05

Averages

Published minimum

75% cumulative (including prerequisites), 80% in ENG4U. Queen's separately anticipates the actual admission average will be over 90% for the on-campus BHSc. Average is calculated on prerequisite subjects plus the next best 4U/M courses, to six.
Sources disagree

Verbatim (16 Sept 2026): "A minimum cumulative average of 75% (including prerequisite courses) is required for admission consideration." / "It is anticipated that the admission average will be over 90% for the on-campus BHSc." The "next best 4U/M courses, to six" method was not re-checked.

Grade ranges

  • Queen's BHSc admission page
    BHSc admission page — 75% cumulative minimum to be considered; admission average "anticipated to be over 90%"
    ContradictionSources disagreeSources disagree
  • Queen's BHSc FAQ
    BHSc FAQ — 75% minimum; competitive average anticipated "high 80's to low 90's"
    ContradictionSources disagreeSources disagree
  • Queen's central admissions
    Queen's central admissions — Competitive Average table — QH → Low 90s (minimum for admission consideration, last September)
    ContradictionSources disagreeSources disagree
  • OUInfo
    OUInfo — Grade range → Mid 90s
    ContradictionSources disagreeSources disagree

    OUInfo QH mid 90s spot-checked.

Applicant-reported — not official

  • Reddit users claim the competitive average to be around 95, with applicants falling 2ish% +-
    CommunityCommunity unverifiedSources disagree
  • Queen's does not publish an acceptance rate; third-party guides put it around 4%
    Third partyCommunity unverified
  • → Number differs per source, ballpark of 200-400
    CommunityCommunity unverifiedSources disagree

Admissions statistics

  • 265 first-year students admitted (Fall 2023, Queen's BHSc FAQ)
    Sources disagree

    Verbatim: "A total of 265 first-year students will be admitted to the program in the Fall of 2023."

  • Over 5,000 applications received in each of the last two cycles (Queen's BHSc FAQ)

    Verbatim: "Over 5,000 applications were received for admission for each of our last two admission cycles."

  • → roughly 5%. Queen's does not publish an acceptance rate
    EditorialNot individually verified

    Calculated in the PDF from the two FAQ figures.

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Traps

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Additional details

Admission structure

Queen's University, Kingston · On-campus, direct entry · 420 seats
Not individually verifiedSources disagree

Alternate offer

Queen's makes no alternative offers — every program you want must be listed on OUAC.
Not individually verified

The specific Queen's page is not named in the PDF.

Access chain

Apply through OUAC → acknowledgement email in 3–5 days (8-digit Queen's ID) → Kira invitation up to 8 business days after that; invitations go out weekly → nothing 8 business days after acknowledgement → email suppapp@queensu.ca. Worst case ~17 days from applying to being able to start.

Online BHSc

QH is the on-campus degree. Queen's also runs an online BHSc and a Non-Degree Interest Student route with different requirements. Online BHSc does NOT require the supp app at point of application → online students transferring to on-campus DO.
Not individually verified

Related codes

  • Health Sciences — upper-year transfer

09

Where sources disagree

  • Queen's: date all decisions are complete — 21 May (Smith) vs status update by 14 May (OUAC)

    unresolved

    • Smith School of Business — Admission Process

      "May 21, 2027 – All Queen's admission decisions are complete and posted on SOLUS."

    • OUAC — Queen's guide

      "We will update all first-year applicants on the status of their application no later than May 14, 2027."

  • Queen's supplementary written-response word limit: 335 vs 285

    unresolved

    • Queen's Supplementary Application FAQ (live 15 Sept 2026)

      "there is a 335-word limit" — the same page still says "The deadline to submit your Supplementary Application for the Fall term is February 15, 2024, 11:59 pm EST."

    • The Queen's Journal, 13 Sept 2024

      "The University’s website says applicants will have 10 minutes to write their written response, with a limit of 285 words." ("the same format will apply for this year"; deadline "Feb. 15, 2025")

    Which limit came first is not established; the Journal gives no launch-year (2023–24) limit. 335 is the figure on Queen's page today. The PDF's advice: confirm the live number in the platform before you write.

  • Queen's Health Sciences: four different official competitive figures

    explained

    • Queen's BHSc Admission Requirements (verified 16 Sept 2026)

      "A minimum cumulative average of 75% (including prerequisite courses) is required for admission consideration." "It is anticipated that the admission average will be over 90% for the on-campus BHSc."

    • Queen's BHSc FAQ

      75% minimum; competitive average anticipated "high 80's to low 90's"

    • Queen's central admissions — Competitive Average table

      QH → Low 90s (minimum for admission consideration, last September)

    • OUInfo QH

      Grade range → Mid 90s

    PDF reading (editorial): 75% is the floor that lets your file be looked at; Queen's own working number across two of its own pages is low 90s; OUInfo's "mid 90s" is the outlier.

  • Queen's Health Sciences first-year size: 420 seats vs 265 admitted

    unresolved

    • OUInfo QH (enrollment)

      420 seats

    • Queen's BHSc FAQ

      "A total of 265 first-year students will be admitted to the program in the Fall of 2023."

    • PDF note (no source named)

      → Number differs per source, ballpark of 200-400

    The FAQ figure is for Fall 2023; the OUInfo figure is the current listing. Different years may explain part of the gap.

  • Queen's Supplementary Application FAQ still shows 2024 deadlines

    unresolved

    • Queen's Supplementary Application FAQ (15 Sept 2026)

      "The deadline to submit your Supplementary Application for the Fall term is February 15, 2024, 11:59 pm EST." / "…Winter Entry is October 15, 2024, 11:59 pm EST."

    • Queen's Undergraduate Admission Deadlines; Smith

      "February 15, 2027 – Deadline to submit the mandatory Supplementary Application"

    The FAQ is still the only official source for the format details (10 minutes, 335 words, 2+2 video) and for the 11:59 pm time, so those are marked as last published for 2024.

  • PDF: "Waterloo is the only one … that explicitly disclaims an early-round advantage"

    unresolved

    • PDF p.21 (editorial)

      Waterloo is the only one of these three — and of the eight programs covered across both research documents — that explicitly disclaims an early-round advantage.

    • PDF p.110 (Queen's BHSc)

      Decisions communicated by mid-May. Submitting early does not get you an offer earlier — Queen's states this explicitly.

    • PDF p.51 (McMaster Engineering)

      McMaster explicitly states that submitting early may allow your application to be reviewed sooner but does not guarantee an earlier offer.

    Waterloo's statement is about having no early-consideration deadline; Queen's and McMaster say early submission does not guarantee an earlier offer. The "only one" wording may overstate the difference. Found while building programs.json; not changed in the PDF.

  • Queen's Health Sciences: Reddit ~95 vs official figures

    unresolved

    • Queen's pages; OUInfo

      Official figures range from "over 90%" to "high 80's to low 90's", Low 90s and Mid 90s (see K17).

    • Reddit users

      Reddit users claim the competitive average to be around 95, with applicants falling 2ish% +-

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Sources

Dates and codes checked 2026-09-15/2026-09-17.