Ascent · Program streams
Every stream applies differently.
A business application is decided by a supplementary essay. An engineering application is decided by a course a student picked in Grade 11. A design application is decided months before either of them is due. Start with where your student is heading — the strategy follows from that.
Not sure yet?
That's a normal place to be in Grade 11, and it's a better starting point than a stream picked to sound decisive. Narrowing the direction is the first thing an Ascent session does — and a student sitting across two streams is a strategy problem worth solving properly, not a problem with the student.
Across every stream
The stream changes. The process doesn't.
Whichever direction a student is heading, Ascent runs the same two-year sequence — strategy, positioning, essays, deadlines, decisions. What changes is where the weight falls.
A balanced list
Reach, match, and safety, built against real grades and real prerequisites — in every stream.
Writing that sounds like the student
Enough rounds of feedback that the final draft is theirs, sharpened — not ours, borrowed.
Every deadline tracked
OUAC, supplementary applications, portfolios, and out-of-province systems, on one calendar.
Next step
Bring the stream you're aiming at.
The first session is more useful when we know the direction — even a rough one. We'll pressure-test it, and say so if the plan and the transcript don't agree yet.
What we'll ask in the first hour
Which streams are actually in play
Often two, sometimes one that nobody has said out loud yet.
What's already on the transcript
Grades and Grade 11 course choices, which quietly rule some streams in and out.
How much runway is left
Grade 11 fall and Grade 12 winter are very different starting points, and the plan differs accordingly.