 In 2018, 61.2 percent of new students at UWaterloo had a high school average equal to or greater than 90 percent, and 28.2 percent had an average equal to or greater than 95 percent.However, this proportion varies greatly between programs at the university.The most competitive program is Software Engineering, for which 98.3 percent of new students had a high school average equal to or greater than 90 percent, of which 86.3 percent had an average equal to or greater than 95 percent.