Responding to an Offer

November 1 is the earliest date colleges can start sending out offers of admission to applicants. Offers are issued until program seats are filled or waitlists are established.

Tip: It takes time for us to receive the data from the colleges, so offers of admission might not be posted to your ontariocolleges.ca account immediately. Log into your account regularly to check your offers of admission.

For more information, go to the Offers of Admission page on ontariocolleges.ca.

When you receive an offer, it’s displayed on the Offers card within your Dashboard. An Offers count is also displayed in the banner.

Accepting an Offer

To accept an offer of admission:

• Log into your ontariocolleges.ca account.

• On Your Dashboard, in the toolbar, select Offers.

The number of offers is displayed in the banner, and the offers are listed in the Available Offers section of the Offers page.

Note that each offer has an expiration date. Some offers will continue to be ‘Available’ after the expiry date and other offers will become ‘Unavailable’ as soon as the offer expires.

• Decide which offer you want to accept; then select Accept.

• If the offer is from a college that has enabled SIN collection, a SIN collection dialog box opens. Read the explanation provided, enter your SIN (if you choose to), and select Continue.

Note: If you make an error in your SIN, contact our Customer Contact Centre by phone or live chat for help.

• If you choose not to provide your SIN, select Proceed Without SIN.

• Select Yes to accept this offer.

Once you have accepted an offer, ontariocolleges.ca will send a confirmation email to the contact email address specified in your account profile.

Here’s an example of the confirmation email:

The other colleges you applied to will receive notification of your accepted offer.

Note: You cannot defer an offer of admission. If you want to take the program at a later date, you must create a new application.

What if I change my mind and want to accept a different offer?

If you applied to more than one program, you might receive more than one offer of admission.

You can accept only one offer at a time. However, if you change your mind or receive another offer that you prefer, you can change your acceptance, as long as the offer has not expired.

When you change your acceptance, the previous acceptance is automatically declined.

If you want to confirm an offer that has already expired, it might still be available. If so, you can confirm it. If the offer is not available, you can contact the college to let them know that you want to confirm the offer and ask if they can extend it.

Note: You can only confirm an offer once per day. If you have already confirmed an offer and change your mind later that day, you must wait until the next business day to confirm the new offer.

Declining Offers

If you accept one offer of admission, you don’t need to decline any other offers. However, if you decide not to attend any college program, you can decline all offers.

IMPORTANT: This will also decline any offer that you have already accepted.

• Log into your ontariocolleges.ca account.

• On Your Dashboard, in the toolbar, select Offers.

• Select Decline All Active Offers.