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The OUAC was founded in 1971 by the Council of Ontario Universities (formerly the Committee of Presidents of the Universities of Ontario) and the Ontario Universities' Council on Admissions. With the encouragement and support of the provincial government of that time and with the significant growth in the demand for post-secondary studies in Ontario, there was a desire to improve a variety of enrolment management and planning activities. The OUAC began partial operation in August 1971 with the fall of 1972 marking OUAC's first official processing cycle for first-year undergraduate applications.
The benefits of centralization were realized very quickly, resulting in the centralization of admissions processing work to many of Ontario's professional programs. The following lists their first official processing year: Some of the benefits still enjoyed to this day, include the ability to control multiple acceptances of offers of admission and to significantly reduce the amount of duplication and costs in processing multiple applications for admission. Over the years, the services of the OUAC have expanded in other areas including the production and distribution of numerous publications; the centralized distribution of application materials worldwide; the administration of various university and applicant surveys; the production of statistical reports used for government and institutional planning purposes; the electronic collection and distribution of university transcripts; and other related tasks.
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