Review and Change Your Online Application – Tutorial (Video Transcript – Text Only)

Welcome, this video will show you how to review and/or change your completed application. Once you have applied to an Ontario university, you can access your online application to make any necessary changes, and to accept or decline university offers of admission. To access your submitted application, go to the “Current Ontario Secondary School Students (OUAC 101)” website – the same website that you used to access the online application: www.ouac.on.ca/ouac-101/. Click the “101 Online Application” link.

In this application, you can:

• pay your application fee, if you have not already done so; (Please note: It will take one business day to process your payment before you can access your application.)
• review all of the application information you provided to the OUAC;
• add, delete or change your university or program choices;
• make changes to your personal or address information; and
• respond to university offers of admission.

You can access your application throughout the application period to change your application information including your university program choices. However, keep in mind, some universities may not accept changes past a certain date: check the university’s own information to determine if they have any program-specific deadlines.

Now, to access your application, click “Log in”. Enter your OUAC Reference Number in the section called “Already submitted your application?”. If you were an online applicant, you would have received this number on the last screen of your submitted application. You would have also received an Acknowledgement Email immediately after you initially submitted your application. This email includes your OUAC reference number.

Next, enter your PIN/Password in the second box. The PIN is the same one that was provided in the Application Access Code Letter that you received from your guidance counsellor and that you used to submit your application. Remember that your PIN/Password is case sensitive and must be entered exactly as it appears on your letter. If you have misplaced your OUAC Reference Number and/or PIN, please see your guidance office. Read the “statement of understanding”, check the box, and then click “Log in now”.

If you want to change your PIN to a personal password, just click the “Account” link in the left navigation bar.

To review and/or change your application, click on any of the application links. You can go to any section of the application by using these menu buttons at the top of the page.

It is important to note that: If you make any changes to your application that requires payment, you must pay by credit card, using VISA, MasterCard or American Express. If you wish to pay by cheque or money order, you cannot make your changes online: you must print and complete this PDF form, and mail it, along with your cheque or money order, to the OUAC.

If you have any questions at any point, you can use the “Help” link located on the top right side of each section of the application.

In the Choices/Offers section, you can add or delete programs, or change the details of programs that you have applied to. To delete a choice, click the “Delete” link in the column beside the choice. To change details of an existing choice, click the “Change” link to the right of the choice and make the necessary changes. For an existing program choice, you may change only the details that you initially specified.

To change the program code or the university, you must delete the existing choice and then add the new choice using the “Add new program” link. Also, remember that if you add more program choices, you may have to pay additional fees. Visit www.ouac.on.ca/101-fees/ for a summary of application fees.

If you have been offered admission to a program or if you have accepted a university offer of admission, you will not be able to change the program details. Please contact the university for further instructions.

In this section you can see whether you have received any university offers of admission. University offers of admission will be displayed in the “Admission Decision” column. To view the details of an offer and/or to respond to an offer, click the “Offer” or “Alternate Offer” link in the “Admission Decision” column. You will then see an option to accept or, if applicable, an option to decline the offer.

For detailed information about responding to offers of admission, view the video tutorial for online responses by clicking the link within this section or consult the offers of admission help link. After responding to an offer, you will be taken back to the “Choices/Offers” page where you will see your response listed as “Unsubmitted” in the “Applicant Response” column. If you have no further changes to your application information, and are ready to submit your response, you can do so by clicking on one of these three buttons.

If you have further information to change, you may do so by going to the applicable section.

• In the Order Choices section, you can change the order of your program
  selections.
• In the Personal Information section, you can revise your personal details.
• In the Address Information section, you can revise your mailing address and email. It is important that you keep your email up-to-date throughout the application process. Email is the primary mode of communication between the OUAC, the universities and the applicants.
• In the Additional Questions section, you can change your answers to the application questions.
  In each of these sections, remember to click “Continue”, at the bottom of the page. Clicking this button will not submit your changes, but will record them to the list of changes that you have made during this session.
• In the next section, you can view your Academic Information, which has been provided by your secondary school. If you see anything that is incorrect, make a note of it, and then inform your guidance counsellor – they will update the information for you.

Submitting Your Changes

In order to save any of your changes, in any section, you must complete the “Submit” process. There are three steps.

When you click “Submit”, you will see all the changes that you have made to your application during this session. Any responses or changes will be highlighted in red. If you have added new choices, the fees owed will also be listed. These responses and changes will be saved and sent to the universities only when you complete the submission process.

1. Review all the information for accuracy. Go back and change any incorrect information, as necessary. You can go back to any section of your application at any point. Please note: If you exit your application without completing the “Submit” process, your changes will not be saved.
2. Once you are satisfied with your changes and responses, scroll to the bottom of the screen, and click the “I verify that the information above is correct as shown” button. If payment is required for any of your program changes, the payment screen will display.
3. Read and understand the conditions of the “Applicant’s Declaration”. After reading the declaration, click “I Agree” to finish the submission process.

When you have completed all of these steps, you will immediately receive a single confirmation number for all submitted changes and/or responses to offers of admission made within this session. Below the confirmation number, you will see a summary of all your changes and/or responses. Print this page for your records.

If you do not receive a confirmation number, your changes and/or responses have not been saved and submitted to the OUAC. Please try again.

After submitting your changes, you will be locked out of your account for one business day. It is recommended that you log back in to your account after that time, to ensure that your responses and changes have been made to your application.

Now you have successfully reviewed and/or changed your application and/or responded to university offers of admission. Thank you for using the 101 Online Application.