What is academic streaming and how does it affect my residence preferences?
For the purposes of residence allocation, every first-year student is either a 4-stream or an 8-stream student. You are a 4-stream student if you are in a co-op program and your first work term is in January. Only students in some Engineering programs are 4-stream. All other faculties are 8-stream. You are an 8-stream student if you are in a regular program or a co-op program and your first work term is in May or later. Streaming is an important part of the residence allocation process as it allows us to place students together in communities that will remain together for both terms of first year – whether it’s fall and winter (8-stream) or fall and spring (4-stream).
