WATERLOO — The University of Waterloo feared students would not enrol in September during the COVID-19 pandemic. So it took an unusual step to avoid that.
It invited 6,783 extra students to enrol, increasing its admission offers by 23 per cent.
The gambit worked better than anticipated. The university is grappling with an admissions surge that upsized its first-year class by 1,058 students, swelling it to almost 7,800 and straining the campus.