Important Note: It will take up to 10 business days after you have applied on OUAC and received your acknowledgement email before you will receive access to your supplementary application via email. Thank you for your patience! Be sure to check your “promotions”, “junk” and/or “spam” folders for this email.

Please contact the Recruitment Office by filling out this form.

*If you do not have your McMaster Student ID Number, please contact thinkeng@mcmaster.ca with your full name, program name, OUAC reference number, and email registered to OUAC.

Please contact Kira Talent directly by clicking the ‘Need help?’ button and choosing ‘Live Chat’ at the top right at any point in the process or you can email the Kira Talent Support Team directly at support@kiratalent.com.

Correct! If you have applied to more than one of our MacEng programs, you are only required to complete one application. The score you will receive will be used for admission purposes to any of the Faculty of Engineering programs you applied to.

For 101 Applicants: Your supplementary application status on your MOSAIC account/Student Centre should be updated 3-4 weeks after the deadline so the status of “notified” is normal! Once you complete your application, you should receive a confirmation email from Kira Talent stating that you have completed your assessment.

For 105 Applicants: Your supplementary application status on your Applicant Portal should be updated 3-4 weeks after the deadline, however, it might take longer. Once you complete your application, you should receive a confirmation email from Kira Talent stating that you have completed your assessment.

As long as you have received a confirmation email from Kira Talent OR you click on your initial invitation link and see 100% completed, you have nothing to worry about. Each supp app gets reviewed by at least two reviewers (sometimes more) before being sent to McMaster.

The supplementary application is a mandatory part of the admissions process for any of our Faculty of Engineering programs which includes Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Engineering 1 and/or Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences (iBioMed), as well as all 2nd-degree applicants. Only one application is required if you are applying to more than one of these programs.

The supplementary application will consist of 4 questions (3 video responses and 1 written response) and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Unlimited practice sessions are available for video responses, however, once you begin your formal video interview, you will only get one opportunity to answer each question.

For each video response: you will receive 1 minute to prepare your answer and 2 minutes to verbally respond to your question.
Written Response: you will have 10 minutes to complete your answer from when you receive the question.

How you respond to these questions is an opportunity for you to show us how you project yourself in person and in written formats under a time restraint. You will receive an invitation by email to access the supplementary application portal after completing your application through OUAC. Once you have access, you can practice as many times as you want before you start your actual interview. Please note that once you begin your actual interview, you will have 20 minutes to complete the entire assessment. 

There is a $50 fee for the supplementary application that you will pay for when applying through the Ontario University Application Centre (OUAC). Please note this fee will be called a “McMaster program fee.”

The supplementary application deadline for Fall 2023 applicants is Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 12 PM (noon) Eastern Time, unless otherwise noted in your supplemental application invitation email.

For each video response: you will receive 1 minute to prepare your answer and 2 minutes to verbally respond to your question.
For the written response: you will have 10 minutes to complete your answer from when you receive the question.

You are encouraged to take advantage of the unlimited practice opportunities to feel confident prior to doing the final assessment!

• What does being resourceful mean to you, and why is it important?
• Tell us about a time management strategy you used. Why does it work?
• How do you create a balance for yourself when working in a stressful environment­?
• Give us an example of a time you acted with integrity.

If you have applied to the Bachelor of Technology Degree Completion Program – you are not required to complete a supplementary application form.

To learn more about the Degree Completion Program, please see here.

We reached out to our incredible team of Student Ambassadors to pass along their advice on completing the supplementary application:

• Make a plan or a basic skeleton of how you’ll answer questions. Make sure to include what your topic is about, how it affected you and how you used your knowledge and experience to overcome the task/topic and what you learned from the experience. McMaster wants to get to know you, the person behind the grades/academics, so these supplementary applications are the gateway to knowing you!
• Make sure you’re in a well-lit area where you won’t be disturbed!
• Try not to stress, be yourself, they are just trying to get to know you! Don’t worry about what you think they want to hear, answer truthfully, your fresh ideas and approach will shine through!
• One surprising thing about my application was that it was quite easy to fill the time limit for the video answers. I was initially concerned that I would not have enough to say to fill up the time, however, the questions are great at simply bringing forth the experience and opinions you already have. I found that as long as I stayed true to my real self and experiences, the time was easy to fill.
• For any application you complete during your lifetime, it’s always best to start early. This is a good way to avoid deadline stress and provides extra time to prepare and review your application if needed. You got this!

Check out Julia’s experience with the supplementary application! Read about her tips here!