In alignment with the the Student Interest Program Policy (P100), each applicant must submit an Expression of Interest as part of their Central Student Interest Program application:
6.3.5 Each type of TDSB Centralized programs/schools will have standard interest-based admissions processes established by the Board, which include a demonstration of active interest or passion, where applicable. Students demonstrating interest or passion, will be eligible for the random selection process when demand exceeds available space.
The Expression of Interest must make reference to or be directly connected to the Central Student Interest Program and the type of program(s) to which you have applied, and must be written/created by the STUDENT applicant.
- If you are applying to 2 different types of programs for your primary and alternate choices, your Expression of Interest may focus only on your primary choice program type, or you may opt to weave both interests into the same Expression of Interest. Please do not submit two different expressions of interest.
- Please do not send Expressions of Interest to the requested school(s).
Please see possible options and samples below for the Expression of Interest.
- Written submissions (Examples: blog, essay, opinion piece, poem, short story, script, etc.) that refers to the program(s) OR
- Text-based submissions (Examples: PowerPoint, Canva, Mindmap, etc.) OR
- Audio or video submissions contain student performance that is connected to the program(s) OR
- Photographs/ digital versions of student artwork or projects accompanied by a brief description of the work and/or its meaning.
Submissions of photographs of student art, or videos of a performance must be accompanied by a written component, describing the work and/or its meaning. Where possible, please merge to photographs and description(s) into a single document as modeled in the samples.
Accepted file formats include: DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, RTF, XLS, XLSX, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG or a link to an accessible, shared video/audio file. One uploaded PDF file is the preferred submission format.
To learn more about how to properly share a Google Document, please watch our demonstration video.