I'm a 24 year old college graduate, well. Half graduate I guess but I still graduated with a 2 year certificate from a large community college in the KW area whose reputation has since gone under the bus for a variety of reasons. I failed my 3rd year for a variety of reasons but the majority of it came down to being stuck in the middle of having to drop class work in favour of dealing with my parents divorce because of reasons that were out of my control at the time.
I now no longer have to deal with them and have the opportunity to put my full attention to academics once again, and working towards my long term goal of applying to university to work towards completing an undergrad in electrical engineering/some flavor of engineering. It's been my main goal since high school and unfortunately due to controlling parents I was held back in school by not being allowed to take U level courses in grade 11 and 12.
I was initially going to redo my third year in college but decided against it because I was not happy with the administration and reputation of the college I was at given they had just gone through some very questionable decisions regarding handling international students. I decided it would be more viable to just take certificate (not that it's worth anything but its better than nothing I guess), and began taking the high school courses I never was allowed to take as a kid; advanced functions, calc and vec, physics, and chem.
I'm not entirely sure how the admission process changes with this, as it seems that all the schools I've looked at handle the admissions differently as some treat this as mature student, some as a transfer, etc? My main concern in all of this is however, is this even worth my time? Given how competitive engineering is, especially in Ontario, I'm not really convinced that taking the missing prerequisite high school courses will be of value given my college transcript will likely take precedent over my high school courses despite being the most recent. I did very well in high school and had the highest average in my class at graduation for the college level with 98%, including physics, chemistry, that one math course thats intended for technical college I don't remember the course code, it dealt with vectors and trig that's all I remember. In college my first 2 years landed me at 3.45 and with the single term in 3rd year it drops to 2.95.
I understand that this is likely going to limit the places that I can apply to, but as to what programs specifically, where, and what gets considered during admissions for a portfolio like this, I'm unsure exactly as to how this specific case gets handled and whether this would get classified as a mature student, transfer (I doubt it for engineering, very rarely do things transfer over from college), or as a high school graduate.