That's strange. Since posting this question I did speak to someone at Nipissing and they said that courses taken this Fall will be considered in your calculation. Just not courses taken in the Winter term because the deadline to apply is February 1 and they calculate averages for consideration before Winter grades are submitted. I wonder why they told you August 2016, unless you told them you weren't planning on taking courses this Fall? My cGPA isn't great but Nipissing looks at best 10 FCE. Without this Fall I'd have like a 76, but with it I'll have around 80 or more depending on how they convert my school's letter grades into percentage. I'm asking them about that now. I think people have been accepted with that average though, so I'm more so worried about the other requirements, since acceptances aren't as clear cut at Nipissing.