Guest linkinpark Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peachy Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Huh? I don't really understand what you mean. There are certainly York students who manage to get 8.0 / 9.0 GPA's, so I find it highly unlikely that this scenario is "literally impossible". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest codinator Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 with over 1000 students at york gektting over a 3.8, the MAJORITY in the faculty of science, it surely isn't impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest linkinpark Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 i dont understand are you saying that 1000 / 2000 people get 8.0 GPAs? That means I have to get A in every single course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest codinator Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 in all of york, around 1000 have an A. i.e. 1000/40,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marbledust Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 cod where do you get your stats from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest codinator Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 don't worry marble, i got the inside scoop :rollin essentially, york gives out a continuing scholarship to anyone who has a gpa of 8.0/9.0 in any one year. according to york, a little over 1000 students got a continuing scholarship this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endingsoon Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 Uhmm....averaging 80% is not crazy...so you need all As? I know lots of people that had all As in undergrad. Its not impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marbledust Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 don't worry marble, i got the inside scoop Ah okay. That makes me feel better :lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest jehohertz Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 I think you mean you are finding it is impossible for _YOU_ to get an 80% avg at York. Alot of people are doing it so it is not impossible. It just means if you can't you have to work harder, find news ways of studying, etc. Fine-tune your academic life so to speak. Along the same lines when I was temping at a warehouse a number of years ago two individuals were taking about how the last years of college and university (Conestoga and Waterloo if memory serves) were tricks because there was no way you could pass them. Odd because I know college graduates and people in university graduate programs but whatever little lies they want to tell themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joonboy Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 i got the inside scoop Hi, codinator~ I have a question for you 'cause you seem to know York very well. I am interested in York U Schulich School of Business undergraduate program, and I was wondering what the average mark should be to get in without worrying too much. Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest codinator Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 actually, i don't know york that well, someone informed me of the percentage of students who got over 80%. however, i believe the average to get into schulich is somewhere in the high 80s/low 90s. if you have a 90% average, i don't think you should worry. i know someone who got in with an 86%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PhantomPhoenix Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 What do u mean impossible? I know a few people from York who have A+/A averages You shouldn't look at the York scale...check the OMSAS scale. In every class, there are usually always several people who get an A....welcome to the world of competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PhantomPhoenix Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 And those stats that half the students get an A....is just wrong. The TA's post the marks outside their door on sheets....you just have to walk through a hall of offices and look at the posted marks to see that the claim that half get an A is so wrong. Class averages have to be in a certain range. The averages are usually around high 60. Smaller classes I believe are allowed to have low 70 averages but the prof has to fill out a report on why the marks were high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peachy Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Well, this whole discussion is rather silly and pointless, but just for the sake of it... I don't think that anyone claimed that half of the students at York get an 8.0. The statistic that Cod quoted was university-wide. In any case, if the OP is all that curious, the Science website has a link to their "awards evening" which lists all the people on the Dean's honour roll, and you can count them. Class averages have to be in a certain range. The averages are usually around high 60. Smaller classes I believe are allowed to have low 70 averages but the prof has to fill out a report on why the marks were high.Actually, I think it's a straight cutoff where small classes don't have any grade distribution requirements; the prof doesn't have to write any note. Large classes, on the other hand, do have requirements, of the form, iirc, that no more than a certain % of students can get E/F's, and no more than a certain % of students can get A/A+'s. The requirements aren't (usually) enforced as changing grades though--they're there so that a committee can monitor things from year to year to make sure that certain profs/classes aren't repeat offenders. That applies to Science; other faculties may have different regulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PhantomPhoenix Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 Actually there are also requirements for small classes, a friend of my family is a prof there and he had to tell his TA to drop the class one letter grade across the board before he handed back some major projects. Class size was 50 and it was a 3rd yr course. Discrepancies are only really allowed in 4th yr courses because it is easy for them to argue that the class is full of honour students who supposedly are better students. There is apparently little control over the marks for honour papers. The Kin department last year had to raise the average in a class because there weren't many A's and no A+ at all. That was a huge class though. There was also a class in the Arts I forget which one, which saw there marks dropped a number of percentage points...there were alot of complaints by the class as it was written about in those campus papers. Apparently some student organizations made alot of noise about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest codinator Posted January 28, 2005 Report Share Posted January 28, 2005 peach is correct. i never said half the students at york got an A average. according to the stats i was given, 1000 undergraduates got a york continuing scholarship. in order to get this scholarship, one must have a gpa of 8.0/9.0, which is in an A average. i believe there are ~30,000-40,000 undergraduates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peachy Posted January 29, 2005 Report Share Posted January 29, 2005 Yeah, 50 isn't "small" (the number is 20-30ish, iirc), and Arts definitely works differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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