fletch Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Hi, I know that UWO wants 3/5 of your courses to be of your year or higher,b ut do they have any particular preference for the other 2/5. I was owndering this because i am decinding between taking a 1st or 2nd year english credit. Would it look any better to take the 2nd year credit or am i just better off sticking with the 1st year course, although I hear the second yer course isnt that tough either. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chino Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 bump...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 if you go to UWO, you can actually consider 2nd year courses as 'senior level' credits. I don't think UWO actually asks for the 3/5 courses to be from your year of study (that's UofT, and they suggest, not require it). UWO asks that 1 of the 2 years that are used to meet their GPA cutoff be composed of senior level credits which are defined as 300 or 400 level from any school other than UWO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 What?! How come 2nd year courses are okay at UWO but you need 300 or 400 level courses for other schools? And how many of those 300 or 400 level courses do you need? Where is this information? The website does not mention that people from other undergrad schools other than UWO have a different requirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 there's a pdf somewhere on the UWO website about admissions... it's a few pages long, but if you read through it, you'll find out a lot of interesting information. I think that's where i found it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 there's a pdf somewhere on the UWO website about admissions... it's a few pages long, but if you read through it, you'll find out a lot of interesting information. I think that's where i found it. Yeah, Dante is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdoc Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 I've called the admissions office before and it kind of pissed me off because I ended up with two responses. The first answer was that you should be taking 60% of your course load in accordance with your year of study or courses that are "honours level" (3rd year and above). The second answer was that it didn't really matter... In my situation, it took me 6 years to finish my honours degree because I was in Co-op plus 1 extra year. In my last two years I took 40% second year courses and 60% 3rd + 4th year courses. I'm planning on applying to Western and Queen's as well. But my point is, try to stay away from 1st year courses. Although both responses from the admissions office were different there was one commonality...stay away from introductory first year courses in your senior years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djdoc Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Also as an aside, I did my undergrad @ UofT and it is unfair that @ UWO 200 lvl courses are considered valid...but I guess that's the way the system works.. I hated doing 3rd & 4th year seminar courses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Does anyone have this link? I'm going to e-mail them to confirm, because it's very confusing and I don't think this type of info should be hidden in some document on their website and not in their admissions guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinknoodle Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Does anyone have this link? I'm going to e-mail them to confirm, because it's very confusing and I don't think this type of info should be hidden in some document on their website and not in their admissions guide. I posted the information and link here: http://www.premed101.com/forums/showpost.php?p=201132&postcount=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Hi, blinknoodle, thanks for posting it. Unfortunately, I don't know if it's just me, but I'm still a bit confused. They're very explicit when defining the "senior" level courses for the "special year" that some people choose to do, but is this the same case for everyone else? i.e. this sentence throws me off, "Three full or equivalent senior courses (second year and above) must be included in at least one of the undergraduate years being used to determine compliance with established GPA cutoffs." Here, they don't define what they consider as "second year" UWO vs. all other undergrad universities or make any mention that second year is exclusive only for UWO. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med hopeful Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 I have emailed admissions, stated the univerisities I've gone to (not western), and they said 2nd year and up are senior... even at u of o, carleton etc... I really think we need to get to the bottom of this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Thank you med hopeful! You have given me hope =P Yeah, it would really be helpful if they were more explicit in that document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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