What happens if you have more than 5 courses per year?

[whiteteeth]

If you have more than 5 courses per year (ie 6 or 7 full year courses), would UWO or UT take best 5/(6 or 7) for grading purposes?

or would they take into account all the courses taken per year?

[ArchEnemy]

If you have more than 5 courses per year (ie 6 or 7 full year courses), would UWO or UT take best 5/(6 or 7) for grading purposes?

or would they take into account all the courses taken per year?

 

All courses.

[whiteteeth]

Hmm doesn't sound fair at all.

 

Some university programs require you to take more than 5 full year courses per year.

 

As you all know, taking more than 5 courses and trying to maintain a good grade is very hard.

 

My grade would be significantly higher if they would look at best 5 or give some sort of a bonus point.

 

I will send off an email to see if the admission committee can look into this issue.

[phy241]

I asked them the same question because I took 11 courses in a year, they said you get no bonus for taking additional courses as they only require 5 credits in a year, taking any additional courses is your own choice. Also, they won't drop your lowest grade.

[aaronjw]

Life isnt fair.

 

Is it fair that those who take Engineering are evaluated the same as those doing a history degree? no but oh well.

 

Deal with it, change your program or whine about the unfairness of a system that you knew (or should have known) the rules to before you began.

 

But ya, go ahead and contact them to see if they can fix it for you lol

 

 

Hmm doesn't sound fair at all.

 

Some university programs require you to take more than 5 full year courses per year.

 

As you all know, taking more than 5 courses and trying to maintain a good grade is very hard.

 

My grade would be significantly higher if they would look at best 5 or give some sort of a bonus point.

 

I will send off an email to see if the admission committee can look into this issue.

[zap_man99]

not gonna lie, but this is why i would never suggest to anyone that a good route to get into dent/med is through eng... but i do know that if you switch to sciences at U of A (at least after year 1) you get a GPA boost of like .3? But i doubt that the selection committee cares.

[ArchEnemy]

Hmm doesn't sound fair at all.

 

Some university programs require you to take more than 5 full year courses per year.

 

As you all know, taking more than 5 courses and trying to maintain a good grade is very hard.

 

My grade would be significantly higher if they would look at best 5 or give some sort of a bonus point.

 

I will send off an email to see if the admission committee can look into this issue.

 

+1 to what what aaronjw said.

 

Life is NEVER fair. People in 3rd world countries are barely able feed themselves, while here we have ignorant 'kids' rioting over a HOCKEY GAME and wasting millions of dollars?

 

4.0 at Lakehead = 4.0 at UofT = 4.0 at Harvard. Though I'm sure some schools will give you ambiguous answers such as "We will take into account how rigorous your program of study is" to pacify you

[whiteteeth]

Life isnt fair.

 

Is it fair that those who take Engineering are evaluated the same as those doing a history degree? no but oh well.

 

Deal with it, change your program or whine about the unfairness of a system that you knew (or should have known) the rules to before you began.

 

But ya, go ahead and contact them to see if they can fix it for you lol

 

 

or one can grow some balls and advocate for change?

 

I don't think admission system is fixed and not susceptible to change.

 

There's already a penalty and bonus system in place (example: bonus point for masters/bachelor's degree & penalty for less than 5.0).

[shikimate]

or one can grow some balls and advocate for change?

 

I don't think admission system is fixed and not susceptible to change.

 

There's already a penalty and bonus system in place (example: bonus point for masters/bachelor's degree & penalty for less than 5.0).

 

It's true that changes can and maybe should occur in admission, but you have to remember med schools are run by physicians and administrators, not pre-med students. At best the med student themselves may have limited influence, but med students are in already, so there's really no incentive for anybody here (other than the thousands of premeds) to push for dramatic change.

[rmorelan]

what is odd about that is for medicine they DO count only their best 5.0 credits.

[uoftgunner]

if i recall correctly, UT looks at ALL your grades but UWO only looks at your best 5.0... someone correct me if i m wrong...

[hchc]

Dunno how it works at U of T, but, U of M takes the years that have fulfilled the minimum number of hours to qualify as full year and calculates based on that. It doesn't matter if you took 30 credit hours or 42 they just look at the GPA of that year and use it in the calculation. Also the selection committee is completely objective, they look at your scores in the three categories interview, gpa, dat and that's it, nobody even knows your name or student number.