stilladreamer Posted January 5, 2013 Report Posted January 5, 2013 Hi guys, I'm just finishing up a degree at Ryerson currently after having transferred credits from UofT and I've essentially only got about 2 more required courses in order to graduate. However, I'm considering doing an additional year to finish those 2 credits and squeeze out one more good year of GPA in order to apply to med schools such as Queen's, Western, and Dalhousie which give special consideration for best or last 2 years. My question is in regard to some of the course level requirements. I understand that Western requires that one year have 60% of courses be 2nd year courses and above whereas I believe Queen's requires the years to be 60% of courses to be corresponding to your year or higher (i.e. 3.0 out of 5.0 credits must be 3rd or 4th year courses for 3rd and 4th year students). I remember UofT had an easy system whereby course levels were designated by the number (i.e. BIO 100 vs BIO 200 vs BIO 300 vs BIO 400) or something to that effect. Ryerson, however, has no such system (http://www.ryerson.ca/calendar/2012-2013/pg1334.html). The higher numbers do not necessarily correspond to year and although distinguishing a 1st year course (i.e. no requirements) from the 2nd/3rd/4th year courses is easy enough, I have no idea how to distinguish between the 2nd/3rd/4th year courses for the purposes of Queen's admissions.
stilladreamer Posted January 7, 2013 Author Report Posted January 7, 2013 Please? Anybody...? I'm kind of in a bind because I'm trying to overload on courses (7-8 courses for the Winter term) specifically to offset the GPA for this year for Western. I'm in my 4th year and I haven't graduated yet (will likely come back for a 5th) but I'm worried the courses I'm overloading on are all second years or something to that effect. As far as I know, out of the top 10 courses or 5.0 credits that Western considers, more than half of the courses must be 3rd or 4th year. However, most of the Psych courses offered and that I'll be taking only have the first year psych as the requirement leading me to think that they will be considered 2nd year courses even though most say "Upper Liberal/Elective". So I'm worried I'll be overloading just to have it not count towards anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated as school starts this Friday for us! Thanks!
axialpac Posted January 7, 2013 Report Posted January 7, 2013 Hi guys, I'm just finishing up a degree at Ryerson currently after having transferred credits from UofT and I've essentially only got about 2 more required courses in order to graduate. However, I'm considering doing an additional year to finish those 2 credits and squeeze out one more good year of GPA in order to apply to med schools such as Queen's, Western, and Dalhousie which give special consideration for best or last 2 years. My question is in regard to some of the course level requirements. I understand that Western requires that one year have 60% of courses be 2nd year courses and above whereas I believe Queen's requires the years to be 60% of courses to be corresponding to your year or higher (i.e. 3.0 out of 5.0 credits must be 3rd or 4th year courses for 3rd and 4th year students). I remember UofT had an easy system whereby course levels were designated by the number (i.e. BIO 100 vs BIO 200 vs BIO 300 vs BIO 400) or something to that effect. Ryerson, however, has no such system (http://www.ryerson.ca/calendar/2012-2013/pg1334.html). The higher numbers do not necessarily correspond to year and although distinguishing a 1st year course (i.e. no requirements) from the 2nd/3rd/4th year courses is easy enough, I have no idea how to distinguish between the 2nd/3rd/4th year courses for the purposes of Queen's admissions. I don't recall Queens requiring you to take X number courses coinciding with the level of your undergraduate year. I checked their website and it says nothing about that either. Western requires that 60% (minimum) of your courses correspond to your year and 40% to be lower-level courses. Except, third and fourth level courses are considered equal. I think you might be confusing Queens with UofT? Although UofT doesn't have any such requirements, I think on their admissions website it says it's preferable that you take courses that correspond to your level. "Prospective applicants are encouraged to pursue challenging and rigourous courses of study, as this will not jeopardize their chance of successful application. Applicants are expected to have taken courses at a level corresponding with the year of their program. For example, a student who applies for admission while registered in the third year of undergraduate work should have at least three third-year or higher courses in his/her program. Applicants in the fourth year of their program should be enrolled in a majority of courses at the third- and fourth-year levels." Anyways to answer your question about distinguishing between second, third and fourth year courses--you could go and talk with an advisor at your school, they should be able to help.
NutritionRunner Posted January 7, 2013 Report Posted January 7, 2013 Anyways to answer your question about distinguishing between second, third and fourth year courses--you could go and talk with an advisor at your school, they should be able to help. Agreed. Do you have a program advisor or faculty advisor you could ask? If not, maybe ask the registrar?
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