mango.tea Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Does admission care whether you take courses to boost your GPA? ie say you take a bird course elective and you get an A, or you take a difficult science elective and get a B+, will they consider the difficulty or is it really just down to the numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Does admission care whether you take courses to boost your GPA? ie say you take a bird course elective and you get an A, or you take a difficult science elective and get a B+, will they consider the difficulty or is it really just down to the numbers? Mostly down to numbers to a point. Schools sometimes have rules about the course level (western's 3/5 rules, TO expects reasonable progression of degree, Ottawa will look at your transcript). Most "bird" courses are early on as a rule. Take any given 3rd year course and stack it up against any other 3rd year course and basically they are the same. Many schools simply automate the entire GPA analysis. Bottom line is I would much rather have a high GPA on easier courses then lower GPA on harder ones. Any day of the week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future_doc Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 I considered it to be common sense to take interesting and easier electives to balance my harder core courses. I employed this strategy successfully throughout undergrad permitting me to obtain As in all courses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 I considered it to be common sense to take interesting and easier electives to balance my harder core courses. I employed this strategy successfully throughout undergrad permitting me to obtain As in all courses. sure but a true bird course is solely for the GPA in most cases - the course material can be no end of boring (and quite often unfortunately is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Squeeze Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 any info in regards to UBC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futureGP Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 I considered it to be common sense to take interesting and easier electives to balance my harder core courses. I employed this strategy successfully throughout undergrad permitting me to obtain As in all courses. 'easy' needs to be defined for me macro/microecons were easy for others not really find your bird courses not others! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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