rupchatt Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 If one is in 4th year, do they need every course to be 3rd year or higher? What if someone took all first courses to boost gpa. Many thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 If one is in 4th year, do they need every course to be 3rd year or higher? What if someone took all first courses to boost gpa. Many thanks, technically by the rules you could! and you would potentially get the GPA and look good on paper. ....however Ottawa has a holistic application system, which includes your transcript - someone potentially will look at that and when they do well things won't work out potentially as well as you like. There are usually safe guards to stop silly safe from happening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupchatt Posted May 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Is it the same rule for western, uoft or mcmaster or queens? do they care abt the level of the courses btw ottawa said this on their website so I am confused There is no special weight or preference given to any particular baccalaureate degree completed at a recognized university. The degree of difficulty of the program is not assessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 Is it the same rule for western, uoft or mcmaster or queens? do they care abt the level of the courses btw ottawa said this on their website so I am confused There is no special weight or preference given to any particular baccalaureate degree completed at a recognized university. The degree of difficulty of the program is not assessed. no that is the point of a holistic system - less focus on strict rules. It allows them to not be trapped by someone doing something that is inconsistent with their selection goals (say you just took 3 straight years of easy courses for instance as your sole goal). They don't have westerns strict rules, or Toronto's more loosely stated rules. that last line just means that you don't care what the degree is in, or really how challenging the overall program is. That being said if you are taking easy courses for the sake of it (and entire 3rd year of drop dead easy courses) then you probably could argue you are not following any program at all actually (no program has that). Splitting hairs I suppose - the point is Ottawa as a way of not being trapped if someone is doing something they don't really like but haven't formally outlawed. People apply to Ottawa all the time with really high GPAs and not get an interview. Unlike Western they are not bound by absolutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupchatt Posted May 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 ahh i see my program has all electives in last year..so i thought of taking bird courses to maximize my chances...in in health sci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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