biochem4 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I just saw this requirement on UOttawa’s website. What’s the best option for pre-reqs below B? And is it still considered full time studies if you have 5 courses in a term and 3 in the other (24 creds total)? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiacArrhythmia Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 2 hours ago, biochem4 said: I just saw this requirement on UOttawa’s website. What’s the best option for pre-reqs below B? And is it still considered full time studies if you have 5 courses in a term and 3 in the other (24 creds total)? thanks! Best to ask Ottawa about this because we don’t really have much information on it besides that there is prerequisites implemented next cycle. How I see it is that, if the prerequisite course you want to use is in biology or humanities, then the solution is simple, take another course that replace the one that is below B to satisfies the requisite. However, it gets trickier if it was a chemistry course since there’s only so many combinations you can use. You can either retake the chemistry course or depending on the situstion use a different chemistry prerequisite combination. However, you should ask how they will look at both course if you decide to repeat a course. To be considered for Ottawa’s wGPA you need to have minimum 4 on campus lectures per semester to be eligible, given that the extra credits come from another year or a summer semester. This really isn’t explicit on their website, but if you email admissions, they will likely tell you the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biochem4 Posted March 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, CardiacArrhythmia said: Best to ask Ottawa about this because we don’t really have much information on it besides that there is prerequisites implemented next cycle. How I see it is that, if the prerequisite course you want to use is in biology or humanities, then the solution is simple, take another course that replace the one that is below B to satisfies the requisite. However, it gets trickier if it was a chemistry course since there’s only so many combinations you can use. You can either retake the chemistry course or depending on the situstion use a different chemistry prerequisite combination. However, you should ask how they will look at both course if you decide to repeat a course. To be considered for Ottawa’s wGPA you need to have minimum 4 on campus lectures per semester to be eligible, given that the extra credits come from another year or a summer semester. This really isn’t explicit on their website, but if you email admissions, they tell you the same thing. I'm surprised. :$ I thought full-time status is determined after the school year (overall credits).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiacArrhythmia Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, biochem4 said: I'm surprised. :$ I thought full-time status is determined after the school year (overall credits).... Yeah that’s at other universities. Ottawa has a weird way of doing things. it’s best that they take out the jargon on their websites and explicitly state things. Now, you can double check with admissions since rules can change on an annual basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biochem4 Posted March 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 23 minutes ago, CardiacArrhythmia said: Yeah that’s at other universities. Ottawa has a weird way of doing things. it’s best that they take out the jargon on their websites and explicitly state things. Now, you can double check with admissions since rules can change on an annual basis. Should a full-year course for their pre-reqs be in the same year (e.g. one for fall, one for winter or two in one term)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiacArrhythmia Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, biochem4 said: Should a full-year course for their pre-reqs be in the same year (e.g. one for fall, one for winter or two in one term)? it wouldn't matter when the prerequisites were taken, since they'll be assessing them separately. (Note: 2nd FAQ https://med.uottawa.ca/undergraduate/admissions/faq) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biochem4 Posted March 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 9 minutes ago, CardiacArrhythmia said: it wouldn't matter when the prerequisites were taken, since they'll be assessing them separately. (Note: 2nd FAQ https://med.uottawa.ca/undergraduate/admissions/faq) I'm also confused about their statement that they don't assess the difficulty of program and there is no preference to such but will assess the breadth and/or difficulty of courses taken. What does this mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 1 hour ago, biochem4 said: I'm also confused about their statement that they don't assess the difficulty of program and there is no preference to such but will assess the breadth and/or difficulty of courses taken. What does this mean? Sounds like if you, for example, did an Engineering degree, that's not going to get you an automatic boost, however if they look at your degree and it was all ENG courses (and lots of upper year ones) then that would boost you. You could do a chemistry degree and do the bare minimum of upper year chem courses and the rest are like 1st year intro courses and that would not be as difficult as what the ENG student did by taking mostly upper year ENG courses. That's my assumption about their reasoning. The breadth element would be looking at if you followed curiosities in other disciplines and did well I am guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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