I know you (usually) give witty and/or useless and acerbic responses. But bear w/ me on this one! I’d like to go to law school (not Dalhousie’s) and my grades are steady 70s. While I’ve done everything in my power to improve them (i.e. writing centres, editing, turning essays in on time etc.) they have simply not budged any higher. All the while I’m being told idiots from UTSC/UTM are going to get the same degree as I do at St. George for less effort and that UofT bell curves like it’s a fetish. So my question is this: What on earth could I possibly do (other than dropping out) to do better and stay sane? MERCI BEAUCOUP!
As someone contemplating a career in law, you really do a lousy job at manipulating words for your own advantage… perhaps your future lie in some other discipline, which doesn’t involve such demanding skills such as tact (*** SNAP *** ).
I don’t know if I can muster any of my useless advice to address your little entanglement, which, and that may be the source of your repellent exposition, is sort of unsolvable. Your point about the different grading system at the suburban campuses may be valid, but then again how does that help you (it doesn’t). So there are three things you can do:
a. Go to Dalhousie
b. Give up your law school aspirations, or at least explore other career possibilities.
c. Continue at UofT, and try (harder) to improve your average, coz your steady 70s are gonna steadily eradicate any chance of admittance into law school. If you feel that St. George will never provide you with an opportunity to improve your GPA, go take some courses at UTM/UTSC- you can take up to 10 credits, and if those fit your program and are transferable, you might benefit from that. Not that your benefit is my concern.
DE RIEN…
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ali
That was a horrible answer Aska! This person sounds like he/she is in genuine need of good and sound advice, you’ve failed us all.
nitika
what BS, classes are not easier at utm, this sort of mentality is disgusting!
Anonymous
lol i’ve taken a classes at utsc, and my grades were, on average, in the same ballpark range as they were from st george. some courses are harder, some will be easier, there’s no definite trend.
Anonymous
lulz like totes yo. utm and utsc are like. totes on par with like. st. george.
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b
is dalhousie considered a crap school for law?
Roo
I have a friend whose average (in high school) is 10% lower than mine yet she got 100% clear admission to Social Sciences at UTM. She’s majoring into business/commerce.
I applied to Social Sciences as well (for Sociology) at St George and I got the 100% clear admission earlier. I’m majoring in Sociology.
How is it that my friend, who has never taken any socio courses, able to get clear admission into UTM, yet alternative-program’d at UTSC, and rejected by UTSG. This just tells me that UTSG > UTSC > UTM.
So yeah. :/ I think that St George is the better one, and its rep is a lot more… polished and refined than the other two.
Though I did hear that UTSC is starting to do the 20-credit = graduate concept, so that it will be “as awesome” as UTSG.
Leanne
Dude you are the intellectually challenged person here, not the students at UTM. If you were competent, you would go to UTM where according to you, its easier (and you get the same undistinguished degree.)
If you have a problem with that go to York/Ryerson, they’ll love a snob like you =P
I had various papers graded at UTM receiving 76, 70, and 74….BUT when similar papers were graded at St. George I received a 10-15% increase in the grades. SOOOOO Shut up. Next time, base your opinions on primary experience…not rumors that UTM/UTSC are easier.
Student
MOST UTM and UTSC courses are easier, Leanne. You may have had tough courses. They’re easier because of weaker competition. Period.