hey aska!
I’m nearing the end of my second semester in socsci, having been a transfer?student from art fundamentals at sheridan college, but I’m hating it. I?know I missed the deadline to apply to transfer to visual studies at u of?t, but as the Daniels site is a little confusing, I was hoping you could?help me answer a few questions!
The reason I’m thinking of transferring to Daniels after second year of?socsci is because A. I’m miserable in socsci, and it’s reflected in my?grades right now, and B. currently, my top art school (york’s BDes)?wouldn’t take me with my u of t grades.
I know most art programs base a good like, 80 percent of the application on?the portfolio, but I get the feeling that doesn’t ring true for U of T. Am?I right?
I’ll end this semester with about 3.0 or 4.0 credits. If I take “easier”?classes next year to bring my GPA up while still staying under 10.0 credits?to transfer, will that help?
Also, I’m trying to gauge the likelihood that I’ll get some of my credits?from Sheridan College transferred, like a first year 2D design, or a life?drawing class?
Ps. What’s with this “One Idea” thing? Is it the same every year, like?should I be preparing my answer to this years question so I’ve got it ready?when I apply to transfer?
Wow this was longer than expected, sorry and thanks for any help!
– sad and covered in paint
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hey there,
i feel like one day daniels is gonna up and revamp their whole website and it’s gonna be the best, most user-friendly website in all of uoft, and all these posts throwing shade at it are gonna make no sense. i await that day patiently.
firstly: uoft doesn’t ask for a portfolio. they base admission on your CGPA and most recent AGPA, and your One Idea supplementary application. the One Idea application is not a portfolio (quote: “The One Idea supplementary application is not a portfolio“), and you shouldn’t treat it as such. it is very much an essay used to assess your?potential for success in the daniels program, rather than a measure of how successful you’ve already been.
as far as i’m concerned, there are no “easier” or “harder” classes, per se. if you pick classes where you think you’ll do well, and then you?do do well (don’t you dare laugh that i just said ‘do do’), well that can only help your chances. just as long as you make sure to stay under the 10.0 credit mark, you should be fine. if you have any questions about how your uoft credits will transfer over from one faculty to another, you can look here.
if you’d like to know what transfer credit you’re likely to get for your sheridan courses, transfer explorer is the place to go. it may just be my favourite uoft website in the ‘explorer’ suite (no shade, @degree explorer). you just type in your sheridan courses, and it spits out any possible transfer credits at uoft. just remember, it’s not a guarantee, just a prediction of the most likely outcome.
i feel like the One Idea question is the same every?year, but to be honest with you i haven’t been paying enough attention to the daniels applications to be certain. what i would do is start preparing your answer when?the next application cycle opens, probably around October next year. definitely do not leave it to the last minute like this person.
best of luck with your application!
aska