hey Aska,
I’ve been meaning to ask a question for a while but due to issues with open office I never could. I finally decided to use someone else’s computer and open office to ask a question. So my suggestion is maybe you could make it so that one did not need open office to ask a question. Maybe that’s already an option and I just never saw it I don’t know, just a suggestion.
anyway I’m a 3rd year poli sci student who is considering applying to American grad schools. I’ve been told a GPA from Canada and U of T is weighted differently by American schools sometimes. Is there any truth to this? If so how can I calculate my weighted “American” gpa?
Thanks
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Honey, what are you talking about? You don’t need OpenOffice to ask a question. In fact, you just need to email me at askastudent.innis@utoronto.ca. And don’t tell me you don’t have email, because if you’re a UofT student, you have to have a utoronto email.
Maybe you’ve confused OpenOffice with Microsoft Office Outlook . Microsoft Office Outlook is a personal information manager (so like an email manager). Sure, you can email me using Microsoft Outlook, but you can also just log onto webmail and email me from there.
Anyway, I wouldn’t worry about the GPA difference too much. Universities everywhere use different grading systems, and I’m not just talking about the US and Canadian grading systems. High schools across Canada use different grading systems, and you don’t see UofT rejecting someone from Manitoba just because we didn’t understand their grades. Even within Ontario, Universities everywhere use a different grade point scale UofT has a 4-point system, York has a 9-point system, McMaster has a 12-point system, Waterloo just uses your percentages, etc. etc. US Universities will take this into account when you apply for them; it might help your chances, or it might hurt them, but either way, there’s nothing much you can do about it. So I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.
And don’t forget, other important factors, such as extra-curricular activities, references, or personal statements, might play huge roles in admissions as well.