throwback thursday: a stressed high school student

helloo, i’m a gr 11 highschool student and i’m so stressed out abt uni applications 🙁 my question is, if i apply for early admissions (they only review gr11 marks for this i think) at uoft and don’t get in, will i still be able to reapply during general admissions that’ll include my gr 12 midterm marks? also, how likely is it for me to get accepted into uoft’s psych program if i do bad in gr 11 math and perhaps english? like around low to mid 80s. but my other grades are in the 90s (T^T)

hey there,

another prospective psych student? if i had a nickel for every psych student i got on here this month, i would… have two nickels.

i can almost feel the gr 11 student stress emanating off my screen. i was definitely there once, so don’t worry, i can help!

to answer your question, if you don’t make early admissions, you actually don’t have to do anything else to be reconsidered as your new grades become available. so long as you keep your application up to date as grades come out, there’s no need for you to reapply. and by “keep it up to date”, i remember having to upload my most recent transcript to OUAC as new grades came out (i think you’ll have to do this for early admissions, too).

so don’t worry, you have more than one chance! uoft will wait for additional results to become available from your grade 12 courses, and will make decisions based on that.

i see you mentioned your english and math marks. something to keep in mind is that psych requirements vary across the three campuses — UTM and UTSC will look at your grades in biology 12, calculus 12, and english 12, but the st. george campus only looks at the grades of calculus 12 and english 12. you can see an explanation of this in my previous post.

if you’re really worried about your grade 11 results, i can tell you that uoft puts more emphasis on grade 12 results when they look at your application. and honestly, if you only have two grades in the 80s, with the rest in the 90s, i think you’ll be fine! especially since these are grade 11 courses. however, i know it’s hard to not stress over your grades, no matter how well you’re doing, and especially at this stage of your life.

i hope this was helpful and that it relieved a bit of your stress! but if you’re still feeling nervous about this, i would tell you to reach out to a recruitment officer—they know everything about admissions (not that i don’t know everything, i swear i do).

over and out,

aska