Dear Aska!
Omagahhh, I just finished my first year and its not looking great :(!
3.0 credits finished with a cGPA of 2.7ish.. I LWD’d a physics course in the first term, and finished my first year with a whooping 3.0 credits. I’m scared about course enrollments next year, wanted to take some mathy courses but I’m afraid if its bounded by the subject POSts and all.. Whats the deal with subject POSts? I’m only ‘active’ on one major (math), wanted to do double major with CS but it fell under 1S which requires me to finish atleast 4.0 credits. Aska what should I do???! :'( Summer school = financially heavy, or should I just continue uni next year and apply for the next wave of POSts?
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You sneaky little devil you,
You actually need 4.0 FCE to apply for any subject POSts. Math is a subject 1 so you are just automatically put into it if you apply. Although you are currently active in the POSt they will most likely do a “cleaning sweep” and realize you don’t have enough credits to be in the major. A 2.7 is actually pretty darn good for first year and bundles of students LWD. You are now experiencing the downfall, which is not being able to get into your Subject POSts.
You could take a credit in summer school, and OSAP can help with the finances, and then apply for the POSts in the 2nd round of applications. The other option is to just not have POSts in your second year. This won’t affect you for Math Major because they don’t seem to have priority listings for the courses (if they even kick you out of the major). CS does, however,?give priority to those enrolled in the POSts. This just means you won’t really be able to start on that major until your 3rd year or you may get lucky and get into the courses after the priority time is over.
In the long run, the worse that might happen is you having to stay a little longer than your 4 years to finish up your degree, but what’s an extra semester anyways.
hmmm … actually an afterthought here… you could in your 2nd year focus on the Math Major if the CS courses remain full after the priority list is lifted, and then in your 3rd year focus on just CS courses and hopefully things will be balanced for 4th year. At some point though you will have to take an extra couple courses in the summer or in a 5th year.
I’m getting rambley like the guy in the question below … oooh how contagious it is.
forever with cold hands and a warm heart,
aska