Okay so im in grade 12 and have changed my courses around in order to get into psychology, but U of T is the only school that wants calc and i cannot describe to you the hatred i have for math! Plus it will definitely lower my average. Im really interested in psychology though and don’t want to compromise, is there any way i can get accepted into life science without calc but just take a calc course first year? If so please let me know if this is possible and how to do it!
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Heyo
So technically you can still take PSY100 and actually see if you like psychology without calculus. There are like 38837478340 high schoolers who think psych sounds soooooo~ interesting and actually see all the work behind it and change their mind, so you can definitely just take it for fun.
However, if you fully intend to make it your program of study, then stay in calculus dude. Why do you need calculus? Well, psychology is a science. Science involves numbers and statistics and all those horrifying things.
As for taking calculus or some equivalent at UofT, sadly all the 100-level math courses also require calculus. Naturally. So again, I’d say your best bet is to stay in calculus. I mean cheating in high school for your calculus credit will be a lot easier. 😉
…to be clear, that was a joke. Cheating is bad. Baaaad.
But good luck!
xoxo,
aska
3 Comments
Hailey
I did not take calculus in highschool and took psych first year and loved it! After that I wanted to major in it and all I had to do was a program U of T offers called PUMP in the summer (preparation for university math programs). You just need to pass this course, not even get a certain mark and you can get into the major. It basically gets you up to the equivalent of having grade 12 calculus, it is NOT a u of T credit. You don’t need to take anymore calculus courses at u of T after the PUMP program. Hopefully this helps!
Sue
Won’t it be easier just take calculus in high school. Really, it is not that hard, just study the formulas and plug in the numbers.
If you get into research and experiments, you need to know how to do math to interpret the data.
Steve
Psych at U of T is heavy on the sciences, so after first year, and especially starting in third, you have to get very comfortable reading Psych papers and Journal articles; you know, experiments and stuff. You have to be curious enough to dig into journal articles to answer those burning Psych questions in your mind.
You also have to be comfortable with math to understand stats and the data (as Sue wrote), although I haven’t seen any calculus yet.
Personally, I’m finding that if I want a good mark in Psych, I need to become a Psych geek and enjoy reading those journal articles. If I just sat back and expected to take it in from just text and lectures, I’d be wasting my time and wouldn’t get a decent mark.