Hi aska,
I am a Canadian Citizen currently going to school at an international school in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am a senior enrolled in the IB diploma and I have two questions for you.
On some of the other universities websites I found that you could get admission scholarships based on your predicted IB scores not just your %, is that true for UofT? I am predicted a 38 without bonus points, would that get me any admission scholarships?
I also have another question. For colleges I can’t quite seem to decide between Trinity and Victoria. I initially liked Trinity because of the prestige and academic environment, but is it too snobby? Do people there ave fun or is it all work no party? Is vic going to be more of a party/work place?
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hello there,
Uoft doesn’t seem to have any direct information about IB. Lucky for you, I am not just some Uoft peon. I am a MASTER DETECTIVE, and I have done a bit of sleuthing around.
The requirements for the President’s Entrance Scholarship (the highest value of admission scholarship you can get, at $2000) requires a minimum Grade 12 average of 92%. I’ve looked it up, and there is a handy conversion chart available for just your dilemma. The conversion chart just gives ranges, but it looks like a 38 in IB would work out to a 92%, which would mean that you qualify for that $2000. *pops party popper*
As to colleges, aska’s talked about them before. All I’ll say is that college reputations are really shadowy and honestly, I’m not totally convinced there’s not just like a handful of bored upper-year students every year who make stuff up about every college in order to confuse prospective students. To make an informed decision, I’d suggest looking at what the residences (Trin) (Vic), college buildings and college track one programs (Vic) (Trin) offer.
As to parties and snobbishness, I haven’t been to any Vic-associated (whatever that means???) parties so far, but that’s because I’m a boring old snob, not ’cause my college is. If you want to have fun, you’ll be able to regardless of where you go. I know lots of nice people and have friends from both colleges. So do some reading, and don’t listen to the stuff people make up – whatever you choose, you’ll be just fine 🙂
aska
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Has anybody ever tried to figure out how easy it is to get scholarships from each college? I have a 3.98 cGPA (sorry), and I don’t think UC has ever given me more than $300 a year, not counting my $1000 entrance scholarship (I had a 91 coming in, so I just missed the cut-off for the “guaranteed $2000”). Meanwhile, I hear that getting on the Dean’s List (GPA >= 3.5) in Woodsworth guarantees you $2000, or if you’re in Victoria College, ($1000). These are just things I’ve heard though, I’m not sure how accurate they are.
aska
hey, I think it depends on the scholarship. You can look up all the renewable admission scholarships for uc here (http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/university-college-admission-scholarships). I don’t know exactly which scholarship you got, so I can’t say how renewable it was (partially or fully), but all the colleges have similar lists, including Woodsworth and Vic, where you can look up all of the specifics 🙂 (I’m from Vic and I can say for sure that that the $1000 is a one-time thing that you get the first time your GPA is over a 3.50).