Hi there,
I’m a first year student at U of T, and I had some questions about summer courses.
I was thinking about taking 4 credits this year and then doing 1 credit in the summer. I just want to do the best I can in my courses and I’m hoping spreading my credits out will help me. Is this an okay choice to make?
How do summer courses work? Do you have to let the school know you want to take summer courses, then they’ll give you a start time to choose courses? Are Y summer courses a lot of work since the whole year is condensed into a few months?
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hey there,
good news is you’re not breaking any rules by doing 1.0 of your first year credits in the summer, since 4.0 is the minimum you have to do in a year to be enrolled as a full-time student. so you are in the clear for that.
Whether or not it’s a good choice is really up to you, but I would say that doing your full 5.0 during the year might be a good idea – the sooner you get used to 5.0 a year, the better. Just get the experience over with man, so you’re ready. First year is like ripping off a band-aid. You just gotta go for it 100%.
That said, the summer courses aren’t impossible. They are compressed to a few months, like you said, but if you’re only doing one course, you can devote that extra time to keeping up with a slightly faster pace. You can dedicate your whole summer to that course! Isn’t that exciting?
Finally, you don’t have to do anything special or let the school know. Just enrol through ROSI when April rolls around (the course calendar should come out in March), exactly the way you did for fall and winter, and you’re all set! Uoft made something simple wow look at that how crazy.
aska