Hi,
I’m pretty set on doing a major in Psychology – but how likely is it that I will get into psychology??I know they say the average to get in is 75% in psy100, but how accurate is that?
Thanks!
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hey there,
now children, here we see a question that sharply contrasts with the one below it, in that it provides almost no contextual information for aska to work with. there are a lot of mysteries here. is the askee a first year student? are they talking about the major only? their question says they’re set on doing a major, but the subject line of their e-mail said “Majors and Minor.”
i don’t mean to be catty, dear askee. it’s just that it’s gonna be tough for me to be very helpful if i don’t know a lot of this information. fortunately for you, aska is more or less a wizard when it comes to deciphering these kinds of mysteries. so let’s work some magic.
i’m gonna assume you’re a first year student. if you’re not, then you just need to have completed PSY100. if you are in first year though, you need to have completed PSY100 with AT LEAST a 75%. that’s an important distinction. it’s not an average of 75% for people who are accepted. you need to have a 75% to be considered – but how high above that you need to get to actually be accepted depends on the competition in your year, i.e. how many other people have applied and what they got in PSY100. as for how many people applied, the school doesn’t publish those numbers, but you can take a look at how many other questions about psychology i’ve answered to try and get a gist of it. same thing goes for the minor, except the cut-off is 73%, not 75%.
i wish i could give you some more precise numbers as to how likely you are to get in, but unfortunately, they just don’t tell me that kinda stuff. just do as well as you can and prepare a backup in case it doesn’t work out.
good luck,
aska
P.S. i get a lot of questions about psych and i am running out of clever title ideas that relate to psychology. please consider this a formal invitation to send me psychology-related punny titles at askastudent ( . ) innis ( at ) utoronto ( . ) ca. because aska’s a collaborative experience. yeah.