{"id":12505,"date":"2014-11-10T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2019-08-04T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T03:59:36","slug":"how-much-lwd-is-too-much-lwd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12505","title":{"rendered":"how much LWD is too much LWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Aska!<br \/>\nI was wondering if you know how LWDs affect chances of transferring, for example, from UTSG to UTM, UTSC to UTSG or etc.<br \/>\nThanks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>LWDs aren&#8217;t particularly harmful all on their own. if you have had a reasonably good time at whatever uoft campus you&#8217;re at, and there&#8217;s an LWD somewhere on that transcript, that&#8217;s not a big deal. the important thing is that you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/futurestudents\/admissions\/transfer#3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">competitive CGPA and AGPA, and you meet any program prerequisites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>however, if you have a whole bunch of LWDs and your marks aren&#8217;t that great, then what that indicates is that you just generally haven&#8217;t been having a great time of it academically. if that&#8217;s the case, then yeah, your application might be affected.<\/p>\n<p>however, if that is the case, you can always write a letter explaining any extenuating circumstances relating to your academics to the university. as long as the extenuating circumstances aren&#8217;t, like, you preferred to play video games instead of do your assignments. the university <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/notgoodenoughpoc.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doesn&#8217;t like that so much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Aska! I was wondering if you know how LWDs affect chances of transferring, for example, from UTSG to UTM, UTSC to UTSG or etc. Thanks! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, LWDs aren&#8217;t particularly harmful all on their own. if you have had a reasonably good time at whatever uoft campus you&#8217;re at, and there&#8217;s an LWD somewhere on that transcript, that&#8217;s not a big deal. the important thing is that you have a competitive CGPA and AGPA, and you meet any program prerequisites. however, if you have a whole bunch of LWDs and your marks aren&#8217;t that great, then what that indicates is that you just generally haven&#8217;t been having a great time of it academically. if that&#8217;s the case, then yeah, your application might be affected. however, if that is the case, you can always write a letter explaining any extenuating circumstances relating to your academics to the university. as long as the extenuating circumstances aren&#8217;t, like, you preferred to play video games instead of do your assignments. the university doesn&#8217;t like that so much. cheers, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-late-withdrawal","category-transferring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hey Aska! 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