{"id":12527,"date":"2014-11-11T14:57:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2019-08-04T23:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T03:59:14","slug":"a-little-scholarship-freak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12527","title":{"rendered":"a little scholarship freak-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hellooo I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS btw im in grade 12 applying to utsg ok so basically i was reading the faqs page of the scholarships site and there was a president`s entrance scholarship that offers 2k. one of the requirements was to have a 92+ admission average INCLUDING PREREQUISITES. this last part is what i am confused about. i read about this same scholarship in my 2014-2015 viewbook that i picked up from my guidance office and it said NOTHING about prerequisite courses needing to be 92+ in order to be considered for this schoalrship. this is of concern to me because although I am pretty confident that my admission avg \/ top 4U courses will average to 92+, my top 3U courses do not average to 92+. this is mainly because of my grade 11 math mark which was an 81 &#8211; i got at least a 90 in all of my other grade 11 courses. i would hate it if my grade 11 math mark jeopardized my chances of getting such a great scholarship. please clarify as to whether prerequisite grade 11 courses need to average to 92+ or not, i`m confused because it doesn`t say so in the viewbook!!<br \/>\nTHANK U xo<\/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>don&#8217;t get your <a href=\"http:\/\/babyblooze.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/lederhosen.jpg?w=570\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lederhosen in a twist<\/a> there, amigo. you&#8217;ve just had a little misunderstanding, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>they&#8217;re not talking about prereqs to grade 12 courses, they&#8217;re talking about your top 6 4U\/M courses including prereqs <em>for the stream you&#8217;re applying to<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>so if you&#8217;re applying to life sci, for example, it&#8217;ll be your top 6 Grade 12 courses including grade 12 english, calculus, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adm.utoronto.ca\/adm_pdf_files\/uab_st.george.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whatever else your program may require<\/a> (likely bio and chem). basically, they&#8217;re just referring to your admissions average.<\/p>\n<p>no grade 11 courses. so don&#8217;t worry,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/saladlady.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it&#8217;s all gonna be okay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellooo I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT SCHOLARSHIPS btw im in grade 12 applying to utsg ok so basically i was reading the faqs page of the scholarships site and there was a president`s entrance scholarship that offers 2k. one of the requirements was to have a 92+ admission average INCLUDING PREREQUISITES. this last part is what i am confused about. i read about this same scholarship in my 2014-2015 viewbook that i picked up from my guidance office and it said NOTHING about prerequisite courses needing to be 92+ in order to be considered for this schoalrship. this is of concern to me because although I am pretty confident that my admission avg \/ top 4U courses will average to 92+, my top 3U courses do not average to 92+. this is mainly because of my grade 11 math mark which was an 81 &#8211; i got at least a 90 in all of my other grade 11 courses. i would hate it if my grade 11 math mark jeopardized my chances of getting such a great scholarship. please clarify as to whether prerequisite grade 11 courses need to average to 92+ or not, i`m confused because it doesn`t say so in the viewbook!! THANK U xo \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, don&#8217;t get your lederhosen in a twist there, amigo. you&#8217;ve just had a little misunderstanding, that&#8217;s all. they&#8217;re not talking about prereqs to grade 12 courses, they&#8217;re talking about your top 6 4U\/M courses including prereqs for the stream you&#8217;re applying to. so if you&#8217;re applying to life sci, for example, it&#8217;ll be your top 6 Grade 12 courses including grade 12 english, calculus, and whatever else your program may require (likely bio and chem). basically, they&#8217;re just referring to your admissions average. no grade 11 courses. so don&#8217;t worry,\u00a0it&#8217;s all gonna be okay. 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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarshipsbursaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}