{"id":12596,"date":"2014-11-25T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2019-08-04T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T03:55:58","slug":"ahhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=12596","title":{"rendered":"(AHHH)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska! So I have a question about U courses and UC or M courses. I already sent in my application for humanities at St george(AHHH) and out of my top 6 that I want to use 2 are UC\/M courses(just to clarify uc and m are the same thing). My other two U courses are math and I DO NOT WANT TO USE THOSE IN MY TOP 6. Does U of t give preference to students who have their top 6 of all U courses? Or will they include my Maths in my top 6 because they are U?<\/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>ah, an admissions freakout! i haven&#8217;t seen one of these in a while. it doesn&#8217;t truly feel like the holiday season until grade 12&#8217;s are <a href=\"http:\/\/stream1.gifsoup.com\/view1\/1513211\/rasputin-o.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">losing their heads<\/a> about uni admissions, you know?<\/p>\n<p>anyway, fortunately for you, your question has <a href=\"http:\/\/33.media.tumblr.com\/9efa529a898224d8d39ef3305d79a8b0\/tumblr_ncmob3H8fd1rnofh5o4_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a happy ending<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>the problem here is that you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the word &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mb2eb1gLMH1r3yxp8o1_500.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top<\/a>.&#8217; let&#8217;s break this down semantically, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>if the university says &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adm.utoronto.ca\/admissions\/?selections.domain=ADM&amp;selections.name=SUBPAGE1&amp;selections%5B%5D=2A222222222222222222222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=222A2222222222222222222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=222222222222222222A2222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;submit=Go+find+my+Admission+Information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top 6 4U\/M&#8217; courses (including prerequisites)<\/a>,&#8217; then they are going to use whatever 6 Grade 12 courses have the highest marks, whether they are U or M, in your admission average.<\/p>\n<p>if they were planning on discarding your M&#8217;s in favour of U&#8217;s, even if those U&#8217;s were lower than the M&#8217;s, then they would say &#8216;top 6 4U courses.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>so no, you will not be at a disadvantage if 2 of your courses are M courses, and they will not use your math courses if the marks you got in those courses are not within your top 6 highest 4U or 4M marks.<\/p>\n<p>cool? cool.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska! So I have a question about U courses and UC or M courses. I already sent in my application for humanities at St george(AHHH) and out of my top 6 that I want to use 2 are UC\/M courses(just to clarify uc and m are the same thing). My other two U courses are math and I DO NOT WANT TO USE THOSE IN MY TOP 6. Does U of t give preference to students who have their top 6 of all U courses? Or will they include my Maths in my top 6 because they are U? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, ah, an admissions freakout! i haven&#8217;t seen one of these in a while. it doesn&#8217;t truly feel like the holiday season until grade 12&#8217;s are losing their heads about uni admissions, you know? anyway, fortunately for you, your question has a happy ending. the problem here is that you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of the word &#8216;top.&#8217; let&#8217;s break this down semantically, yeah? if the university says &#8216;top 6 4U\/M&#8217; courses (including prerequisites),&#8217; then they are going to use whatever 6 Grade 12 courses have the highest marks, whether they are U or M, in your admission average. if they were planning on discarding your M&#8217;s in favour of U&#8217;s, even if those U&#8217;s were lower than the M&#8217;s, then they would say &#8216;top 6 4U courses.&#8217; so no, you will not be at a disadvantage if 2 of your courses are M courses, and they will not use your math courses if the marks you got in those courses are not within your top 6 highest 4U or 4M marks. cool? cool. 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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","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=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}