{"id":1288,"date":"2008-12-02T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2008-12-02T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:16:32","slug":"sorry-askastudent-is-currently-on-jelly-doughnut-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"sorry, askastudent is currently on jelly doughnut break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi, I wanted to go into life sciences and was wondering weather you can choose a major in life sciences from the first year. Also, is it difficult to get accepted? thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the end of the semester, quite a gruesome time for us all. Therefore, I&#8217;ve decided to economize the replies. That way I can answer all of your enquiries, AND have enough time to attend the UC Hanukkah party! (Disclaimer: askastudent is an unaffiliated, non-denominational entity, with no specific religious tendency other than a severe weakness for latkes).<\/p>\n<p>So the answers to your questions are:<\/p>\n<p>1. no<\/p>\n<p>2. yes<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding, I wouldn&#8217;t do that&#8230; after all, why am I here, if not to wildly inflate otherwise straightforward responses with mindless babble?! Yeah, I love you too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, for the life-science-major question, students at the faculty of arts &amp; science usually choose their program of study (major\/minor\/specialist or some combination of the three) at the end of the session in which they&#8217;re expected to complete 4 FCE&#8217;s (full course equivalents; which means 4 full-year courses, or 8 half-year courses or something in-between). Usually that means the end of the first year of study. If you have transfer credits from another university that may be a different story&#8230; But let&#8217;s not get into the murkier areas for now.<\/p>\n<p>Is it difficult? Well, that depends on which specific program you desire. See, life science is an umbrella term for a whole lotta programs ranging from the mundane (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crazyabouttv.com\/Images\/renandstimpy.jpg\">biology<\/a>), to the more intricate (<a href=\"http:\/\/i204.photobucket.com\/albums\/bb114\/darksoul1845\/misceleneous\/Ren_and_Stimpy_by_nosleepjinx.jpg\">molecular genetics and microbiology<\/a>). Even though many of the life science programs have the same first-year requirements, there is quite a lot of variation between them. So when you get your admission letter from UofT, you can pick up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/undergraduate\/course\">A&amp;S calendar<\/a>, where you can find all the offered LifeSci programs and their respective first-year reqs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I wanted to go into life sciences and was wondering weather you can choose a major in life sciences from the first year. Also, is it difficult to get accepted? thank you.<\/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":[118,110,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-year","category-life-science","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}