{"id":13144,"date":"2015-02-10T11:14:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=13144"},"modified":"2019-08-04T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T23:14:12","slug":"only-utsg-is-blessed-with-a-college-system-that-confuses-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=13144","title":{"rendered":"only utsg is blessed with a college system that confuses everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sir\/Ma&#8217;am,I am an international student. I have submitted the application for U of T Mississauga and Scarborough. I have a few questions regarding my application to U of T 1) I would like to know whether I could make additions to my program choices selected during the application Now I would like to add International Relations as an additional program to my application. What should be the process for the this amendment? 2) I would like to clarify on ranking the colleges. Since, International Relations is only offered by the Trinity College, how am I suppose to rank the other colleges? 3) Kindly let me know what is the admission process for Early Admission Decision. 4) On the Join U of T website, it says required documents : Secondary\/High School Mid-term Results. At my High School I have been given a official predicted score sheet based on my academic performance throughout the year. Can I submit the official predicted report instead of the Mid-Term Results, because the predicted mark is the latest academic information in my case ? Also, am I suppose to submit Year 9,10 and 11 results under this space? Thank you for your cooperation and support.<\/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>1) don&#8217;t bother. despite the program choice you put on your application, you&#8217;re not actually going to be placed in that program in first year. you&#8217;ll be placed in a general stream (life science, humanities, etc.) and then you&#8217;ll have to apply to a specific program (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/subject-post-enrolment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subject POSt<\/a>) after first year.<\/p>\n<p>2) well, you <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/stevecarrelno2.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHOULDN&#8217;T rank colleges based on your program of interest<\/a>. firstly, the program you&#8217;re interested in may change during the course of your first year. secondly, college affiliation isn&#8217;t really an academic thing. here are some things you might want to consider instead, when picking a college:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; residence (if you&#8217;re planning on living in residence)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the kinds of activities offered by the college<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the location of the college<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the look of the college<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; scholarships offered by the college<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FYF-2015-16-v1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">college one programs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the FEEL of the COMMUNITY in the college<\/p>\n<p>if you want to know more about this, you can start by reading through aska&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?cat=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">colleges tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3) early admission has already happened (it happens in december), so don&#8217;t worry about that.<\/p>\n<p>4) definitely talk to a teacher\/guidance counsellor about that. the process of sending documents varies a bit depending on which country you&#8217;re from, so your school, not the university, would know best about what needs to be sent and when.<\/p>\n<p>finally, i just need to point this out in case i haven&#8217;t misunderstood. if you <em>only<\/em> applied to UTM and UTSC, and not to the St. George campus, then you won&#8217;t be able to apply to the international relations program (since that&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/crs_trn.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. George program<\/a>), and you won&#8217;t be a member of a college, because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utoronto.ca\/programs\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">colleges are only for downtown students<\/a>. so&#8230;if you didn&#8217;t apply to UTSG and you meant to, i would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adm.utoronto.ca\/contact-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call enrolment services<\/a> to try and sort that out.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sir\/Ma&#8217;am,I am an international student. I have submitted the application for U of T Mississauga and Scarborough. I have a few questions regarding my application to U of T 1) I would like to know whether I could make additions to my program choices selected during the application Now I would like to add International Relations as an additional program to my application. What should be the process for the this amendment? 2) I would like to clarify on ranking the colleges. Since, International Relations is only offered by the Trinity College, how am I suppose to rank the other colleges? 3) Kindly let me know what is the admission process for Early Admission Decision. 4) On the Join U of T website, it says required documents : Secondary\/High School Mid-term Results. At my High School I have been given a official predicted score sheet based on my academic performance throughout the year. Can I submit the official predicted report instead of the Mid-Term Results, because the predicted mark is the latest academic information in my case ? Also, am I suppose to submit Year 9,10 and 11 results under this space? Thank you for your cooperation and support. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, 1) don&#8217;t bother. despite the program choice you put on your application, you&#8217;re not actually going to be placed in that program in first year. you&#8217;ll be placed in a general stream (life science, humanities, etc.) and then you&#8217;ll have to apply to a specific program (subject POSt) after first year. 2) well, you SHOULDN&#8217;T rank colleges based on your program of interest. firstly, the program you&#8217;re interested in may change during the course of your first year. secondly, college affiliation isn&#8217;t really an academic thing. here are some things you might want to consider instead, when picking a college: &#8211; residence (if you&#8217;re planning on living in residence) &#8211; the kinds of activities offered by the college &#8211; the location of the college &#8211; the look of the college &#8211; scholarships offered by the college &#8211; college one programs &#8211; the FEEL of the COMMUNITY in the college if you want to know more about this, you can start by reading through aska&#8217;s colleges tag. 3) early admission has already happened (it happens in december), so don&#8217;t worry about that. 4) definitely talk to a teacher\/guidance counsellor about that. the process of sending documents varies a bit depending on which country you&#8217;re from, so your school, not the university, would know best about what needs to be sent and when. finally, i just need to point this out in case i haven&#8217;t misunderstood. if you only applied to UTM and UTSC, and not to the St. George campus, then you won&#8217;t be able to apply to the international relations program (since that&#8217;s a St. George program), and you won&#8217;t be a member of a college, because the colleges are only for downtown students. so&#8230;if you didn&#8217;t apply to UTSG and you meant to, i would call enrolment services to try and sort that out. 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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","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=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}