{"id":1509,"date":"2009-03-20T13:52:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2009-03-20T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T18:52:33","slug":"like-how-particular-is-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"like, how particular is particular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, I stumbled across this website while Googling (Google is your best friend&#8230;sometimes) and found the answers to my questions. Well, most of them anyway. There is just one thing I want to clarify. I applied to the Humanities Program at UofT. The Viewbook says that the university pays particular attention to my English marks. Now, I ended up with an 82 in the course (bear with me, I know you don&#8217;t like to hear about marks), and with my teacher that is about the best mark ever (according to my guidence councilor). With a different teacher, I could have ended up with a 90. So, what are my chances? Is 82 considered scratch-my-eyes-out horrible or passable? I know that it isn&#8217;t spectacular, so I&#8217;m not even going to go there. I have exhausted all possible resources available to me. So, please help me out. Before I hemorrhage out of sheer anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks much.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate it when this one &amp;^#@ of teacher screws up your prospects of becoming a respectable member of the bourgeoisie??<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell you if you&#8217;ll get in or not (and by the way I appreciate you noticing my disdain for grade submission. Guess my endless ranting had some effect), but if your other 5 M\/U courses make up an agreeable average, your 82 shouldn&#8217;t be an obstacle. Does that sort of answer it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I stumbled across this website while Googling (Google is your best friend&#8230;sometimes) and found the answers to my questions. Well, most of them anyway. There is just one thing I want to clarify. I applied to the Humanities Program at UofT. The Viewbook says that the university pays particular attention to my English marks. Now, I ended up with an 82 in the course (bear with me, I know you don&#8217;t like to hear about marks), and with my teacher that is about the best mark ever (according to my guidence councilor). With a different teacher, I could have ended up with a 90. So, what are my chances? Is 82 considered scratch-my-eyes-out horrible or passable? I know that it isn&#8217;t spectacular, so I&#8217;m not even going to go there. I have exhausted all possible resources available to me. So, please help me out. Before I hemorrhage out of sheer anxiety. Thanks much. Cheers.<\/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":[10,105,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions","category-english","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","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=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}