{"id":15266,"date":"2015-07-16T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15266"},"modified":"2019-07-22T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T04:09:33","slug":"tbh-i-didnt-know-that-childrens-fashion-photographer-was-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15266","title":{"rendered":"tbh i didn&#8217;t know that &#8216;children&#8217;s fashion photographer&#8217; was a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am currently a student at U of T who has some questions about transfer credits. This past year I did an exchange with U of T at Sciences Po in Paris, and there I have greatly developed my career as a children&#8217;s fashion photographer, and working very frequently\/ and am sought out increasingly in France, Germany, Italy etc and being in Canada be detrimental to my growing career as a top children&#8217;s fashion photographer. At the same time I want and find it crucial to complete my studies. My registrar said that I can only do 5 transfer credits (exchange &amp; online) that will count to my degree (I need 5.5-6 more edits to complete it), however I found information on the U of T website that I believe stated you could do a maximum of 10 transfer credits. Do you happen to know anything about this. I am hoping there is a way to complete my degree online as my career and life over here in Europe is thriving.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very, and all the best.<\/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>if you want to get a degree at uoft, at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cie.utoronto.ca\/Exchange-Programs\/U-of-T-Students\/Eligibility.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">half your credits have to be uoft credits<\/a> &#8211; which, yes, translates to 10.0 FCEs. so that means that all of the transfer credits you have <em>combined<\/em> &#8211; including exchange courses, online courses and transfer credit from high school or other universities, etc. &#8211; have to be under 10.0. so that&#8217;s one restriction.<\/p>\n<p>the second rule is: if you&#8217;re in the faculty or arts &amp; science, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cie.utoronto.ca\/Exchange-Programs\/U-of-T-Students\/Eligibility.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MAXIMUM amount of exchange credits you can have is 7.5 FCEs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure how many transfer credits you have already, but those would be the restrictions you&#8217;d have to abide by. also: listen to whatever your registrar said. i guarantee you <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/walterwhiteyoureright.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they&#8217;re right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>and hey, if you can&#8217;t do all the rest of your degree online, maybe you can just wait a year or two, finish your degree, and then go back to Paris or wherever you need to be. i guarantee Europe will still be there when you&#8217;re ready.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I am currently a student at U of T who has some questions about transfer credits. This past year I did an exchange with U of T at Sciences Po in Paris, and there I have greatly developed my career as a children&#8217;s fashion photographer, and working very frequently\/ and am sought out increasingly in France, Germany, Italy etc and being in Canada be detrimental to my growing career as a top children&#8217;s fashion photographer. At the same time I want and find it crucial to complete my studies. My registrar said that I can only do 5 transfer credits (exchange &amp; online) that will count to my degree (I need 5.5-6 more edits to complete it), however I found information on the U of T website that I believe stated you could do a maximum of 10 transfer credits. Do you happen to know anything about this. I am hoping there is a way to complete my degree online as my career and life over here in Europe is thriving. Thank you very, and all the best. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, if you want to get a degree at uoft, at least half your credits have to be uoft credits &#8211; which, yes, translates to 10.0 FCEs. so that means that all of the transfer credits you have combined &#8211; including exchange courses, online courses and transfer credit from high school or other universities, etc. &#8211; have to be under 10.0. so that&#8217;s one restriction. the second rule is: if you&#8217;re in the faculty or arts &amp; science, the MAXIMUM amount of exchange credits you can have is 7.5 FCEs. i&#8217;m not sure how many transfer credits you have already, but those would be the restrictions you&#8217;d have to abide by. also: listen to whatever your registrar said. i guarantee you they&#8217;re right. and hey, if you can&#8217;t do all the rest of your degree online, maybe you can just wait a year or two, finish your degree, and then go back to Paris or wherever you need to be. i guarantee Europe will still be there when you&#8217;re ready. 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":[176,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange","category-transfer-credits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266","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=15266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}