{"id":15405,"date":"2015-07-29T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15405"},"modified":"2019-07-22T00:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T04:07:20","slug":"you-gotta-wait-in-line-with-all-the-others-bub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15405","title":{"rendered":"you gotta wait in line with all the others, bub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi! I’m a second year student looking to switch majors, so I need to take some first year courses this year. Of course, for some of them I have to wait until august 6th (I think) to enrol, and I’m worried I won’t get in. If I contact the university and explain that I need these courses for my program, even though I technically am a 2nd year who has already chosen a subject post, will they help me out or will my dreams be heartlessly crushed and left in the dust? Thanks in advance for your help!!<\/p>\n

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hey there,<\/p>\n

a lot of people are in the same boat<\/a>, so?i doubt you’re going to get a sympathetic ear from – well, anyone – if you go around asking for an exception to be made for you. “WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL, BUB?” they’ll say. (for some reason, i imagine these hypothetical university officials as having a sort of roughed up, back-alley voice. more fun that way.)<\/p>\n

however, you can always double-check to see if there are any type 1 POSts<\/a> you can add temporarily to get into the course(s) you’re interested in. if the priority’s just for first year students, though, you may be out of luck.<\/p>\n

if it helps,?you’re not the only one in this predicament. also, many first year courses are very, very, VERY big<\/a>, so there’s a better-than-normal chance that you might snag a spot on August 7th, and your dreams won’t be “heartlessly crushed and left in the dust,” as you so creatively put it.<\/p>\n

make sure to have some backups – better safe than sorry – ?but don’t lose hope altogether, at the very least because it’s not worth it to wear out your nerves before courses even START.<\/p>\n

xoxo,<\/p>\n

aska<\/p>\n

P.S. the date is August 7th at 6am, not August 6th<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi! I’m a second year student looking to switch majors, so I need to take some first year courses this year. Of course, for some of them I have to wait until august 6th (I think) to enrol, and I’m worried I won’t get in. If I contact the university and explain that I need these courses for my program, even though I technically am a 2nd year who has already chosen a subject post, will they help me out or will my dreams be heartlessly crushed and left in the dust? Thanks in advance for your help!! ??????????????? hey there, a lot of people are in the same boat, so?i doubt you’re going to get a sympathetic ear from – well, anyone – if you go around asking for an exception to be made for you. “WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL, BUB?” they’ll say. (for some reason, i imagine these hypothetical university officials as having a sort of roughed up, back-alley voice. more fun that way.) however, you can always double-check to see if there are any type 1 POSts you can add temporarily to get into the course(s) you’re interested in. if the priority’s just for first year students, though, you may be out of luck. if it helps,?you’re not the only one in this predicament. also, many first year courses are very, very, VERY big, so there’s a better-than-normal chance that you might snag a spot on August 7th, and your dreams won’t be “heartlessly crushed and left in the dust,” as you so creatively put it. make sure to have some backups – better safe than sorry – ?but don’t lose hope altogether, at the very least because it’s not worth it to wear out your nerves before courses even START. xoxo, aska P.S. the date is August 7th at 6am, not August 6th.<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enrollment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405","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=15405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}