{"id":15895,"date":"2015-09-18T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15895"},"modified":"2019-07-21T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:56:42","slug":"good-news-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=15895","title":{"rendered":"good news for once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! I&#8217;m ranked #2 in a waitlist for a class that has 350 students. Is there any chance that I&#8217;d get in before September 20?<\/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>the general <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-uD4GlA57P6Y\/UxlKwt89rbI\/AAAAAAAAKfs\/Pvdt6BE6N8I\/s1600\/thumb+shape.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rule of thumb<\/a> is that if your spot on the waitlist is within 10% of the total number of spots in the course, you have a good chance of getting in.<\/p>\n<p>now, if you put your impressive, university-level analytical skills to work, you may notice that the number 2 is less than the number 35, which in turn is 10% of 350. so yes, you will probably get in.<\/p>\n<p>ooh! nothing like a little bit of math on a friday to put a spring in aska&#8217;s step.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey! I&#8217;m ranked #2 in a waitlist for a class that has 350 students. Is there any chance that I&#8217;d get in before September 20? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, the general rule of thumb is that if your spot on the waitlist is within 10% of the total number of spots in the course, you have a good chance of getting in. now, if you put your impressive, university-level analytical skills to work, you may notice that the number 2 is less than the number 35, which in turn is 10% of 350. so yes, you will probably get in. ooh! nothing like a little bit of math on a friday to put a spring in aska&#8217;s step. xoxo, 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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wait-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895","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=15895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}