{"id":16678,"date":"2016-03-02T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=16678"},"modified":"2019-07-20T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T01:02:25","slug":"u-or-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=16678","title":{"rendered":"U or M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska! So I know that UofT accepts both U and M level courses as a part of your top six (I&#8217;ve applied to Humanities, so my only prerequisite is U level English), but I was wondering if they would prioritize accepting students with more U level courses since they&#8217;re technically supposed to be &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;harder&#8221;&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Because of various course-scheduling conflicts and certain courses no longer being offered at my school, I am only taking two grade 12 U courses (English and Philosophy) and the rest of them are M (all drama and music courses). I got 95% in English (ENG4U1) first semester, and knowing my teachers and how I&#8217;ve been doing so far I&#8217;m guessing my final top 6 average at the end of the year will be above 90, but I&#8217;m just worried that I&#8217;d be at a disadvantage because I&#8217;m not taking many U level courses&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for any help you can offer!!<\/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>this is one of those admissions questions that i won&#8217;t be able to give you an exact answer to, not because i don&#8217;t <i>want<\/i> to, but because i don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>have<\/em> the answer. unfortunately, you&#8217;ll just have to make your peace with that.<\/p>\n<p>i am inclined to say that because you are entering into the humanities and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adm.utoronto.ca\/adm_pdf_files\/uab_st.george.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grade 12 English is typically the only required course for the humanities<\/a>, it shouldn&#8217;t impact your application too much. at a lot of high schools, drama and music are\u00a0<em>only<\/em> offered at the M level, and so if you want to take those courses, you don&#8217;t really have the opportunity to take them at the U level.<\/p>\n<p>your M courses shouldn&#8217;t put you at a disadvantage when entering first year, since many first-year humanities courses are in areas that simply aren&#8217;t taught in high school. that means everyone is encountering it for the first time. and if it shouldn&#8217;t impact your studies, then it stands to reason that it also shouldn&#8217;t impact your application.<\/p>\n<p>SO my logic would be that as long as your GPA is competitive and it includes prerequisites, you should be fine.<\/p>\n<p>if you&#8217;d like some more nuanced information, i&#8217;d recommend you talk to enrolment services. they can give you the lowdown.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska! So I know that UofT accepts both U and M level courses as a part of your top six (I&#8217;ve applied to Humanities, so my only prerequisite is U level English), but I was wondering if they would prioritize accepting students with more U level courses since they&#8217;re technically supposed to be &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;harder&#8221;&#8221;&#8221;. Because of various course-scheduling conflicts and certain courses no longer being offered at my school, I am only taking two grade 12 U courses (English and Philosophy) and the rest of them are M (all drama and music courses). I got 95% in English (ENG4U1) first semester, and knowing my teachers and how I&#8217;ve been doing so far I&#8217;m guessing my final top 6 average at the end of the year will be above 90, but I&#8217;m just worried that I&#8217;d be at a disadvantage because I&#8217;m not taking many U level courses&#8230;. Thanks for any help you can offer!! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, this is one of those admissions questions that i won&#8217;t be able to give you an exact answer to, not because i don&#8217;t want to, but because i don&#8217;t\u00a0have the answer. unfortunately, you&#8217;ll just have to make your peace with that. i am inclined to say that because you are entering into the humanities and Grade 12 English is typically the only required course for the humanities, it shouldn&#8217;t impact your application too much. at a lot of high schools, drama and music are\u00a0only offered at the M level, and so if you want to take those courses, you don&#8217;t really have the opportunity to take them at the U level. your M courses shouldn&#8217;t put you at a disadvantage when entering first year, since many first-year humanities courses are in areas that simply aren&#8217;t taught in high school. that means everyone is encountering it for the first time. and if it shouldn&#8217;t impact your studies, then it stands to reason that it also shouldn&#8217;t impact your application. SO my logic would be that as long as your GPA is competitive and it includes prerequisites, you should be fine. if you&#8217;d like some more nuanced information, i&#8217;d recommend you talk to enrolment services. they can give you the lowdown. 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-16678","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\/16678","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=16678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}