Hi there,<\/p>\n
a couple questions that I hope you could help me with. I\u2019m an American student and have been working for a year after finishing my undergraduate degree in business administration, but now want to go back to school to study humanities, which I\u2019d actually enjoy.<\/p>\n
Should I retake my SATs though? My scores back from 11th grade were pretty mediocre: reading 620, math 790, writing 670. I know I\u2019d do significantly better if i retake. Will UofT accept new scores or even want me to submit SAT at all?<\/p>\n
My high school GPA was weighted 3.7 and unweighted 3.5, last year of uni was 3.1\/3.2ish, uni overall 3.2; do I stand a chance being accepted into UofT?<\/p>\n
Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n
Best regards,<\/p>\n
\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n
hey there,<\/p>\n
ah, a Yank! so you want to come up into the frigid north and read some Atwood (probably)\u00a0in our poorly insulated refriger-classes, huh? well, good on you. i always admire someone who\u2019s coming back to school to pursue a passion. even if it is in this icy chillscape.<\/p>\n
it seems like the university\u00a0will want you to submit your SAT scores<\/a>. all the scores you\u2019ve cited, however, are higher than what\u2019s \u201cbeen presented by successful applicants<\/a>\u201d in the past, to paraphrase admissions. so that\u2019s a good sign. i don\u2019t know too much about the SATs and what constitutes a good score, but a cursory look at the requirements seems to indicate that you don\u2019t absolutely\u00a0have<\/em> to retake them.<\/p>\n as for\u00a0your GPA, that\u2019s harder to compare. every university has a slightly different GPA system, even if many of them use a 4.0 scale like uoft. that being said, if you finished with a 3.2 and we assume that the scales at both universities are roughly the same, then you finished with a \u2018B\u2019 average<\/a>, which\u00a0makes you a competitive transfer applicant<\/a>.<\/p>\n all in all, i can\u2019t guarantee that you will be accepted, or that you won\u2019t be. from the information that you\u2019ve given me, it could go one way or the other. the thing is, if it\u2019s something you want to do, you have to try.<\/p>\n cheers,<\/p>\n aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi there, a couple questions that I hope you could help me with. I\u2019m an American student and have been working for a year after finishing my undergraduate degree in business administration, but now want to go back to school to study humanities, which I\u2019d actually enjoy. Should I retake my SATs though? My scores back from 11th grade were pretty mediocre: reading 620, math 790, writing 670. I know I\u2019d do significantly better if i retake. Will UofT accept new scores or even want me to submit SAT at all? My high school GPA was weighted 3.7 and unweighted 3.5, last year of uni was 3.1\/3.2ish, uni overall 3.2; do I stand a chance being accepted into UofT? Thanks in advance! Best regards, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, ah, a Yank! so you want to come up into the frigid north and read some Atwood (probably)\u00a0in our poorly insulated refriger-classes, huh? well, good on you. i always admire someone who\u2019s coming back to school to pursue a passion. even if it is in this icy chillscape. it seems like the university\u00a0will want you to submit your SAT scores. all the scores you\u2019ve cited, however, are higher than what\u2019s \u201cbeen presented by successful applicants\u201d in the past, to paraphrase admissions. so that\u2019s a good sign. i don\u2019t know too much about the SATs and what constitutes a good score, but a cursory look at the requirements seems to indicate that you don\u2019t absolutely\u00a0have to retake them. as for\u00a0your GPA, that\u2019s harder to compare. every university has a slightly different GPA system, even if many of them use a 4.0 scale like uoft. that being said, if you finished with a 3.2 and we assume that the scales at both universities are roughly the same, then you finished with a \u2018B\u2019 average, which\u00a0makes you a competitive transfer applicant. all in all, i can\u2019t guarantee that you will be accepted, or that you won\u2019t be. from the information that you\u2019ve given me, it could go one way or the other. the thing is, if it\u2019s something you want to do, you have to try. 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":[10,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions","category-americans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924","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=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}