{"id":20288,"date":"2017-03-15T16:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20288"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:10:53","slug":"program-fees-vs-course-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20288","title":{"rendered":"program fees vs. course fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear aska,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fourth year student and I want to take an extra semester of courses to improve my gpa for Masters applications. I&#8217;m an Education and Society minor and I need to finish 0.5 credit internship before I can graduate. I&#8217;m planning on doing it in fall 2017, not taking winter courses and graduating in June 2018. You answered a question (entitled: i have LOTS of problems) that basically encapsulates my situation as well. But what I&#8217;d like to know is that if I am a full-time student in the fall (probably taking 3-4 courses) and I don&#8217;t take any courses in the winter term, would I still be a full-time student. And do I still have to pay full year&#8217;s tuition?<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Struggling Student<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>glad to know someone&#8217;s reading our wee li&#8217;l blog!<\/p>\n<p>arts and sciences will assess your status by looking at the full session (both fall and winter), meaning that if you are only enrolled in 3-4 courses in one semester, you&#8217;re still considered a part time student.<\/p>\n<p>let&#8217;s assume that by taking 3-4 courses, you mean 1.5-2.0 FCE&#8217;s.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/timetable\/1617_fw\/step-6\">according to the faculty of arts and sciences<\/a>, you&#8217;re still considered part time and you&#8217;ll be able to pay per course fees.\u00a0the link above explains everything in excruciating detail ^<\/p>\n<p>you will also be paying reduced incidentals, which are specific to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fees.utoronto.ca\/sessions\/2016_2017\/tuition_fees\/fees\/fac.htm\">your college<\/a>:\u00a0&lt;&#8212; select which college you are part of and you&#8217;ll be able to see what fees you&#8217;ll be paying.<\/p>\n<p>basically, as long as your course load is 3.5 credits or lower, you&#8217;ll pay course fees.<\/p>\n<p>hope this helped!<\/p>\n<p>peace and love,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear aska, I&#8217;m a fourth year student and I want to take an extra semester of courses to improve my gpa for Masters applications. I&#8217;m an Education and Society minor and I need to finish 0.5 credit internship before I can graduate. I&#8217;m planning on doing it in fall 2017, not taking winter courses and graduating in June 2018. You answered a question (entitled: i have LOTS of problems) that basically encapsulates my situation as well. But what I&#8217;d like to know is that if I am a full-time student in the fall (probably taking 3-4 courses) and I don&#8217;t take any courses in the winter term, would I still be a full-time student. And do I still have to pay full year&#8217;s tuition? Regards, Struggling Student \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 glad to know someone&#8217;s reading our wee li&#8217;l blog! arts and sciences will assess your status by looking at the full session (both fall and winter), meaning that if you are only enrolled in 3-4 courses in one semester, you&#8217;re still considered a part time student. let&#8217;s assume that by taking 3-4 courses, you mean 1.5-2.0 FCE&#8217;s.\u00a0according to the faculty of arts and sciences, you&#8217;re still considered part time and you&#8217;ll be able to pay per course fees.\u00a0the link above explains everything in excruciating detail ^ you will also be paying reduced incidentals, which are specific to your college:\u00a0&lt;&#8212; select which college you are part of and you&#8217;ll be able to see what fees you&#8217;ll be paying. basically, as long as your course load is 3.5 credits or lower, you&#8217;ll pay course fees. hope this helped! peace and love, aska &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,127,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-sciences","category-colleges","category-fees","category-incidentals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288","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=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}