{"id":20324,"date":"2017-01-24T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20324"},"modified":"2019-07-20T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T19:17:33","slug":"much-mystery-such-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20324","title":{"rendered":"much mystery, such confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve applied to life science and have a 70 in advanced functions. I see the the prerequisites are only English and calculus. How much would you look at that mark if my overall average is around a 86<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey,<\/p>\n<p>*as a student blogger, i won&#8217;t be the one looking at your mark at all, so don&#8217;t hold me to this answer*<\/p>\n<p>they will definitely consider your overall average, but they &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.future.utoronto.ca\/apply\/requirements\/canadian-high-school\">reserve the right<\/a>&#8221; to look at specific courses depending on what you&#8217;re applying for.<\/p>\n<p>since you&#8217;re applying to lifesci, your science grades should be on the higher side. i wouldn&#8217;t be toooo concerned about your advanced functions grade if your science grades and overall average are high. keep in mind though, admissions will consider tons of things when they look at your application, not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just<\/span> your grades, so you&#8217;ll never really know why you got in or why you didn&#8217;t get in. so mysterious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20483\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/giphy-9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>hope this was somewhat helpful,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve applied to life science and have a 70 in advanced functions. I see the the prerequisites are only English and calculus. How much would you look at that mark if my overall average is around a 86 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey, *as a student blogger, i won&#8217;t be the one looking at your mark at all, so don&#8217;t hold me to this answer* they will definitely consider your overall average, but they &#8220;reserve the right&#8221; to look at specific courses depending on what you&#8217;re applying for. since you&#8217;re applying to lifesci, your science grades should be on the higher side. i wouldn&#8217;t be toooo concerned about your advanced functions grade if your science grades and overall average are high. keep in mind though, admissions will consider tons of things when they look at your application, not just your grades, so you&#8217;ll never really know why you got in or why you didn&#8217;t get in. so mysterious. hope this was somewhat helpful, 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":[10,246,110,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions","category-applying-for-u-of-t","category-life-science","category-math"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve applied to life science and have a 70 in advanced functions. 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