{"id":20600,"date":"2017-05-24T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20600"},"modified":"2019-07-19T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T03:26:43","slug":"yay-career-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20600","title":{"rendered":"yay career advancement!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska!<\/p>\n<p>I have 2 questions for you:<\/p>\n<p>1. If I take a Y course in the summer, and only that 1.0 course, I&#8217;m eligible for work-study during the summer, right? The wording is a little confusing to me.<\/p>\n<p>2. I know you&#8217;re able to finish up your 20 FCE in three years and be eligible for November graduation, but if you finish a semester early, would you be considered &#8220;graduated&#8221;\/will you receive your degree? I was thinking of graduating a semester early (can&#8217;t do it in 3 years) so I could possibly start working earlier but a lot of &#8220;real job&#8221; places insist on you having your degree before they employ you. So I&#8217;m trying to figure out if that plan is even possible!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Aska!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hello!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>yes! you&#8217;re eligible for work-study during the summer. according to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.future.utoronto.ca\/finances\/financial-aid\/work-study-program\">uoft website, you must be enrolled in at least 1.0FCE<\/a><\/span>&#8212; which you are.<\/li>\n<li>sadly, you aren&#8217;t considered<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convocation.utoronto.ca\/faq\/can-you-tell-me-if-i-am-eligible-to-graduate-i-have-met-all-requirements-for-graduation-so-have-i-already-graduated-can-i-get-my-diploma-now\">&#8220;graduated&#8221; until the actual ceremony<\/a><\/span>. however, you can go to the artsci registrar and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/forms-services\/eligibility-letters\">request a letter confirming your graduation<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>i hope that was helpful. good luck on your career journey!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20694\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/giphy-4-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska! I have 2 questions for you: 1. If I take a Y course in the summer, and only that 1.0 course, I&#8217;m eligible for work-study during the summer, right? The wording is a little confusing to me. 2. I know you&#8217;re able to finish up your 20 FCE in three years and be eligible for November graduation, but if you finish a semester early, would you be considered &#8220;graduated&#8221;\/will you receive your degree? I was thinking of graduating a semester early (can&#8217;t do it in 3 years) so I could possibly start working earlier but a lot of &#8220;real job&#8221; places insist on you having your degree before they employ you. So I&#8217;m trying to figure out if that plan is even possible! Thanks, Aska! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hello! yes! you&#8217;re eligible for work-study during the summer. according to the uoft website, you must be enrolled in at least 1.0FCE&#8212; which you are. sadly, you aren&#8217;t considered &#8220;graduated&#8221; until the actual ceremony. however, you can go to the artsci registrar and request a letter confirming your graduation. i hope that was helpful. good luck on your career journey! 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":[11,224,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-sciences","category-degree-requirements","category-graduation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600","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=20600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}