{"id":20620,"date":"2017-05-29T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2019-07-19T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T03:24:01","slug":"mysterious-admissions-committee-continues-to-mystify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20620","title":{"rendered":"mysterious admissions committee continues to mystify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEAR Aska<\/p>\n<p>Before I start, THANK YOU for all the work you do. It&#8217;s always better to start with thanks as I have heard. So my predicament is basically this: I applied to ArtSci at St. George for the Social Sciences and will now likely fall below the required average (by about 2-3%). I am asking if that cuts me off from admission. My marks for the required courses are super high (above requirement), it&#8217;s just the sciences which are keeping it low. Will they look at the individual courses? Can my required possibly save me?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hi!<\/p>\n<p>they do have access to your full transcript, so they\u00a0<em>can\u00a0<\/em>see that your required courses have better marks. however, the whole admissions process is kinda shrouded in mystery, so i&#8217;m not quite sure how they make their decisions. there are a lot of factors that go into their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure which average you&#8217;re going off of, but if you&#8217;re looking at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/futurestudents\/admissions\/guidance\/grades\">this<\/a>, then the cut-off is low to mid 80s. i&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;re at a high 70-ish? dude. i really don&#8217;t know. lots of stuff go into their decisions, but at the end of the day, that just what they are- their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>best of luck!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20770\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/giphy-6-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEAR Aska Before I start, THANK YOU for all the work you do. It&#8217;s always better to start with thanks as I have heard. So my predicament is basically this: I applied to ArtSci at St. George for the Social Sciences and will now likely fall below the required average (by about 2-3%). I am asking if that cuts me off from admission. My marks for the required courses are super high (above requirement), it&#8217;s just the sciences which are keeping it low. Will they look at the individual courses? Can my required possibly save me? Thanks in advance \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi! they do have access to your full transcript, so they\u00a0can\u00a0see that your required courses have better marks. however, the whole admissions process is kinda shrouded in mystery, so i&#8217;m not quite sure how they make their decisions. there are a lot of factors that go into their decisions. i&#8217;m not sure which average you&#8217;re going off of, but if you&#8217;re looking at\u00a0this, then the cut-off is low to mid 80s. i&#8217;m assuming you&#8217;re at a high 70-ish? dude. i really don&#8217;t know. lots of stuff go into their decisions, but at the end of the day, that just what they are- their decisions. best of luck! 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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620","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=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}