{"id":20670,"date":"2017-06-02T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20670"},"modified":"2019-07-19T23:09:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T03:09:30","slug":"get-it-ya-molecular-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=20670","title":{"rendered":"get it, ya molecular nerd!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a first year student desperately wanting to do the specialist program<br \/>\nin Molecular biology, however I failed one of my prereq courses (Mat134 &#8211;<br \/>\ncalc for life science) and bc of that I only have 3.5 completed credits.<br \/>\nDue to all this, I was refused from the program enrollment, as well as all<br \/>\nof the other 4 backup programs I applied to. If I&#8217;m able to revive my GPA<br \/>\nto about a 3,0, will I be able to enroll in the program after second year?<br \/>\nAlso, do I have to already be enrolled into a program in second year?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hello!<\/p>\n<p>you have to be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/program\/enrolment-instructions\/index_html\"> completed 4.0 FCEs<\/a> in order to enrol in a subject post. that&#8217;s probably why you didn&#8217;t get into your 4 backup programs. when you&#8217;re done 4.0 FCE, then you can enrol in a subject post.<\/p>\n<p>according to <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.artsci.utoronto.ca\/crs_csb.htm#ASSPE1003\">the artsci calendar<\/a>, you need a 70% in BIO130H1 or BIO230H1 in order to be considered for the molecular biology specialist. they also have a couple of preq courses outlined in the calendar. i would check those out too.<\/p>\n<p>as for getting your GPA up, there isn&#8217;t a specific GPA or CGPA requirement outlined in the calendar, but i imagine it would be competitive. i don&#8217;t want to give a specific number. again, i just want to avoid giving false information, and i&#8217;m sure it fluctuates year to year.<\/p>\n<p>i hope this helps!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20809\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/giphy-13.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"116\" \/><\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m a first year student desperately wanting to do the specialist program in Molecular biology, however I failed one of my prereq courses (Mat134 &#8211; calc for life science) and bc of that I only have 3.5 completed credits. Due to all this, I was refused from the program enrollment, as well as all of the other 4 backup programs I applied to. If I&#8217;m able to revive my GPA to about a 3,0, will I be able to enroll in the program after second year? Also, do I have to already be enrolled into a program in second year? Thanks \ud83d\ude42 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hello! you have to be completed 4.0 FCEs in order to enrol in a subject post. that&#8217;s probably why you didn&#8217;t get into your 4 backup programs. when you&#8217;re done 4.0 FCE, then you can enrol in a subject post. according to the artsci calendar, you need a 70% in BIO130H1 or BIO230H1 in order to be considered for the molecular biology specialist. they also have a couple of preq courses outlined in the calendar. i would check those out too. as for getting your GPA up, there isn&#8217;t a specific GPA or CGPA requirement outlined in the calendar, but i imagine it would be competitive. i don&#8217;t want to give a specific number. again, i just want to avoid giving false information, and i&#8217;m sure it fluctuates year to year. i hope this helps! 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670","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=20670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}