{"id":21093,"date":"2017-07-21T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:47:19","slug":"subject-post-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=21093","title":{"rendered":"subject post blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post_content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post_content_inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post_body\">hey hey! I just need some clarification. So lets say I met all the requirements of a subject post but get rejected because its competitive. Doing better in my second year won&#8217;t improve my chances of getting into the program if I dont retake the prereq courses (and try to get better grades in those courses) correct? thank uu<\/div>\n<div>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/div>\n<div>hi!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>unfortunately, you can&#8217;t enrol in a course that you&#8217;ve already taken and passed without the permission of the department. if you want to retake a course for your subject POSt, i would go to the department and ask if it&#8217;s possible.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>i would also make an appointment with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/newstudents\/nextsteps\/contact\"> your college registrar<\/a> to discuss next steps or alternatives for the upcoming school year since you didn&#8217;t get into the subject POSt you wanted. they might also be able to help you with the next steps that you need to take if you want to retake a course you&#8217;ve passed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i hope this helps! good luck!<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media0.giphy.com\/media\/4KxeicCUTvhrW\/giphy.gif\" alt=\" stephen colbert colbert report good luck hopeful fingers crossed GIF\" \/><\/div>\n<div>xoxo,<\/div>\n<div>aska<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_content clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hey hey! I just need some clarification. So lets say I met all the requirements of a subject post but get rejected because its competitive. Doing better in my second year won&#8217;t improve my chances of getting into the program if I dont retake the prereq courses (and try to get better grades in those courses) correct? thank uu \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi! unfortunately, you can&#8217;t enrol in a course that you&#8217;ve already taken and passed without the permission of the department. if you want to retake a course for your subject POSt, i would go to the department and ask if it&#8217;s possible. i would also make an appointment with your college registrar to discuss next steps or alternatives for the upcoming school year since you didn&#8217;t get into the subject POSt you wanted. they might also be able to help you with the next steps that you need to take if you want to retake a course you&#8217;ve passed. i hope this helps! good 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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","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=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}