{"id":24676,"date":"2019-10-04T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=24676"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:56:02","slug":"but-your-first-year-just-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=24676","title":{"rendered":"but your first year just started :("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am first year student of commerce. I have question regarding CGPA requirements. I would like to know if I didn\u2019t meet CGPA requirement this year can I improve my marks next year and apply again to the second year?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>since you didn&#8217;t specify otherwise, i&#8217;m just gonna go right ahead and answer this like you&#8217;re a first year in rotman commerce, and you&#8217;re worried about the guaranteed admission requirements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/a8din6DmwLnFK\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it might be important to note that it&#8217;s not your CGPA you&#8217;d be worried about, then&#8211; you&#8217;d be looking at the grades in your required courses, like RSM101. to make it to second year at rotman, there&#8217;s a grade threshold you&#8217;ll need to jump, which is what i&#8217;m assuming you mean by &#8220;CGPA requirement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rotmancommerce.utoronto.ca\/new-students\/guaranteed-admission\/\">rotman website<\/a>, you&#8217;re allowed to retake each of the courses you need once, for a higher grade&#8211; the catch is, this needs to be done before fall\/winter of your second year. as in, during the summer. any of those courses you retake won&#8217;t count towards your 20 credits to graduate or your gpa, either. they&#8217;ll just be your way back on track, i guess.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/JpqnWRtJHhsu4\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>if you did want to retake your requirements during the next fall-winter semester, you&#8217;d have to request an extension. apparently these are only granted in special circumstances, like if you dealt with significant and unexpected difficulty during your first year. if that&#8217;s the reason you&#8217;re asking this question and you think you qualify, you&#8217;d have to visit your rotman commerce academic advisor to get the extension process goin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>hope this helped!<\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am first year student of commerce. I have question regarding CGPA requirements. I would like to know if I didn\u2019t meet CGPA requirement this year can I improve my marks next year and apply again to the second year? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, since you didn&#8217;t specify otherwise, i&#8217;m just gonna go right ahead and answer this like you&#8217;re a first year in rotman commerce, and you&#8217;re worried about the guaranteed admission requirements. it might be important to note that it&#8217;s not your CGPA you&#8217;d be worried about, then&#8211; you&#8217;d be looking at the grades in your required courses, like RSM101. to make it to second year at rotman, there&#8217;s a grade threshold you&#8217;ll need to jump, which is what i&#8217;m assuming you mean by &#8220;CGPA requirement.&#8221; according to the rotman website, you&#8217;re allowed to retake each of the courses you need once, for a higher grade&#8211; the catch is, this needs to be done before fall\/winter of your second year. as in, during the summer. any of those courses you retake won&#8217;t count towards your 20 credits to graduate or your gpa, either. they&#8217;ll just be your way back on track, i guess. if you did want to retake your requirements during the next fall-winter semester, you&#8217;d have to request an extension. apparently these are only granted in special circumstances, like if you dealt with significant and unexpected difficulty during your first year. if that&#8217;s the reason you&#8217;re asking this question and you think you qualify, you&#8217;d have to visit your rotman commerce academic advisor to get the extension process goin&#8217;. hope this helped! be Boundless, aska &nbsp;<\/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":[36,201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-rotman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676","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=24676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}