{"id":26319,"date":"2020-12-15T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=26319"},"modified":"2020-12-15T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T07:31:09","slug":"master-is-almost-going-to-give-dobby-a-diploma-dobby-is-almost-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=26319","title":{"rendered":"master is almost going to give dobby a diploma! dobby is almost free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m a fourth year student that&#8217;s a bit confused&#8230; Can we request to graduate while we are still completing courses? For example, my last semester (as a full time student\/taking 3 courses) will be Fall 2021. I finish the courses in December while Fall convocation is usually in November&#8230;Would I need to wait until all my courses are completed and request for June 2022 or is it okay to request for Fall 2021 while grades are still pending?<\/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>congrats on being so close! you&#8217;re almost to the end of your degree. very impressive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/JmUfwENE6i4Jxig27n\/giphy.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to my understanding, you can <em>request<\/em> to graduate while you&#8217;re still completing courses. this is basically just based off personal experience: i know a lot of people who graduate in june of their fourth year, even if the deadline to request a june graduation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/dates-deadlines\/academic-dates#academic-dates-deadlines-accordion-3\">usually in january.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>however, you can&#8217;t\u00a0<em>graduate\u00a0<\/em>while you&#8217;re still completing courses. so if your last semester at the school is fall 2021, your courses will be completed in december, which will block you from graduating in november of 2021. so you&#8217;ll likely need to request for a june 2022 graduation\u2014which might not be so bad, right, because hopefully you&#8217;ll get an in-person convocation!<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s all based on what i know. if you&#8217;d like to confirm this or talk it over with someone, give your <a href=\"https:\/\/future.utoronto.ca\/current-students\/registrars\/\">registrar&#8217;s office<\/a> a call! they should be able to answer this question pretty easily.<\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m a fourth year student that&#8217;s a bit confused&#8230; Can we request to graduate while we are still completing courses? For example, my last semester (as a full time student\/taking 3 courses) will be Fall 2021. I finish the courses in December while Fall convocation is usually in November&#8230;Would I need to wait until all my courses are completed and request for June 2022 or is it okay to request for Fall 2021 while grades are still pending? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, congrats on being so close! you&#8217;re almost to the end of your degree. very impressive. to my understanding, you can request to graduate while you&#8217;re still completing courses. this is basically just based off personal experience: i know a lot of people who graduate in june of their fourth year, even if the deadline to request a june graduation is usually in january. however, you can&#8217;t\u00a0graduate\u00a0while you&#8217;re still completing courses. so if your last semester at the school is fall 2021, your courses will be completed in december, which will block you from graduating in november of 2021. so you&#8217;ll likely need to request for a june 2022 graduation\u2014which might not be so bad, right, because hopefully you&#8217;ll get an in-person convocation! that&#8217;s all based on what i know. if you&#8217;d like to confirm this or talk it over with someone, give your registrar&#8217;s office a call! they should be able to answer this question pretty easily. be Boundless, 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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi! 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