{"id":26543,"date":"2021-02-26T00:45:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T05:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=26543"},"modified":"2021-02-26T00:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T05:45:49","slug":"this-is-difficult-difficult-lemon-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=26543","title":{"rendered":"this is difficult difficult lemon difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post_content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post_content_inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post_body\">\n<p>Hello! Hope you&#8217;re doing well \ud83d\ude42 I had a really tough time between 2017-2019 but I&#8217;ve picked myself back up and am now getting 3.5-4.0s.. but even if i get 3.5-4.0&#8217;s in my 6 winter courses my GPA will be 1.95 and the bio major cutoff is 2.0. I&#8217;ve completed every course for the major but my gpa is almost there&#8230; i was wondering if there&#8217;s still a chance I can get in (if i beg to someone lol:( I&#8217;ve even accepted my grad request and approved for my psych major. pls tell me what u think i can do \ud83d\ude41<\/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>i&#8217;m doing all right, thanks!<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m so glad to hear that you&#8217;re doing better, even though you went through a pretty rough patch. however, i&#8217;m not really sure what can be done. i&#8217;m not aware of any appeals process for program admission.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/1xNBHSzHQgbeh9nvNo\/giphy.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>your best bet is probably to get in touch with your <a href=\"https:\/\/future.utoronto.ca\/current-students\/registrars\/\">registrar<\/a>. an academic advisor at your registrar&#8217;s office may know more about your options than i do \u2014 contrary to what some might think, this situation you&#8217;re in isn&#8217;t super unusual. i&#8217;ve seen it on this blog a few times. also get in touch with the department. since they&#8217;re the ones who presumably make program admissions decisions, if you were to appeal to anyone, it would be them.<\/p>\n<p>sorry i don&#8217;t have anything more definitive to give you! i really hope you manage to work this out, as your GPA really is so close and i&#8217;m sure you put a lot of work in to bring it back up. wishing you all the best of luck &lt;3<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/AC1PtbdsJZyOQ\/giphy.gif\" width=\"397\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Hope you&#8217;re doing well \ud83d\ude42 I had a really tough time between 2017-2019 but I&#8217;ve picked myself back up and am now getting 3.5-4.0s.. but even if i get 3.5-4.0&#8217;s in my 6 winter courses my GPA will be 1.95 and the bio major cutoff is 2.0. I&#8217;ve completed every course for the major but my gpa is almost there&#8230; i was wondering if there&#8217;s still a chance I can get in (if i beg to someone lol:( I&#8217;ve even accepted my grad request and approved for my psych major. pls tell me what u think i can do \ud83d\ude41 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, i&#8217;m doing all right, thanks! i&#8217;m so glad to hear that you&#8217;re doing better, even though you went through a pretty rough patch. however, i&#8217;m not really sure what can be done. i&#8217;m not aware of any appeals process for program admission. your best bet is probably to get in touch with your registrar. an academic advisor at your registrar&#8217;s office may know more about your options than i do \u2014 contrary to what some might think, this situation you&#8217;re in isn&#8217;t super unusual. i&#8217;ve seen it on this blog a few times. also get in touch with the department. since they&#8217;re the ones who presumably make program admissions decisions, if you were to appeal to anyone, it would be them. sorry i don&#8217;t have anything more definitive to give you! i really hope you manage to work this out, as your GPA really is so close and i&#8217;m sure you put a lot of work in to bring it back up. wishing you all the best of luck &lt;3 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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello! 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