IR calendar entry<\/a> and you’re right that it doesn’t mention any essays. if supplementary materials are required, that will always be mentioned in the calendar. but because i know how moms can be, i also asked a friend who applied to IR in summer 2019 to confirm, and they told me that they needed to submit a short essay.<\/p>\nso, as one does, i put on my detective hat. i wear a lot of hats around here, but this one’s my favorite.<\/p>\n
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i couldn’t find a gif of The Hat that i liked, so this one will have to do.<\/p>\n
after that, a little time travel was in order.<\/p>\n
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in summer 2019 (july the second, to be exact), this is what the IR calendar entry looked like.<\/p>\n
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as i expected, all application requirements were listed in the calendar entry, and back then those requirements included a statement of interest \u2014 or an essay. so your mom was\u00a0technically\u00a0<\/em>correct in the sense that, in the past, an essay was necessary. but given that the page today has removed the “Statement of Interest” bit, i think it’s safe to say that no essay is required.<\/p>\ni hope this helps! good luck.<\/p>\n
be Boundless,<\/p>\n
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hi! hope you’re doing well! i recently made a big oopsie and forgot to send in my supplementary essays for the pcj program (and my mom won’t let me forget about this anytime soon so yay for me). i was wondering if you know if the international relations major needs any supplementary essays? i can’t find it on the program page on trinity’s website, and the calendar doesn’t specify either, but my mom insists that she remembers someone saying i need to write one. thanks in advance! \ud83d\ude42 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi there, on behalf of every u of t student who’s ever made a consequential mistake, i feel for you and want to tell you that things will be okay! it’s great that you’re looking into IR as a backup. honestly, from what i’ve heard, the PCJ program is fantastic and very cool but sometimes a bit disorganized (new instructors cycle through often, the program’s comparatively quite young, etc.). you also have to deal with a lot of big egos because of the high threshold for admission. i double-checked the IR calendar entry and you’re right that it doesn’t mention any essays. if supplementary materials are required, that will always be mentioned in the calendar. but because i know how moms can be, i also asked a friend who applied to IR in summer 2019 to confirm, and they told me that they needed to submit a short essay. so, as one does, i put on my detective hat. i wear a lot of hats around here, but this one’s my favorite. i couldn’t find a gif of The Hat that i liked, so this one will have to do. after that, a little time travel was in order. in summer 2019 (july the second, to be exact), this is what the IR calendar entry looked like. as i expected, all application requirements were listed in the calendar entry, and back then those requirements included a statement of interest \u2014 or an essay. so your mom was\u00a0technically\u00a0correct in the sense that, in the past, an essay was necessary. but given that the page today has removed the “Statement of Interest” bit, i think it’s safe to say that no essay is required. i hope this helps! good luck. 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":[99,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643","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=26643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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