{"id":27162,"date":"2022-08-15T20:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=27162"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:07:57","slug":"more-waitlist-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=27162","title":{"rendered":"more waitlist woes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"IxFyd\">\n<div class=\"k31gt\">\n<p>If there is a waitlist of 40+ people for an fsc course, do you think it&#8217;ll be offered in summer? Its fsc316 and it was only offered once in summer in 2021. FSC minors need it too but they only offer a few spots and the majors and specialists take those:(<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>first of all, that&#8217;s a friggin cool program! although i must admit i had to look up fsc to realize that it wasn&#8217;t french (fsl) but actually FORENSIC SCIENCE\u00a0 like woah.<\/p>\n<p>to be honest, i don&#8217;t really know, but since this course hasn&#8217;t really been offered in previous summers, i wouldn&#8217;t bank on it happening this year. i mean sure, it <em>might, <\/em>but that probably depends on a lot of different factors, and just because a course has a long waitlist doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;ll offer more sessions of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\" data-postid=\"4708593\" data-share-method=\"host\" data-aspect-ratio=\"2\" data-width=\"60%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/no-nones-nop-workaholics-gif-4708593\">No Workaholics GIF<\/a>from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/no-gifs\">No GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>i did do some digging into the fsc minor though, and according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/utm.calendar.utoronto.ca\/section\/Forensic-Science\">utm academic calendar<\/a>, it seems that fsc316 isn&#8217;t actually required. i don&#8217;t wanna be that guy going &#8216;ok but do you <em>need <\/em>that course&#8217;, but you might wanna take another look at what exactly is required for your program, in case you could take a different course instead? for example, the utm calendar lists fsc316 as part of list of a\u00a0<em>bunch\u00a0<\/em>of courses, and out of those, you&#8217;re supposed to take 0.5 FCEs \u2014 so any other half year course on there should do!<\/p>\n<p>however, if you&#8217;ve now developed an emotional attachment to getting into this course \u2014 i understand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tenor-gif-embed\" data-postid=\"8603966\" data-share-method=\"host\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.50235\" data-width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/view\/dallas-buyers-club-dallas-buyers-club-gifs-matthew-mc-conaughey-addiction-help-gif-8603966\">I Need It GIF<\/a>from <a href=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/search\/dallas+buyers+club-gifs\">Dallas Buyers Club GIFs<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" async src=\"https:\/\/tenor.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>assuming you&#8217;re in third year right now, so one possible strat is to try getting into the course in your fourth year, since you&#8217;ll have higher priority in course selections. that could get tricky though if the course has other types of priority enrolment for specialists\/majors etc, so if you&#8217;re hoping to go down this route, i&#8217;d recommend emailing your department or the course instructor to ask about their process for this. another potential issue is that this may throw a wrench in some of your fourth year course plans, if fsc316 is a prereq for anything else you&#8217;re interested in.<\/p>\n<p>if you do end up really needing the course, i&#8217;d also recommend asking your <a href=\"https:\/\/utm.utoronto.ca\/registrar\/office-registrar\">registrar<\/a> for tips. for example, 4th year arts and science students at utsg get a special lil dean&#8217;s promise that we can invoke to get into mandatory courses that are required to graduate, and although i&#8217;m not sure if utm has a similar thing, it doesn&#8217;t hurt to ask around and see if there&#8217;s anything else you could do.<\/p>\n<p>best of luck!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is a waitlist of 40+ people for an fsc course, do you think it&#8217;ll be offered in summer? Its fsc316 and it was only offered once in summer in 2021. FSC minors need it too but they only offer a few spots and the majors and specialists take those:( hey there, first of all, that&#8217;s a friggin cool program! although i must admit i had to look up fsc to realize that it wasn&#8217;t french (fsl) but actually FORENSIC SCIENCE\u00a0 like woah. to be honest, i don&#8217;t really know, but since this course hasn&#8217;t really been offered in previous summers, i wouldn&#8217;t bank on it happening this year. i mean sure, it might, but that probably depends on a lot of different factors, and just because a course has a long waitlist doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;ll offer more sessions of it. No Workaholics GIFfrom No GIFs i did do some digging into the fsc minor though, and according to the utm academic calendar, it seems that fsc316 isn&#8217;t actually required. i don&#8217;t wanna be that guy going &#8216;ok but do you need that course&#8217;, but you might wanna take another look at what exactly is required for your program, in case you could take a different course instead? for example, the utm calendar lists fsc316 as part of list of a\u00a0bunch\u00a0of courses, and out of those, you&#8217;re supposed to take 0.5 FCEs \u2014 so any other half year course on there should do! however, if you&#8217;ve now developed an emotional attachment to getting into this course \u2014 i understand. I Need It GIFfrom Dallas Buyers Club GIFs assuming you&#8217;re in third year right now, so one possible strat is to try getting into the course in your fourth year, since you&#8217;ll have higher priority in course selections. that could get tricky though if the course has other types of priority enrolment for specialists\/majors etc, so if you&#8217;re hoping to go down this route, i&#8217;d recommend emailing your department or the course instructor to ask about their process for this. another potential issue is that this may throw a wrench in some of your fourth year course plans, if fsc316 is a prereq for anything else you&#8217;re interested in. if you do end up really needing the course, i&#8217;d also recommend asking your registrar for tips. for example, 4th year arts and science students at utsg get a special lil dean&#8217;s promise that we can invoke to get into mandatory courses that are required to graduate, and although i&#8217;m not sure if utm has a similar thing, it doesn&#8217;t hurt to ask around and see if there&#8217;s anything else you could do. best of luck! 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":[6,320,194,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-current-student","category-forensic-science","category-wait-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162","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=27162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}