{"id":27938,"date":"2023-12-19T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=27938"},"modified":"2023-12-19T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:27:55","slug":"here-are-the-2-crumbs-i-found-while-searching-for-grad-school-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=27938","title":{"rendered":"here are the 2 crumbs i found while searching for grad school policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hi, i have 4 courses right now and i really want to CR a course (i will pass thankfully). however, i don&#8217;t know how a CR will be considered by law schools, med schools and grad schools. if i don&#8217;t CR, i end with a C and while i know uoft med school drops your lowest 2 FCEs and uoft law school only looks at your best overall 3 years of undergraduate study, i don&#8217;t know their policy on CR on a transcript. i&#8217;d really like to avoid keeping the C if i can. please let me know. thank you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>so it seems like you&#8217;re asking whether a CR on your transcript will impact your admission into grad schools. the thing is, each law school, med school, and grad school program may have a separate policy on this. so i think the best thing you can do is just reach out to the places you&#8217;re interested in and see what they say.<\/p>\n<p>this is such a valid question, by the way. you probably scoured the internet trying to find an answer and came up empty handed, because so did i.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/uIu5b0YYpTPR6\/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47c352e5b6ea18f5785c75743a52b8fd5a81920fcd&amp;ep=v1_user_favorites&amp;rid=giphy.gif&amp;ct=g\" alt=\"The Office Love GIF\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i did however, find a couple crumbs:<\/p>\n<p>some places have FAQs where they may or may not answer this question. first, <a href=\"https:\/\/applymd.utoronto.ca\/faq\/frequently-asked-questions-admissions#\">uoft med school<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.utoronto.ca\/jd-admissions-faq\">uoft law school FAQs <\/a>both do mention CR\/NCR grades, though only in the context of covid-19&#8217;s impacts in 2020. second, the law school has a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.utoronto.ca\/jd-admissions-updates\"> page last updated in 2021<\/a> that says they consider a CR grade to be a successfully completed course, and that they &#8220;will not hold CR grades against an applicant&#8221;. <em>but<\/em>, keep in mind this in regards to academic grades during 2019-2020, so it might not be relevant anymore.<\/p>\n<p>so you could absolutely contact admissions directly about this, and follow up about whether this is still true. their email is on that page, and i don&#8217;t think it would hurt to ask!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/FMGgJNg1L9F1PF5IOZ\/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e4793c11f4e8dfe2e0113bc1507ff880debb0da27da&amp;ep=v1_user_favorites&amp;rid=giphy.gif&amp;ct=g\" alt=\"I Got This Reaction GIF by CBC\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sorry i don&#8217;t have a better answer, but i do think it&#8217;s best if you contact the grad schools directly. programs do change their policies, so i don&#8217;t want to tell you something wrong, especially with decisions that impact your future.<\/p>\n<p>anyways, i hope everything works out for you, sending lots of encouragement!!<\/p>\n<p>over and out,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hi, i have 4 courses right now and i really want to CR a course (i will pass thankfully). however, i don&#8217;t know how a CR will be considered by law schools, med schools and grad schools. if i don&#8217;t CR, i end with a C and while i know uoft med school drops your lowest 2 FCEs and uoft law school only looks at your best overall 3 years of undergraduate study, i don&#8217;t know their policy on CR on a transcript. i&#8217;d really like to avoid keeping the C if i can. please let me know. thank you. hey there, so it seems like you&#8217;re asking whether a CR on your transcript will impact your admission into grad schools. the thing is, each law school, med school, and grad school program may have a separate policy on this. so i think the best thing you can do is just reach out to the places you&#8217;re interested in and see what they say. this is such a valid question, by the way. you probably scoured the internet trying to find an answer and came up empty handed, because so did i. i did however, find a couple crumbs: some places have FAQs where they may or may not answer this question. first, uoft med school and uoft law school FAQs both do mention CR\/NCR grades, though only in the context of covid-19&#8217;s impacts in 2020. second, the law school has a page last updated in 2021 that says they consider a CR grade to be a successfully completed course, and that they &#8220;will not hold CR grades against an applicant&#8221;. but, keep in mind this in regards to academic grades during 2019-2020, so it might not be relevant anymore. so you could absolutely contact admissions directly about this, and follow up about whether this is still true. their email is on that page, and i don&#8217;t think it would hurt to ask! i&#8217;m sorry i don&#8217;t have a better answer, but i do think it&#8217;s best if you contact the grad schools directly. programs do change their policies, so i don&#8217;t want to tell you something wrong, especially with decisions that impact your future. anyways, i hope everything works out for you, sending lots of encouragement!! over and out, 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":[150,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crncr","category-grad-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938","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=27938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}