{"id":29291,"date":"2025-11-08T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=29291"},"modified":"2025-11-08T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T20:27:43","slug":"no-skipping-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=29291","title":{"rendered":"no skipping the line"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m<\/span> a <\/span>uoft<\/span> st<\/span> george<\/span> undergrad<\/span> student doing a double major in two <\/span>lifesci<\/span> programs. Is it possible for me to graduate with a <\/span>bsc<\/span> instead of an <\/span>hbsc<\/span>? Like if <\/span>i<\/span> wanted to finish in 3 years instead of 4 years and do <\/span>less<\/span> courses as a result.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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heyyo,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ah, i get it, there would be nothing sweeter than finishing uni in three years, right? you’d get to laugh at your friends while they’d still have to trudge through another years’ worth of midterms and projects and exams.<\/span><\/p>\n

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but as great as that sounds, unless you take courses in the summer or extra courses during the year, there isn\u2019t much you can do to make it happen.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

when it comes to honours degrees, uoft is quite unique (how many times have i said that? we always have to be special). unlike other unis, <\/span>all bachelor’s degrees in artsci are honours by default. the only way to graduate with a non-honours degree is if you have a CGPA between 1.5 and 1.85 but fulfill all the other requirements for graduation.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

so you can’t choose to get a non-honours degree unless you have a CGPA below 1.85. no matter what, if you want out of here, you\u2019ve gotta get your 20.0 credits. no skipping the line. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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i know, having to stay here for 4 years isn\u2019t easy, but hey, you\u2019re trapped here now, so make the most of it! i’d say uoft is probably one of the best places to be stuck at for four years. you may not graduate in three years, but at least you\u2019ll have an extra year of eating from the pink food truck!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

cheers,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

aska<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a uoft st george undergrad student doing a double major in two lifesci programs. Is it possible for me to graduate with a bsc instead of an hbsc? Like if i wanted to finish in 3 years instead of 4 years and do less courses as a result.\u00a0 heyyo,\u00a0 ah, i get it, there would be nothing sweeter than finishing uni in three years, right? you’d get to laugh at your friends while they’d still have to trudge through another years’ worth of midterms and projects and exams. but as great as that sounds, unless you take courses in the summer or extra courses during the year, there isn\u2019t much you can do to make it happen.\u00a0 when it comes to honours degrees, uoft is quite unique (how many times have i said that? we always have to be special). unlike other unis, all bachelor’s degrees in artsci are honours by default. the only way to graduate with a non-honours degree is if you have a CGPA between 1.5 and 1.85 but fulfill all the other requirements for graduation.\u00a0 so you can’t choose to get a non-honours degree unless you have a CGPA below 1.85. no matter what, if you want out of here, you\u2019ve gotta get your 20.0 credits. no skipping the line. \u00a0 i know, having to stay here for 4 years isn\u2019t easy, but hey, you\u2019re trapped here now, so make the most of it! i’d say uoft is probably one of the best places to be stuck at for four years. you may not graduate in three years, but at least you\u2019ll have an extra year of eating from the pink food truck!\u00a0 cheers,\u00a0 aska\u00a0<\/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":[254,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credits","category-degree-requirements"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","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=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}