{"id":29359,"date":"2026-01-03T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=29359"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:33:13","slug":"my-passion-project-passing-my-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=29359","title":{"rendered":"my passion project? passing my classes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m<\/span>\u00a0a Grade 10 student with an 80s average and I\u00a0<\/span>wanna<\/span>\u00a0get into\u00a0<\/span>UofT<\/span>\u00a0or UTSC and major in something like medical science. However, I am not in ANY clubs or anything and have done\u00a0<\/span>basica<\/span>ll<\/span>y<\/span>\u00a0nothing<\/span>\u00a0outside of passing my classes. Do passion projects really matter for\u00a0<\/span>UofT<\/span>\u00a0acceptance? What can I even do now\u00a0<\/span>I’m<\/span>\u00a0sorry<\/span><\/p>\n

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

no need to apologize, questions are literally what i’m here for. and i mean literally. that’s kinda the whole point of my life, actually.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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and i have more good news for you: you have absolutely no reason to worry about not doing any clubs or ecs in high school. this is because at uoft, the programs most people interested in med sci apply to (life sci at utsg<\/a> or life sci\/health sci at utsc<\/a>), only require grades. yippee! <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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your average is in a pretty solid place right now, too, since utsg life sci is looking for a mid-high 80s average<\/a>. both life sci<\/a> and health sci<\/a> at utsc want you to aim for mid-high 70s. <\/span>so no, passion projects do not matter for the kinda programs you’d probably be interested in. unless your passion project is, as you say, passing your classes, which is a pretty important project i guess.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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for right now just focus on keeping your grades consistent, around mid-high 80s for utsg. since you\u2019re only in grade 10, you don\u2019t have to worry about your grades this year, as uoft only looks at grade 11 and 12 marks.<\/span> while it’s great to get into good study habits early, and ecs could open doors to job opportunities later on, you can mostly chillax for now and focus on the totally valid passion projects of hanging out with your friends and doomscrolling. oh, and passing your classes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

I’m\u00a0a Grade 10 student with an 80s average and I\u00a0wanna\u00a0get into\u00a0UofT\u00a0or UTSC and major in something like medical science. However, I am not in ANY clubs or anything and have done\u00a0basically\u00a0nothing\u00a0outside of passing my classes. Do passion projects really matter for\u00a0UofT\u00a0acceptance? What can I even do now\u00a0I’m\u00a0sorry heyyo,\u00a0 no need to apologize, questions are literally what i’m here for. and i mean literally. that’s kinda the whole point of my life, actually.\u00a0 and i have more good news for you: you have absolutely no reason to worry about not doing any clubs or ecs in high school. this is because at uoft, the programs most people interested in med sci apply to (life sci at utsg or life sci\/health sci at utsc), only require grades. yippee! \u00a0 your average is in a pretty solid place right now, too, since utsg life sci is looking for a mid-high 80s average. both life sci and health sci at utsc want you to aim for mid-high 70s. so no, passion projects do not matter for the kinda programs you’d probably be interested in. unless your passion project is, as you say, passing your classes, which is a pretty important project i guess.\u00a0 for right now just focus on keeping your grades consistent, around mid-high 80s for utsg. since you\u2019re only in grade 10, you don\u2019t have to worry about your grades this year, as uoft only looks at grade 11 and 12 marks. while it’s great to get into good study habits early, and ecs could open doors to job opportunities later on, you can mostly chillax for now and focus on the totally valid passion projects of hanging out with your friends and doomscrolling. oh, and passing your classes. 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":[10,11,245,110,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions","category-arts-sciences","category-getting-into-u-of-t","category-life-science","category-utsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359","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=29359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}