{"id":3630,"date":"2012-02-17T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2016-06-27T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T20:47:27","slug":"no-peer-pressuring-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"no peer pressuring here"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>Hi,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a upcoming college student (college apps are very frustrating!), and I originally set my goals on pursuing dentistry. But after some research I&#8217;ve been seeing so many people say how difficult it is to achieve a good GPA at U of T. Knowing how competitive dentistry is I&#8217;m worried my GPA from my undergrad years just won&#8217;t cut it. Now I&#8217;m left to wonder should I just go to a different school in hopes of achieving a high GPA to come back to U of T for dentistry, would that be a good option? Any help would be greatly appreciated!<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Oh hey you,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be totally honest with you, if dentistry is your goal I would maybe consider going to a different school. U of T doesn&#8217;t care what school you went to for you undergrad, so if you think a different school would help you to get a better CGPA, then go there.<\/p>\n<p>U of T, as one of the top schools in the country does have high standards for their kiddies, so getting awesome grades is slightly harder. I know, what snots. All degrees are just pieces of paper in the end, but some make you work harder for it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh man &#8230; i don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;m ranting about anymore &#8230; need&#8230;sleep &#8230;now.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion &#8230; yah I think it&#8217;s a good plan to go to a different school (if you really want)<\/p>\n<p>soon to be in a fetal position,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m a upcoming college student (college apps are very frustrating!), and I originally set my goals on pursuing dentistry. But after some research I&#8217;ve been seeing so many people say how difficult it is to achieve a good GPA at U of T. Knowing how competitive dentistry is I&#8217;m worried my GPA from my undergrad years just won&#8217;t cut it. Now I&#8217;m left to wonder should I just go to a different school in hopes of achieving a high GPA to come back to U of T for dentistry, would that be a good option? Any help would be greatly appreciated! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Oh hey you, I&#8217;m going to be totally honest with you, if dentistry is your goal I would maybe consider going to a different school. U of T doesn&#8217;t care what school you went to for you undergrad, so if you think a different school would help you to get a better CGPA, then go there. U of T, as one of the top schools in the country does have high standards for their kiddies, so getting awesome grades is slightly harder. I know, what snots. All degrees are just pieces of paper in the end, but some make you work harder for it. Oh man &#8230; i don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;m ranting about anymore &#8230; need&#8230;sleep &#8230;now. In conclusion &#8230; yah I think it&#8217;s a good plan to go to a different school (if you really want) soon to be in a fetal position, 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":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dentistry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","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=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}