{"id":3841,"date":"2012-06-21T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:57:57","slug":"bill-nye-the-political-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=3841","title":{"rendered":"Bill Nye the political guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to declare a political science major at the end of third year? The academic calendar only outlines the requirements for students applying at the end of second year. I was wondering if there really is a difference between enrolling after second year or third year.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why I haven&#8217;t enrolled in the political science major just yet is because I have yet to fulfill the requirements. I will have fulfilled them by the end of third year though. Can I still apply then?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; UTM student \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Yo Gee,<br \/>\nYou betcha! It seems that this is just a confusion of sneaky wording. Let&#8217;s break it down now:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Limited Enrolment&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;Students enrolling at the end of first year (4.0 credits) must obtain a CGPA of at least 2.00 and a mark of at least 65% in 1.0 POL credit. Students applying to enrol after second year (8.0 credits) must obtain a CGPA of at least 2.30 and a mark of at least 70% in each of 2.0 POL credits. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So you can apply at the end of first year or &#8220;after&#8221; 2nd year. If they had said at the end of 2nd year, then I don&#8217;t think you would be able to apply but because 3rd and 4th year are all after 2nd, then you can for sure apply!<\/p>\n<p>Happy political sciencing,<\/p>\n<p>forever watching Bill Nye &#8230; the science guy,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Is it possible to declare a political science major at the end of third year? The academic calendar only outlines the requirements for students applying at the end of second year. I was wondering if there really is a difference between enrolling after second year or third year. The reason why I haven&#8217;t enrolled in the political science major just yet is because I have yet to fulfill the requirements. I will have fulfilled them by the end of third year though. Can I still apply then? &#8211; UTM student \ud83d\ude42 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Yo Gee, You betcha! It seems that this is just a confusion of sneaky wording. Let&#8217;s break it down now: &#8220;Limited Enrolment&#8221;\u00a0&#8211;Students enrolling at the end of first year (4.0 credits) must obtain a CGPA of at least 2.00 and a mark of at least 65% in 1.0 POL credit. Students applying to enrol after second year (8.0 credits) must obtain a CGPA of at least 2.30 and a mark of at least 70% in each of 2.0 POL credits. &#8221; So you can apply at the end of first year or &#8220;after&#8221; 2nd year. If they had said at the end of 2nd year, then I don&#8217;t think you would be able to apply but because 3rd and 4th year are all after 2nd, then you can for sure apply! Happy political sciencing, forever watching Bill Nye &#8230; the science guy, aska &nbsp;<\/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":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polisci"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","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=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}