Dear Aska,<\/p>\n
At McMaster where I’m at now, student numbers start with the year you enrolled in. (Mine starts with “06”.) I just got in U of T for a grad program and was given a student number that starts with “99” – what the heck?<\/p>\n
I was “enrolled” in U of T for a high school thing (DEEP, not sure if it’s still a thing) in the summer of 2005, though I can’t remember if I was given a number then. Is that why my third number is “5”? But seriously, what is up with the “99”?<\/p>\n
Sincerely,<\/p>\n
Rosemary<\/p>\n
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Hey Rosemary,<\/p>\n
Are you worried about people finding out your age from your student number? Well have no fear because U of T student numbers don’t represent anything other than what student you are, so the person after you will be one number higher. I.e the first person would have just been “1”. This was actually a pretty big year for U of T because we used up all of our “999” numbers and had to add a digit.<\/p>\n
Apparently U of T went the basic route of issuing student numbers in a numerical order.<\/p>\n
cupcakes and zombies,<\/p>\n
aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Aska, At McMaster where I’m at now, student numbers start with the year you enrolled in. (Mine starts with “06”.) I just got in U of T for a grad program and was given a student number that starts with “99” – what the heck? I was “enrolled” in U of T for a high school thing (DEEP, not sure if it’s still a thing) in the summer of 2005, though I can’t remember if I was given a number then. Is that why my third number is “5”? But seriously, what is up with the “99”? Sincerely, Rosemary \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey Rosemary, Are you worried about people finding out your age from your student number? Well have no fear because U of T student numbers don’t represent anything other than what student you are, so the person after you will be one number higher. I.e the first person would have just been “1”. This was actually a pretty big year for U of T because we used up all of our “999” numbers and had to add a digit. Apparently U of T went the basic route of issuing student numbers in a numerical order. cupcakes and zombies, 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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","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=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}