{"id":4575,"date":"2013-01-16T09:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2016-06-27T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:24:50","slug":"dropping-courses-like-its-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4575","title":{"rendered":"dropping courses like it’s hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi i am a first year student at UTM and I am enrolled in 8 courses (2 full year) for a total of 5 credits. Only two courses are prerequisites for my program. Is it ok for me to drop one of the other courses? Are 5 100 level credits mandatory?<\/p>\n

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hey hey!<\/p>\n

No amount of credits is ever actually “mandatory,” really, so long as you don’t try going over six that semester (but that’s a whole other story that I won’t get into). However, to be considered a full-time student, you need to be in at least 3.0 FCE for that academic year.<\/p>\n

So if you end up with 4.0 or 4.5 100-level FCE, that’s totally fine. Personally, in my first-year I spent my second semester sobbing over my fall grades and dropped one of the half-credits in the winter so that I could “concentrate better.” Naturally, that was a complete lie and I’ve maintained my horrible, horrible procrastinating ways since. That being said, as long as you don’t have any more than 6.0 100-levels<\/a>, you’re good! Anything less than that is fine.<\/p>\n

First year can be stressful, so don’t feel pressured to stay in a class if you think it’ll hinder you for all the other ones. And if you do drop it, make sure you use your time wisely<\/a>! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

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

Hi i am a first year student at UTM and I am enrolled in 8 courses (2 full year) for a total of 5 credits. Only two courses are prerequisites for my program. Is it ok for me to drop one of the other courses? Are 5 100 level credits mandatory? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey hey! No amount of credits is ever actually “mandatory,” really, so long as you don’t try going over six that semester (but that’s a whole other story that I won’t get into). However, to be considered a full-time student, you need to be in at least 3.0 FCE for that academic year. So if you end up with 4.0 or 4.5 100-level FCE, that’s totally fine. Personally, in my first-year I spent my second semester sobbing over my fall grades and dropped one of the half-credits in the winter so that I could “concentrate better.” Naturally, that was a complete lie and I’ve maintained my horrible, horrible procrastinating ways since. That being said, as long as you don’t have any more than 6.0 100-levels, you’re good! Anything less than that is fine. First year can be stressful, so don’t feel pressured to stay in a class if you think it’ll hinder you for all the other ones. And if you do drop it, make sure you use your time wisely! \ud83d\ude09 Cheers! 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":[156,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dropping-courses","category-utm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575","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=4575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}