{"id":4736,"date":"2013-03-25T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2016-08-31T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:09:13","slug":"it-st-mikes-actually-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"is st. mike&#8217;s actually religious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>how religious is st mikes? my S has an offer but he didn&#8217;t realize it was a catholic college at the time he was doing the ranking. we are not religious in any way. does this make a difference? is it even possible to get into another college at this stage? thx<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Hey there!<\/p>\n<p>Well, considering university is usually where kids go to indulge in debauchery whenever they goddamn please, I&#8217;m gonna go with &#8220;not very religious at all.&#8221; Naturally, I can&#8217;t speak for everyone, and yeah, they do have a church in their little plot of land, but never have I ever considered St. Mike&#8217;s College to be a religious place. It might&#8217;ve been many many years ago in its founding, but now? Nah. So have no fear. No one&#8217;s going to be pushing their beliefs down your throat or anything equally irritating.<\/p>\n<p>And did he really not realize it&#8217;s Catholic? I mean, it&#8217;s called <em>Saint<\/em> Michael&#8217;s&#8230; Did he confuse the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ST\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;St.&#8221;<\/a> bit of the name with street, perhaps? Straight? Stanza?<\/p>\n<p>But if being in this saintly college is really a problem for him, here&#8217;s what he might have to do:<\/p>\n<p>1.) If he&#8217;s accepted his offer, he&#8217;ll have to write a lovely letter to his new college of choice explaining why, for example, UC is for the one for him and why he&#8217;s the one for UC.<\/p>\n<p>2.) If he has NOT been admitted yet and his status on Join UofT is &#8220;pending&#8221; or &#8220;not complete,&#8221; then he&#8217;ll have to contact Enrollment Services to make the request.<\/p>\n<p>3.) Or lastly, if his status is &#8220;under review&#8221;&#8230;. um, well nothing can be done at the moment, and he&#8217;ll have to wait until he&#8217;s received an offer to proceed into option 1.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how religious is st mikes? my S has an offer but he didn&#8217;t realize it was a catholic college at the time he was doing the ranking. we are not religious in any way. does this make a difference? is it even possible to get into another college at this stage? thx \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Hey there! Well, considering university is usually where kids go to indulge in debauchery whenever they goddamn please, I&#8217;m gonna go with &#8220;not very religious at all.&#8221; Naturally, I can&#8217;t speak for everyone, and yeah, they do have a church in their little plot of land, but never have I ever considered St. Mike&#8217;s College to be a religious place. It might&#8217;ve been many many years ago in its founding, but now? Nah. So have no fear. No one&#8217;s going to be pushing their beliefs down your throat or anything equally irritating. And did he really not realize it&#8217;s Catholic? I mean, it&#8217;s called Saint Michael&#8217;s&#8230; Did he confuse the &#8220;St.&#8221; bit of the name with street, perhaps? Straight? Stanza? But if being in this saintly college is really a problem for him, here&#8217;s what he might have to do: 1.) If he&#8217;s accepted his offer, he&#8217;ll have to write a lovely letter to his new college of choice explaining why, for example, UC is for the one for him and why he&#8217;s the one for UC. 2.) If he has NOT been admitted yet and his status on Join UofT is &#8220;pending&#8221; or &#8220;not complete,&#8221; then he&#8217;ll have to contact Enrollment Services to make the request. 3.) Or lastly, if his status is &#8220;under review&#8221;&#8230;. um, well nothing can be done at the moment, and he&#8217;ll have to wait until he&#8217;s received an offer to proceed into option 1. Hope this helps! 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}