{"id":4834,"date":"2013-04-25T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:04:09","slug":"can-we-excuse-the-exclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"can we excuse the exclusions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,I did a course, changed my major and now am being forced to take an exclusion to the course. Usually they use the first mark on your transcript. Is there anyway I can get them to use the second mark. Any place I can petition, especially if its a significant difference?<\/p>\n<p>Thanksfromyetanotherdisorganizedstudent<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Love the name!<\/p>\n<p>So basically, I had to go to the higher ups before giving you a definitive answer, but no, there&#8217;s no getting around the rule on exclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, the things is courses are usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsandscience.utoronto.ca\/ofr\/calendar\/Guide_to_Program_&amp;_Course_Descriptions.html\" target=\"_blank\">exclusions<\/a> of each other because they cover pretty similar content. So say you got a 70 in the first course you took. Good. Then you took the second one, had a moment of &#8220;Oh, wow, I know half of this crap already!&#8221; and bam, you end up with a 77.<\/p>\n<p>See why they won&#8217;t let you switch things around?<\/p>\n<p>Doing better is, quite often, a result of having gone through the first course. Sorry about that!<\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,I did a course, changed my major and now am being forced to take an exclusion to the course. Usually they use the first mark on your transcript. Is there anyway I can get them to use the second mark. Any place I can petition, especially if its a significant difference? Thanksfromyetanotherdisorganizedstudent \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Love the name! So basically, I had to go to the higher ups before giving you a definitive answer, but no, there&#8217;s no getting around the rule on exclusions. Why? Well, the things is courses are usually exclusions of each other because they cover pretty similar content. So say you got a 70 in the first course you took. Good. Then you took the second one, had a moment of &#8220;Oh, wow, I know half of this crap already!&#8221; and bam, you end up with a 77. See why they won&#8217;t let you switch things around? Doing better is, quite often, a result of having gone through the first course. 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