{"id":5150,"date":"2013-06-14T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2015-06-17T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:55:21","slug":"senioritis-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5150","title":{"rendered":"senioritis strikes back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if this is the right place to be asking a question but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My U of T admission says that I must maintain &#8220;consistent&#8221; grades. In my last semester of senior year my grades dropped by around 0.1 GPA (stupid senioritis). Should I be worried or is U of T (engineering) really strict in this matter?<\/p>\n<p>We go by a 4.0 unweighted GPA scale. (4.0 = A = 92.5-100, 3.67 = A- = 89.5-92.4, 3.33 = B+ = 87.5-89.4, etc). Basically in the last semester of my senior year, my physics? grade dropped from an A to a B- while my other grades stayed the same.<\/p>\n<p>?????????<\/p>\n<p>Hey hey<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s only one grade that fell, I don&#8217;t think you should be in tooooo much trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, if you have time left to boost your grade with, say, exams, don&#8217;t screw around! Engineering is super competitive, even if you&#8217;re just applying to ones like Chemical or Civil that seem to require lower grades than Engineering Science.<\/p>\n<p>Screw around when you&#8217;re 100% in. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But to be completely honest, I do find that UofT is quite strict with their conditional offers. It&#8217;s okay to drop a percentage or two, but if you do anything substantial&#8230; yeah. Don&#8217;t do that. Just don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure if this is the right place to be asking a question but&#8230; My U of T admission says that I must maintain &#8220;consistent&#8221; grades. In my last semester of senior year my grades dropped by around 0.1 GPA (stupid senioritis). Should I be worried or is U of T (engineering) really strict in this matter? We go by a 4.0 unweighted GPA scale. (4.0 = A = 92.5-100, 3.67 = A- = 89.5-92.4, 3.33 = B+ = 87.5-89.4, etc). Basically in the last semester of my senior year, my physics? grade dropped from an A to a B- while my other grades stayed the same. ????????? Hey hey If it&#8217;s only one grade that fell, I don&#8217;t think you should be in tooooo much trouble. Granted, if you have time left to boost your grade with, say, exams, don&#8217;t screw around! Engineering is super competitive, even if you&#8217;re just applying to ones like Chemical or Civil that seem to require lower grades than Engineering Science. Screw around when you&#8217;re 100% in. \ud83d\ude09 But to be completely honest, I do find that UofT is quite strict with their conditional offers. It&#8217;s okay to drop a percentage or two, but if you do anything substantial&#8230; yeah. Don&#8217;t do that. Just don&#8217;t. 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