{"id":5737,"date":"2013-10-31T12:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2019-08-18T03:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:24:35","slug":"everyone-is-panicking-about-admissions-oh-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5737","title":{"rendered":"everyone is panicking about admissions oh god."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I study in year 10 and in an cbse school. I want to take up science but I am very weak in it. I am good in biology and I know that because of my grades and understanding. I really want to be a gynaecologist but I cant because of my grades. I doubt I can take up science also. I am in desperate need of help. Please tell me what to do.<\/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>I understand where you&#8217;re coming from. Students all over the world right now are experiencing exactly the same thing you&#8217;re experiencing &#8211; they&#8217;re afraid they&#8217;re not good enough, and they are generally convinced that they are going to <a href=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m6ld4uRWdB1qh7d0do2_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fail<\/a>. Man, I can&#8217;t blame you. Going to university is<a href=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mdti2qCW0F1qmitico1_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> incredibly scary<\/a>, especially if you&#8217;re planning to go to school in a different country.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing you go to school in India, meaning this is the year you&#8217;re doing\/have already done your AISSCE examinations, and that has got to be really stressful. Just know that even if you don&#8217;t do as well as you hoped you would, you have two whole years to improve.<\/p>\n<p>That said, if you&#8217;re thinking of coming to UofT and you eventually want to go to medical school, you&#8217;ll probably want to enrol in the BSc. Life Science program. If you like Biology, there&#8217;s a Biology major available, where you get to focus on Biology, which is what you seem to feel most comfortable with. The requirements for that program are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adm.utoronto.ca\/admissions\/?selections.domain=ADM&amp;selections.name=SUBPAGE1&amp;selections%5B%5D=2D222222222222222222222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=2222222IN22222222222222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=22222222222222B22222222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;selections%5B%5D=222222222222222222D2222222222222&amp;selections%5B%5D=&amp;submit=Go+find+my+Admission+Information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Like I said, you&#8217;ve still got some time to figure all this out, but if you want to feel a little less worried, take a look at the requirements and see if you think you could handle them.<\/p>\n<p>If it turns out that in two years you don&#8217;t meet the requirements, then maybe you can take some time to think about what it is you would be most comfortable doing. However, you&#8217;re only in year 10 now and there&#8217;s plenty of time to figure all this out and get your grades up if you have to &#8211; so <a href=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/AUxZRS-8Ir8\/hqdefault.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">don&#8217;t worry<\/a>! If you are careful about researching the best possible option for you, you won&#8217;t go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I study in year 10 and in an cbse school. I want to take up science but I am very weak in it. I am good in biology and I know that because of my grades and understanding. I really want to be a gynaecologist but I cant because of my grades. I doubt I can take up science also. I am in desperate need of help. Please tell me what to do. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, I understand where you&#8217;re coming from. Students all over the world right now are experiencing exactly the same thing you&#8217;re experiencing &#8211; they&#8217;re afraid they&#8217;re not good enough, and they are generally convinced that they are going to fail. Man, I can&#8217;t blame you. Going to university is incredibly scary, especially if you&#8217;re planning to go to school in a different country. I&#8217;m guessing you go to school in India, meaning this is the year you&#8217;re doing\/have already done your AISSCE examinations, and that has got to be really stressful. Just know that even if you don&#8217;t do as well as you hoped you would, you have two whole years to improve. That said, if you&#8217;re thinking of coming to UofT and you eventually want to go to medical school, you&#8217;ll probably want to enrol in the BSc. Life Science program. If you like Biology, there&#8217;s a Biology major available, where you get to focus on Biology, which is what you seem to feel most comfortable with. The requirements for that program are here. Like I said, you&#8217;ve still got some time to figure all this out, but if you want to feel a little less worried, take a look at the requirements and see if you think you could handle them. If it turns out that in two years you don&#8217;t meet the requirements, then maybe you can take some time to think about what it is you would be most comfortable doing. However, you&#8217;re only in year 10 now and there&#8217;s plenty of time to figure all this out and get your grades up if you have to &#8211; so don&#8217;t worry! If you are careful about researching the best possible option for you, you won&#8217;t go wrong. 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":[10,148,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissions","category-international-students","category-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","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=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}