{"id":574,"date":"2007-07-31T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=574"},"modified":"2007-07-31T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T14:42:00","slug":"blame-your-highschool-math-teacher-for-being-the-chupacabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"blame your highschool math teacher for being the chupacabra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Hi Aska! This site has saved me from many, many anxiety attacks. I am going into<br \/>\nsecond year and recently re-read my offer of admission. It says Congrats! You<br \/>\nare in Humanities and Social Science! Only I just realised that Psychology, my<br \/>\nspecialist of choice, is considered Science. Yet I have 80% in PSY100H.<\/p>\n<p>The real issue: I do not have any high school math after grade 10 college math.<br \/>\nApparently calculus is required as of 2006 for admission into any minor, major<br \/>\nor specialist PoST in Psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Questions:<\/p>\n<p>1) Do I have to go back to high school to get calculus (I don&#8217;t mind, I&#8217;ll just<br \/>\ngo to a semestered night school and bribe a tutor with ridiculous amounts of<br \/>\nmoney)?<\/p>\n<p>2) If not, does U of T have a foundations course that I can take to satisfy the<br \/>\nMCB4U high school pre-req? If it&#8217;s a review course I can&#8217;t take it, I&#8217;d fail.<\/p>\n<p>3) Is begging to waive the high school pre-req an option? I feel confident I<br \/>\ncan take statistics (a pre-req for psych) with no math background because I<br \/>\nhave access to many tutors and a lot more motivation now than I did in grade<br \/>\n10. I just want the specialist in Psych, not admission into med schooL!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks a million!<\/p>\n<p>~Cursed by Calculus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/48191345_89bdb64b97.jpg\" alt=\"jumphoop\" height=\"343\" width=\"287\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>so why is it that highschool calculus isn&#8217;t required to take psy100, but it&#8217;s a requirement for the subject post?  as we all know, it&#8217;s because psych is a complex deathtrap.  they psych department is absolutely inflexible about the mathlacking.  you have options, though: you can take a highschool math course, your &#8216;spend lots of money on tutors and private school classes&#8217; sounds like a good one.  additionally, the math department offers a summer program for students to get the math requirements out of the way.  the program is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.utoronto.ca\/pump\/\" title=\"math program\" target=\"_blank\">PUMP (preparing for university math program)<\/a>&#8230;.should it be P.U.M.P. ?  seems like the acronyms don&#8217;t have punctuation anymore these days.  anyways, PUMP costs 600 dollars and lasts a few weeks in the summer.   jump through that last hoop and you&#8217;re golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Aska! This site has saved me from many, many anxiety attacks. I am going into second year and recently re-read my offer of admission. It says Congrats! You are in Humanities and Social Science! Only I just realised that Psychology, my specialist of choice, is considered Science. Yet I have 80% in PSY100H. The real issue: I do not have any high school math after grade 10 college math. Apparently calculus is required as of 2006 for admission into any minor, major or specialist PoST in Psychology. Questions: 1) Do I have to go back to high school to get calculus (I don&#8217;t mind, I&#8217;ll just go to a semestered night school and bribe a tutor with ridiculous amounts of money)? 2) If not, does U of T have a foundations course that I can take to satisfy the MCB4U high school pre-req? If it&#8217;s a review course I can&#8217;t take it, I&#8217;d fail. 3) Is begging to waive the high school pre-req an option? I feel confident I can take statistics (a pre-req for psych) with no math background because I have access to many tutors and a lot more motivation now than I did in grade 10. I just want the specialist in Psych, not admission into med schooL! Thanks a million! ~Cursed by Calculus<\/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":[45,63,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-psychology","category-subject-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hi Aska! This site has saved me from many, many anxiety attacks. I am going into second year and recently re-read my offer of admission. It says Congrats! You are in Humanities and Social Science! 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