{"id":5771,"date":"2013-11-07T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2019-08-18T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:22:41","slug":"traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5771","title":{"rendered":"traitor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a student at UTM planning on transferring to a different university next year. I applied and my transcripts have been sent and everything! But?there&#8217;s this one course (that one course ugh) that will bring my GPA down. I selected the credit\/no credit option for that course, but not before the?transcript was already transmitted to the university I applied to. Would they even see the credit\/no credit option on the transcript? Or would they?see my grade in the course regardless?<\/p>\n<p>Also how bad would it look on my transcript if I were to drop that course now&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nI want to leave.<\/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>firstly, I am INCREDIBLY INSULTED that you&#8217;re transferring. How could you transfer. How. Could you. I thought we had something special. The other school&#8217;s thinner than me, isn&#8217;t it? ISN&#8217;T IT?<\/p>\n<p>Ahem. It&#8217;s fine. No, don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>As to your (traitorous) dilemma, basically, if you&#8217;ve sent in a transcript in september or october, all your courses are going to show up as &#8216;in progress&#8217; to the school you&#8217;re applying to. So whether you selected credit\/no credit before or after sending it, it&#8217;ll look the same to the other school. If this is the only transcript they require, then it really doesn&#8217;t matter how the course turns out.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you have to send another transcript once the term is over, then they will see that you made it credit\/no-credit, and they will see if you&#8217;ve dropped the course. Generally, unless that course is a requirement for you to transfer, dropping it is probably going to be a better idea than having a bad mark show up on your transcript. It really depends on your situation though, so I&#8217;d suggest talking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/about-us\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UTM registrar&#8217;s office<\/a> or maybe the admissions office at your new school about your situation.<\/p>\n<p>good luck you uoft-<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com\/5620132247162.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">betraying swine<\/a>. I hope the other school is good enough for you sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska! I&#8217;m a student at UTM planning on transferring to a different university next year. I applied and my transcripts have been sent and everything! But?there&#8217;s this one course (that one course ugh) that will bring my GPA down. I selected the credit\/no credit option for that course, but not before the?transcript was already transmitted to the university I applied to. Would they even see the credit\/no credit option on the transcript? Or would they?see my grade in the course regardless? Also how bad would it look on my transcript if I were to drop that course now&#8230;. Cheers, I want to leave. \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, firstly, I am INCREDIBLY INSULTED that you&#8217;re transferring. How could you transfer. How. Could you. I thought we had something special. The other school&#8217;s thinner than me, isn&#8217;t it? ISN&#8217;T IT? Ahem. It&#8217;s fine. No, don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ll be fine. As to your (traitorous) dilemma, basically, if you&#8217;ve sent in a transcript in september or october, all your courses are going to show up as &#8216;in progress&#8217; to the school you&#8217;re applying to. So whether you selected credit\/no credit before or after sending it, it&#8217;ll look the same to the other school. If this is the only transcript they require, then it really doesn&#8217;t matter how the course turns out. However, if you have to send another transcript once the term is over, then they will see that you made it credit\/no-credit, and they will see if you&#8217;ve dropped the course. Generally, unless that course is a requirement for you to transfer, dropping it is probably going to be a better idea than having a bad mark show up on your transcript. It really depends on your situation though, so I&#8217;d suggest talking to the UTM registrar&#8217;s office or maybe the admissions office at your new school about your situation. good luck you uoft-betraying swine. I hope the other school is good enough for you sheesh. 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":[150,156,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crncr","category-dropping-courses","category-transferring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771","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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}