{"id":6162,"date":"2014-01-10T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T21:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:08:41","slug":"the-mysterious-world-of-credit-no-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6162","title":{"rendered":"the mysterious world of credit no-credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>This is a question that should be common, but I can&#8217;t seem to find any information online. What are the consequences, other than not receiving the credit, of getting the NCR designation? I understand that it will not affect my GPA, but will it show up on my transcript? I am not thinking of applying for grad schools at the moment, but would it lower my chances of being accepted? Finally, would a NCR designation hurt my chances of receiving scholarships or getting other honors?<br \/>\nThank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<\/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>sorry you can&#8217;t find any info online &#8211; if it makes you feel any better, i think that not being able to find stuff online is one of the thing that most strongly unites uoft students. just know that when you&#8217;re swearing and crying at xxxx.utoronto.ca at 1am on a monday, you are part of something <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/wandsraisedHP.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GREATER than YOURSELF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>hopefully though i&#8217;ll be able to help you out just a lil&#8217; bit.<\/p>\n<p>so first: the credit does show up on your transcript, but it just indicates pass or no-pass. so anyone looking at a CR\/NCR course designation will KNOW if you&#8217;ve gotten the credit.<\/p>\n<p>numero duo: credit\/no-credit is specific to uoft and a fairly new thing anyway, so there&#8217;s no like universal OPINION CAPITAL-O that grad schools have about it. if the credit is not a requirement for grad school, it shouldn&#8217;t be too much of an issue, especially if it&#8217;s just one random credit. of course not passing a class is always an issue, but if all your other classes are great, i think they&#8217;d be inclined to put less of a focus on it.<\/p>\n<p>numero trois le francais holla: scholarships and awards are highly subjective. there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/yescollege.com\/2013\/04\/100-unique-and-weird-scholarships-worth-applying-for-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">truly bizarre awards<\/a> out there with all kinds of criteria, but if you mean a scholarship based on academic merit from uoft, i&#8217;d say that it might, but since it doesn&#8217;t affect GPA, it&#8217;s still worth it to apply.<\/p>\n<p>hope that helps to clear up your <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/confusedharry.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confuzzlement<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, This is a question that should be common, but I can&#8217;t seem to find any information online. What are the consequences, other than not receiving the credit, of getting the NCR designation? I understand that it will not affect my GPA, but will it show up on my transcript? I am not thinking of applying for grad schools at the moment, but would it lower my chances of being accepted? Finally, would a NCR designation hurt my chances of receiving scholarships or getting other honors? Thank you very much. Cheers \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, sorry you can&#8217;t find any info online &#8211; if it makes you feel any better, i think that not being able to find stuff online is one of the thing that most strongly unites uoft students. just know that when you&#8217;re swearing and crying at xxxx.utoronto.ca at 1am on a monday, you are part of something GREATER than YOURSELF. hopefully though i&#8217;ll be able to help you out just a lil&#8217; bit. so first: the credit does show up on your transcript, but it just indicates pass or no-pass. so anyone looking at a CR\/NCR course designation will KNOW if you&#8217;ve gotten the credit. numero duo: credit\/no-credit is specific to uoft and a fairly new thing anyway, so there&#8217;s no like universal OPINION CAPITAL-O that grad schools have about it. if the credit is not a requirement for grad school, it shouldn&#8217;t be too much of an issue, especially if it&#8217;s just one random credit. of course not passing a class is always an issue, but if all your other classes are great, i think they&#8217;d be inclined to put less of a focus on it. numero trois le francais holla: scholarships and awards are highly subjective. there are some truly bizarre awards out there with all kinds of criteria, but if you mean a scholarship based on academic merit from uoft, i&#8217;d say that it might, but since it doesn&#8217;t affect GPA, it&#8217;s still worth it to apply. hope that helps to clear up your confuzzlement! 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":[150,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crncr","category-grad-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","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=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}