{"id":6251,"date":"2014-01-15T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2019-08-17T15:02:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T19:02:49","slug":"the-deans-promise-fact-or-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"the dean&#8217;s promise: fact or myth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey aska,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fourth year student aiming to graduate in June. My GPA is fine, but?I&#8217;ve made stupid choices during course selection and now because of course?conflicts, I&#8217;m 1.0 credit behind! How does the dean&#8217;s promise work??Graduation requests close on the 26th. :&lt;<\/p>\n<p>?????????<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>the dean&#8217;s promise isn&#8217;t actually a concrete thing, unfortunately. i know it sounds like it should be. i mean, it&#8217;s a PROMISE, right? it MATTERS. yeah, not really. all the dean&#8217;s promise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/timetable\/1415_fw\/instructions-for-graduating-students\/?searchterm=dean's%20promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">really says<\/a> is that they&#8217;ll do everything they can to get you graduating on time, but if you&#8217;ve mucked it up past the point of no return, that&#8217;s not their problem soz lol.<\/p>\n<p>so yeah, it&#8217;s not super helpful. the action path that it translates to though is talking to your college registrar&#8217;s office, some advice they tack on to the bottom of that little summary i linked. at the end of the day, it&#8217;s your registrar who&#8217;s going to do everything they can to graduate you when you want to graduate. so get yourself on over there!<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey aska, I&#8217;m a fourth year student aiming to graduate in June. My GPA is fine, but?I&#8217;ve made stupid choices during course selection and now because of course?conflicts, I&#8217;m 1.0 credit behind! How does the dean&#8217;s promise work??Graduation requests close on the 26th. :&lt; ????????? hey there, the dean&#8217;s promise isn&#8217;t actually a concrete thing, unfortunately. i know it sounds like it should be. i mean, it&#8217;s a PROMISE, right? it MATTERS. yeah, not really. all the dean&#8217;s promise really says is that they&#8217;ll do everything they can to get you graduating on time, but if you&#8217;ve mucked it up past the point of no return, that&#8217;s not their problem soz lol. so yeah, it&#8217;s not super helpful. the action path that it translates to though is talking to your college registrar&#8217;s office, some advice they tack on to the bottom of that little summary i linked. at the end of the day, it&#8217;s your registrar who&#8217;s going to do everything they can to graduate you when you want to graduate. so get yourself on over there! 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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","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=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}