{"id":6446,"date":"2014-01-27T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2019-08-17T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T18:54:29","slug":"everybody-everybody-wants-to-be-downtown-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=6446","title":{"rendered":"everybody, everybody wants to be downtown (yeah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am a first-year student currently attending UTM. It was my plan all along to live at home and attend UTM for my first-year, and then switch over to UTSG (where my program of interest is) for the remainder of my undergraduate degree. I&#8217;m just about ready to submit my transfer app.<\/p>\n<p>The site says that for transfer students in their first year (They also said this when I contacted them) They look at your first year marks, as well as your grade 12 makrs from highschool. They do not look at transfer credits as first-year students aren&#8217;t eligible to use them.<\/p>\n<p>To the best of your knowledge, is it very easy to transfer, since it is just between campuses?<\/p>\n<p>Please get back to me!<\/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>&#8220;please get back to me,&#8221; as if i ever DON&#8217;T get back to people. c&#8217;mon guys, doncha know by now that you can TRUST me? i&#8217;m like the <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/friendsfloatingheads2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">friendly neighbour<\/a> down the hall who always talks with you in the laundry room even when you&#8217;re pretending really hard to read a book: dependable. chatty. always there. <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/mcrlaundry.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regular in my laundry habits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>now, about your question. one, what &#8216;transfer credit&#8217; are you referring to? do you mean ib\/ap credits from high school? or transfer credits from first year? because i transferred to the downtown campus after first year and i got transfer credit for both those things. you <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/channingtatumconfused.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gotta be specific in your questions, peeps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>anyway, is it easy? i mean, yeah, bureaucratically speaking. you just use the internal application that i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already got in order, follow the instructions and voila! i don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s any more or less easy than transferring from another canadian university.<\/p>\n<p>obviously, if you didn&#8217;t do very well in your first year, you&#8217;re going to run into some problems (i&#8217;d say that a first-year average of 5% lower than the cut-off your program uses to admit students from grade 12 will give you a good shot at getting in), and it&#8217;s harder to get into some programs than others (i&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you, commerce) but i think that goes without saying. you should hear back from them in late march\/early april. it&#8217;s all pretty straightforward after that: you just, y&#8217;know, get on the train to a different school.<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I am a first-year student currently attending UTM. It was my plan all along to live at home and attend UTM for my first-year, and then switch over to UTSG (where my program of interest is) for the remainder of my undergraduate degree. I&#8217;m just about ready to submit my transfer app. The site says that for transfer students in their first year (They also said this when I contacted them) They look at your first year marks, as well as your grade 12 makrs from highschool. They do not look at transfer credits as first-year students aren&#8217;t eligible to use them. To the best of your knowledge, is it very easy to transfer, since it is just between campuses? Please get back to me! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, &#8220;please get back to me,&#8221; as if i ever DON&#8217;T get back to people. c&#8217;mon guys, doncha know by now that you can TRUST me? i&#8217;m like the friendly neighbour down the hall who always talks with you in the laundry room even when you&#8217;re pretending really hard to read a book: dependable. chatty. always there. regular in my laundry habits. now, about your question. one, what &#8216;transfer credit&#8217; are you referring to? do you mean ib\/ap credits from high school? or transfer credits from first year? because i transferred to the downtown campus after first year and i got transfer credit for both those things. you gotta be specific in your questions, peeps. anyway, is it easy? i mean, yeah, bureaucratically speaking. you just use the internal application that i&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already got in order, follow the instructions and voila! i don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s any more or less easy than transferring from another canadian university. obviously, if you didn&#8217;t do very well in your first year, you&#8217;re going to run into some problems (i&#8217;d say that a first-year average of 5% lower than the cut-off your program uses to admit students from grade 12 will give you a good shot at getting in), and it&#8217;s harder to get into some programs than others (i&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you, commerce) but i think that goes without saying. you should hear back from them in late march\/early april. it&#8217;s all pretty straightforward after that: you just, y&#8217;know, get on the train to a different school. cheers, 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":[31,167,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-george","category-transferring","category-utm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","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=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}