{"id":765,"date":"2008-06-25T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=765"},"modified":"2008-06-26T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:41:06","slug":"christmas-tree-look-at-your-branches-look-at-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree, look at your branches!  Look at them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-CA\"><strong>Hi! I have a question about seminar courses. I understand that seminar courses are the way to go if I&#8217;m looking for a pretty relaxed way to get a good mark and boost my gpa&#8230; but what about grad schools? Generally speaking, do you think they would look down on me taking a seminar course in my fourth year?&#8230;. Would they even look at it?<\/strong><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-CA\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-CA\">No, I don?t think that Grad Schools would ?look down? on the seminar credit at all.<span>  <\/span>It?s the grade that?s going to matter, not that it was a bird course.<span>  <\/span>As long as you have all of your pre-req?s for the Grad Program you intend to take while maintaining decent grades you should be A-OK.<span>  <\/span>Bird courses exist for a reason, and you may as well indulge in them while you can.<span>  <\/span>Or else you?ll be in forth year taking some random astronomy course that looked easy because of its title (e.g. <u>The Sun and its Neighbours<\/u>) in order to fill a course requirement &#8211; realizing that it?s as awful as the idea of being on the sun as you wish in your final year that you took the seminar course <u>Genes, Genomes, and Us<\/u> and studied the idea of fatness being a genetic brain defect for a whole semester in first year.<span>  <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I have a question about seminar courses. I understand that seminar courses are the way to go if I&#8217;m looking for a pretty relaxed way to get a good mark and boost my gpa&#8230; but what about grad schools? Generally speaking, do you think they would look down on me taking a seminar course in my fourth year?&#8230;. Would they even look at it?<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-easy-marks","category-med-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}