{"id":768,"date":"2008-06-26T13:23:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=768"},"modified":"2014-02-04T14:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:12:04","slug":"dont-forget-the-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget the &#8220;U&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong>Hey, my name is mo, and I am a canadian thats been living in the states for a while and your sit has helped? me out alot in my search for info about u of t. I am currently going into grade 12, and was wondering if you think my marks are competetive for admission. I have looked at the averages for different colleges and programs and saw that the averages are usually around the upper 80&#8217;s. how ever at my school the average isnt recorded. if its a 90+ its a 4, an 80+ a 3 and so on. but Im mainly in honors or AP courses and in those classes its weighted so a 90 is a 4.5, 80 is 3.5 and so on. My gpa is a 3.5 weighted and a 3.25 unweighted. Do you think im competetive for the life sciences program? ( if it matters i have a 33 on the ACT, which is around a 2200 on the sat). Thanks!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">?<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Well, we don?t go by SATs here, so I have no idea what is good or bad except from the film Orange County featuring Tom Hanks? son ? so I?m just not going to look at that number.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The university will have ways to look at your grades in relation to what they?d be comparative to in Canada.<span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouac.on.ca\/105\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">OUAC105<\/span><\/a> <\/span>will take care of it for you.? <\/span>Your school marks are competitive, but don?t seem to be as good as your SAT mark ? and again, we don?t look at SAT or ACT scores (and I checked and your marks I can see are well above average) so your school marks are what will weigh you in your final high school year.<span>? <\/span>They seem competitive enough, but it all depends on what the university is looking for in next year?s applicant pool.<span>? <\/span>I would aim to maintain high 80?s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">And Mo, start learning to spell things like honours with a U if you?re planning on coming to Canada.<span>? <\/span>The Queen is on our currency so we respect her English ways ? if you know what I?m saying, neighbour.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, my name is mo, and I am a canadian thats been living in the states for a while and your sit has helped? me out alot in my search for info about u of t. I am currently going into grade 12, and was wondering if you think my marks are competetive for admission. I have looked at the averages for different colleges and programs and saw that the averages are usually around the upper 80&#8217;s. how ever at my school the average isnt recorded. if its a 90+ its a 4, an 80+ a 3 and so on. but Im mainly in honors or AP courses and in those classes its weighted so a 90 is a 4.5, 80 is 3.5 and so on. My gpa is a 3.5 weighted and a 3.25 unweighted. Do you think im competetive for the life sciences program? ( if it matters i have a 33 on the ACT, which is around a 2200 on the sat). 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