{"id":7805,"date":"2014-05-12T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=7805"},"modified":"2019-08-12T22:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T02:42:33","slug":"those-are-some-crazy-summer-plans-youve-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=7805","title":{"rendered":"those are some crazy summer plans you&#8217;ve got."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska \ud83d\ude42<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>Right, so &#8211; transfer credits. I&#8217;ve been toying with the idea of taking an online course at Athabasca instead of taking MAT135 over at UTM (I&#8217;ve already checked, and it&#8217;s transferable)&#8230; but I&#8217;m also taking summer courses. I already know I can handle summer school and enjoy it, but my question is can I take a course at Athabasca WHILE taking courses at UTM? I didn&#8217;t ask for a letter of permission, so I have no idea whether or not this can actually work, but I&#8217;m really hoping it will.<br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey hey,<\/p>\n<p>well, there&#8217;s nothing in the registration guide that specifically restricts you from taking them both. if you want to make sure that it&#8217;s possible, i&#8217;d recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/about-us\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contacting UTM<\/a> to ask them about it.<\/p>\n<p>if you didn&#8217;t ask for a letter of permission, what you&#8217;re doing is basically going in blind and hoping that the class will count as transfer credit. if you think it&#8217;s transferable, that&#8217;s great, but basically, without an LOP, there&#8217;s no <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/srsbsnss.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official<\/a> guarantee from the university that it will be (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/registrar\/sites\/files\/registrar\/public\/shared\/pdfs\/registrationguides\/2014SummerRegGuidePDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">page 4 of this handy-dandy guide<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>also, make sure that the total number of courses you&#8217;re taking don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.utoronto.ca\/registrar\/sites\/files\/registrar\/public\/shared\/pdfs\/registrationguides\/2014SummerRegGuidePDF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">go over the maximum course load <\/a>(page 7 of the handy-dandy guide).<\/p>\n<p>and that should be all! good luck. i really hope it transfers\/is allowed. i&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sherlockmindpalace.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending you my lucky aska vibes<\/a> to try and help out, but those aren&#8217;t COMPLETELY foolproof, so in the future, just get a letter of permission and chat with your school about it before signing up for a course out in the wilds of Western Canada*. lets you rest easy about it.<\/p>\n<p>best of luck,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>*i mean i know the course is online, but still. that&#8217;s a long way for the little internet wizards to carry information, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi aska \ud83d\ude42Right, so &#8211; transfer credits. I&#8217;ve been toying with the idea of taking an online course at Athabasca instead of taking MAT135 over at UTM (I&#8217;ve already checked, and it&#8217;s transferable)&#8230; but I&#8217;m also taking summer courses. I already know I can handle summer school and enjoy it, but my question is can I take a course at Athabasca WHILE taking courses at UTM? I didn&#8217;t ask for a letter of permission, so I have no idea whether or not this can actually work, but I&#8217;m really hoping it will.Thank you! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey hey, well, there&#8217;s nothing in the registration guide that specifically restricts you from taking them both. if you want to make sure that it&#8217;s possible, i&#8217;d recommend contacting UTM to ask them about it. if you didn&#8217;t ask for a letter of permission, what you&#8217;re doing is basically going in blind and hoping that the class will count as transfer credit. if you think it&#8217;s transferable, that&#8217;s great, but basically, without an LOP, there&#8217;s no official guarantee from the university that it will be (see page 4 of this handy-dandy guide). also, make sure that the total number of courses you&#8217;re taking don&#8217;t go over the maximum course load (page 7 of the handy-dandy guide). and that should be all! good luck. i really hope it transfers\/is allowed. i&#8217;m sending you my lucky aska vibes to try and help out, but those aren&#8217;t COMPLETELY foolproof, so in the future, just get a letter of permission and chat with your school about it before signing up for a course out in the wilds of Western Canada*. lets you rest easy about it. best of luck, aska *i mean i know the course is online, but still. that&#8217;s a long way for the little internet wizards to carry information, you know?<\/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":[108,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer","category-utm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805","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=7805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}