My concerns about university

[endless]

back, there is also a section that your advanced functions teacher fills out and sends to waterloo, aswell as a spot where you state competitions you have participated in and the score on the contest.

i got my confirmation last thursday (day after) so maybe they only do it once a week.

[Horus]

Ok, our school just got the PIN today. I can't get it today though cause I didn't bring my student ID, gonna get it tmr.

Anyways is there space in the AIF to write an essay?

and what? how am I suppose to submit my marks?

I haven't got the first term report card yet, but our teacher already gave us the unofficial mark we're gonna receive (though they might change it later)

[endless]

i guess what it comes down to is they let you decide the courses marks to use for the non prerequisites.

i'm not sure you should put an essay in the general part, but like i said, it may be best to print the AIF and send it in with an essay.

[Horus]

just another question, you don't have to fill in gr 9,10,11 marks right?

cause if I do i'm dead, I have an average of like low 70s overall in those 3 grades. (I was just being lazy)

[Tony]

You don't fill out your marks -- your school sends them for you.

Grade 11 marks are typically included, because you don't have enough of 12th grade completed at the time of the application.

[Horus]

really?

but i'm in a term school, the only first term mark they won't see for gr 12 is calculus (because it's semester, i have to take advanced function first)

oh crap my 70% avg...

my gr 11 mark is like (around)
75 in math
75 in comp sci
66 in english
80 in physics
75 in accounting
75 in TDJ
68 in law

[endless]

through ouac it has many if not all gr. 11 courses, though i doubt it has much leverage on your acceptance.

i don't know, you'll soon see what i mean by the filling out your own courses/ marks from gr. 12.

[SJ]

endless @ Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:51 am wrote:

...there is also a section that your advanced functions teacher fills out and sends to waterloo...

does it HAVE to be my advanced functions teacher? can it be my comp sci teacher instead?

[endless]

pretty sure it has to be a math teacher. and generally most people are in adv. functions now, so that is the suggestion.

[Horus]

well i can kinda explain for my failures in gr 11:
I didn't hand in one of the major assignment for comp sci (it's not really my fault, my parents were bitching about me being on the computer all the time) my first term compsci mark in gr 11 was 94.

for math, I came in half an hour late during the final exam, and so I failed the exam....

well the other course doesn't really matter cause i doubt that university cares.

my adv function teacher loves me, but she sucks at english though, I wonder what they will say when they see my math teacher's writing...

I have some questions:
I have already made up my mind of these 3 universities being my top 3:

waterloo, toronto, carleton.

waterloo is my first choice. So if I get accepted for waterloo, i'll go there for sure.

but the thing is I don't know what I would choose if I get accepted for both toronto and carleton and not waterloo, which one should I go to? Toronto for reputation or carleton for 100% coop? and what's the coop rate for toronto?

[[Gandalf]]

Tony @ 2008-11-24, 4:39 pm wrote:

You don't fill out your marks -- your school sends them for you.

For the AIF, you do write your marks in, but for general admission purposes, they use the marks sent by your school later on. Also, IIRC, you don't have space to write an essay, but who knows. For sure, though, having some essay writing award or something along those lines could remedy a bad English mark.

Horus wrote:

Toronto for reputation or carleton for 100% coop? and what's the coop rate for toronto?

U of T doesn't have co-op. Instead, they have a 'Professional Experience Year' that amounts to something similar, though you work continuously for something like 12 or more months rather than in terms.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Tony @ Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:39 pm wrote:

You don't fill out your marks -- your school sends them for you.

Grade 11 marks are typically included, because you don't have enough of 12th grade completed at the time of the application.

So I fill out the rest of it, and leave the marks section? Why do they even have a marks section if your school sends them out anyway?

[Horus]

Gandalf wrote:

Horus wrote:

Toronto for reputation or carleton for 100% coop? and what's the coop rate for toronto?

U of T doesn't have co-op. Instead, they have a 'Professional Experience Year' that amounts to something similar, though you work continuously for something like 12 or more months rather than in terms.

there is coop in UFT:

i checked on einfo,
Co-op Computer Science
University of Toronto Scarborough
OUAC Program Code

TSC
Degree

* Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Location (city, region)

Toronto
Grade Range

High 70s to low 80s
Is co-op available?

Co-op program

[[Gandalf]]

Ah you're right, but that only applies to the Scarborough campus. My bad.

PS. Well done on the successful quote, you have succeeded where many have failed.

[Horus]

Gandalf @ Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:25 pm wrote:

Ah you're right, but that only applies to the Scarborough campus. My bad.

PS. Well done on the successful quote, you have succeeded where many have failed.

lol @ success quote... I actually had to edit it...

and oh, I just find out something:

carleton have only 58% of the graduates employeed. I'm going to take out carleton as my 3rd choice and add in macmaster (91% of the graduates employeed)