When Your GPA Is Low... — Page 3

Ooh interesting! What field research are you going to do, if any? Are you planning on TA-ing?

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Is it hard to get students near the same age as you to listen to you or take you seriously as a TA? How were you able to start TAing? Nice gig! At SFU, you need to be a Master's student to qualify.

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for some reason, the site has sent me back in time....odd...apparently my last post was at 515.

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haven't applied for rhodes...thought about it, but decided not to.
i teach all the precollege classes, but i'm going to start the GRE (which is the grad school one) and the LSAT as soon as I have time to train...I tested into the LSAT program, and did well enough on the GRE to score qualify.

can I just point out that this was originally a thread about LOW gpas?

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no problem, i'll be more than happy to help with the logic.

i'm out for the night...tomorrow is a lovely 20 hour day....aagh

night night tiff!

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BlueWizard, Queens and U of T are so alike. I've always been told that Queens, U of T, Western and McGill are the "Canadian Ivy Leauge"- but damn! Don't make us work TWICE as hard!
*shakes fist at yuppy country club university and its army of snobs*

Really? McGill? I think it's highly recognized but I don't know if its criteria and price is as high as Queens and UofT. Lowered Quebecois standards. *hehe* (Looks around nervously.)

Have you been to their campus before, Judy? I've heard good things about McGill and the area around it - cheap for living, apparently. I'd love to go to Montreal some time!

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This is how I KNOW I'm a nerd - I shouldn't have any worries until Jan, but I can't relax! I feel like I should be studying, or leaving something to the last minute, and I have this tension in my head! A perma-frown!

I'm actually going to pick up my distance ed materials and start working on them today.


*giggle*





*snicker*





*pfft*






*hee*



Okay, I'm going to get my course materials, THINK of starting to work on them, and then procrastinate until January. Who am I fooling.

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I woke up at 2:00pm today. See what U of T is doing to me? After a month of all-nighters, 15-page essays, making deadlines and cramming for three-hour exams where you need to go to the washroom after the first hour, I needed the rest.

BlueWizard, I feel forgetting you're at UT! I keep thinking you're at York or Queen's w/ Judy. Yeah, folks, BlueWiz ain't kidding. UT is notoriously tough (and expensive!).

Yeah, UT is rediculously tough, especially for science/engineering students (I'm in a English/Computer Science double-major, so I get some of that stress). I know some people who virtually live at the library: they spend most of their four undergraduate years studying in the stacks and don't go out to see the sun.

The novelty of sometimes having a "celebrity prof" wears off pretty quickly. However, once in awhile you can't help but appreciate the breadth of courses available. UT is expensive, but not that much higher than the other universities in Ontario. I'm so jealous that the BC tuition rates are so low!

UT undergraduates get screwed over because the university's main focus is its graduate school - that's where UT's strength lies. Most people entering UT were graduated at the top of their high school class with an A to A+ average, but because of the insistence of a bell curve, people leave UT with a C+ average. This makes it very hard to compete to get into graduate school -- including UT's. The irony is that many people could have gotten a much higher GPA studying elsewhere, and could have taken that mark and gotten into UT's grad school. This is the frustration of many undergrads here: we get a top-quality education, but what do we do with it?

UT recently (and infamously) increased the law school tuition to $20000 (!!!), to compete with the Ivy Leagues. (For Americans reading, an average Canadian undergrad tuition is usually $4000-5000/year, due to government subsidies). The increase is forcing a lot of other law schools to follow suit.

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Updated On: 12/18/04 at 03:19 PM

Yeah, tuitions suck. But at least it's a lot cheaper here than in the States, we receive the same quality of education. Yay for publicly-funded academic institutions!

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Updated On: 12/18/04 at 04:28 PM

Ok so I know I'm late but since people were sharing earlier in the thread...I got a 4.429 for the semester. ::is proud::

Apparently having no life sometimes pays off...

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It's out of 4.

But if you take honors and AP courses, they're weighted higher so you can go above. The whole thing is really a joke.

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My school was weird. It wouldn't offer APs outside of science and math, and wouldn't weigh those higher. Which was good, because the main difference between our core and AP science courses was the depth/breadth thing, not difficulty. Also, some departments (math, most notably) refused to give A+ on principle. What principle that was I don't know, but it sure pissed off some of our overachievers among overachievers.:)