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Old 07-14-2009 at 09:50 AM   #16
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You're incorrect.

According to the MSU its 21 or more units.
That's incorrect. For the MSU a full time student is considered 18 units. You need to be a member of the MSU to run for office, and in order to run for office, you need 18 units.

As previously stated by others, to be considered a full-time student by the University, you are required to take 24 units. I dealt with this already this summer because I'm only taking 21 units, since I don't need any more courses than that to finish my degree.
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Old 07-14-2009 at 09:56 AM   #17
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I thought MSU was 18 actually. Why do they differ from the university? I assume that the university's number is more, erm, important than the MSU as a whole.
There's a few reasons why the MSU would have a lower unit requirement than the University for membership purposes.

The MSU represents full-time students only. Part-time students are represented my MAPS (McMaster Association of Part-Time Students). The 18 unit definition comes from an agreement between these two bodies.

Having a lower unit requirement for MSU membership does a few things: it allows more students to run for office or otherwise participate in the MSU; it provides more income for the MSU via membership fees; it provides its services to more students; and those are just the few that I could think of off the top of my head.

The 24 unit definition by the University is actually relatively unimportant except for the situation where you might be applying to a grad school that requires your last undergraduate year to be full-time.
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Old 07-14-2009 at 11:05 AM   #18
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That's incorrect. For the MSU a full time student is considered 18 units. You need to be a member of the MSU to run for office, and in order to run for office, you need 18 units.

As previously stated by others, to be considered a full-time student by the University, you are required to take 24 units. I dealt with this already this summer because I'm only taking 21 units, since I don't need any more courses than that to finish my degree.
Interesting. We were misinformed last year then when we checked for full-time student status. Incidentally by a member of last year's SRA.

Anyone wanting info on the MSU and MAPs definitions: http://www.msumcmaster.ca/faqs/overv...w/MSU+MAPS.htm
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