Honours Commerce Grade Requirement Change
03-02-2013 at 12:34 AM
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I'm a 2nd year commerce student and I hold roughly a 9 average(?). Honestly, my friends in honours from upper years just tell me to stick to the straight program and do well rather than cumber myself with stresses and silly additional loads of honours as they are finding it difficult to retain their same GPA.
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03-02-2013 at 04:48 AM
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[moderated] I have an 11 average, I am not complaining. If your average is less than 10, you are no different than the people with 5.0's.
The only people that get highly "sought" after jobs, not even worth mentioning what those are, have competitive GPAs. You can come in here and say, "Grades do not matter, it's the total resume." Good luck getting interviews without a competitive (10.75+) GPA.
Does not bother me much, already wrote my LSAT last summer (173), 100% will get into a T15 law school.
Keep deferring...
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03-02-2013 at 01:15 PM
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But what are you going to do with your degree?
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03-02-2013 at 02:24 PM
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Funny Phaint makes this thread as he is notorious for deferring tests. I have an 11 average, I am not complaining. If your average is less than 10, you are no different than the people with 5.0's.
The only people that get highly "sought" after jobs, not even worth mentioning what those are, have competitive GPAs. You can come in here and say, "Grades do not matter, it's the total resume." Good luck getting interviews without a competitive (10.75+) GPA.
Does not bother me much, already wrote my LSAT last summer (173), 100% will get into a T15 law school. I AM SET.
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[email protected] 10.75 average. Hardly any people in commerce have that. Around 40ish out of the entire program? Probably less, that's a very ambitious estimate. You can check to see who got Harry Hooker/Senate.
Also, there's many people with 9-10 averages that get interviews with the big banks and the big four. Any lower than 9 though is a problem..
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03-02-2013 at 02:53 PM
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[email protected] 10.75 average. Hardly any people in commerce have that. Around 40ish out of the entire program? Probably less, that's a very ambitious estimate. You can check to see who got Harry Hooker/Senate.
Also, there's many people with 9-10 averages that get interviews with the big banks and the big four. Any lower than 9 though is a problem..
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as a ~9 student.. I find this reassuring
good to know. thanks. do you have the links to those lists? |
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03-02-2013 at 03:39 PM
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03-02-2013 at 03:59 PM
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You have to consider only people with full course loads are there. What about people who did summer school, alleviated their load, got better grades? This is what a lot of my friends, myself as well do/did.
Found my name, SICKKK
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03-02-2013 at 04:10 PM
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You have to consider only people with full course loads are there. What about people who did summer school, alleviated their load, got better grades? This is what a lot of my friends, myself as well do/did.
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Nope, you can still get awards like that if you take summer school. Your average is calculated using all courses taken since the last review. |
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03-02-2013 at 04:12 PM
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You have to consider only people with full course loads are there. What about people who did summer school, alleviated their load, got better grades? This is what a lot of my friends, myself as well do/did.
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lol this guy brags about being set in life and cant even take a full course load |
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03-02-2013 at 04:13 PM
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03-02-2013 at 09:14 PM
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And how do you define being set in life...going to law school (it's a great accomplishment) is going to have its own set of problems. I don't think one can ever be set in life...
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03-02-2013 at 11:42 PM
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You have to consider only people with full course loads are there. What about people who did summer school, alleviated their load, got better grades? This is what a lot of my friends, myself as well do/did.
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Well, employers still see your transcript. Plus, I find summer school harder to get good grades anyway due to a lack of motivation in the summer. |
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03-03-2013 at 12:59 PM
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I don't care about names Honours or not, but I got one thing that I care about the most, take finance courses. As I was trying to plan for 3rd and 4th year, I learn that Honours only allow students to take 7 commerce electives. But I want to take lots of them to learn more about finance. And I hate taking electives I don't like.
Pros: Lowering the standard would allow more students to take more commerce courses, which is a good thing. But I think more importantly, is allowing commerce students to take more commerce courses.
Cons: Lowering the standard, like all of you said, the value of Honours decrease. Also hard to distinguish who actually make the effort to study to get those good grades when you look at someone who has Honours.
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