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just to add in,
i talked to the milinium ppl on the phone, and thyre not that seriosu abt the scholorship clause where you cant switch programs / schools, you just need to fill in a request form and they shouldnt care at all , as long as you can explain that you're not like 'dropping out' to an easier program or whatever, thats their main concern, that you're not working as hard anymore.
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Rank: Student Body President
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Just to add this to your considerations - Western really isn't all that far. It's not like you had your heart set on going to school in Nova Scotia or something. You can go home a lot. Should you really need to get home fast, you can do so, by taxi if nothing else.
Remember that it often takes just as long to do a search or two on Google to try and find the answer to your question as it takes to type it in a post here, let alone the time waiting for a reply. If your question is "What mark does it take to get into University X", or "What are the requirements to get into University X", it's on their website and/or electronicinfo.ca (for Ontario schools). Particularly for Ontario schools, those ranges are a pretty good picture of what kind of mark will get you into the program, and if you're more than a couple percent higher it's practically guaranteed unless it requires a supplementary form.
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Rank: Valedictorian
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I would say stay the extra year, give yourself time to take everything in, analyze and strategize, and figure out your life, since it seems a bit more complicated than usual right now. If you're going back for a fifth year though, I would recommend going for just one semester as opposed to a full year because that would just be a waste since you don't really need credits and all that. You can take the extra semester off to find a job and save up money, just in case things don't go exactly as planned you still have a bit of money. Since being out of school in February, I have made over $3000 for school working full time at a minimum wage job, so either way, you would have enough money by summer to at least cover tuition if your scholarship does not come through, and you can figure out a living situation at that time.
UWO '12 Social Science
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thanks for the replies. I've considered the one semester strategy but there are two problems with that---1st, I go to a non semestered school and thus I'd have to change schools (nearby ones don't offer AP either) so that would be a bit of a problem but secondly, wouldn't I lose my fulltime student status if I take less than 5 courses a year? If I lose that status, wouldn't that make me ineligible for a lot of scholarships, entrance awards, and loans? bigbadsheep, you've been in that situation (actually you are in it currently), have you lost any sort of eligibility by being out of school for a semester?
What I have decided on for now is to accept my offer, pay the residence deposit (somehow), and then spend some time speaking with an academic counsellor at Western to see if I would lose anything by staying that extra year. As it is I know that I would lose my SE spot and have to reapply next year, but at least there is a possibility that I could get in next year, right? I think it might be possible not to defer until august (i'll have to double check that), when I'll hear back from millennium hopefully, so if they say I'd lose the scholarship I'd just go and if they say I can defer it then I'd make my final decision in that regard. Sigh.
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Rank: Valedictorian
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About the one semester thing, I took 3 subjects in my last semester. When I began applying to universities, and for bursaries/scholarships etc., I was confused about my student status. I went back and talked to my guidance counselor at school (who compared to other counselors I've read about on here is a genius) he said that I was a full time student for the semester I was there, but the semester off I was considered a part time student. He did say though however, that the only time you lose eligibility for scholarships, and have to declare that you are not a current student is after you've been out of the schooling system for a year. So the 4 months or so you're out of school shouldn't affect your eligibility as a student.
It won't hurt to ask your guidance counselor as well, if you feel they are competent enough, or perhaps you can talk to the Millennium people again and find out.
UWO '12 Social Science
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Rank: Student Body President
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thanks, I will speak to my counsellor. He's been pretty helpful (and knowledgeable compared to some of the counsellors other people on this site have had) but he's also really busy all the time so i have to make an appointment REALLY ahead of schedule (he does a lot of sports and SA and other organizing stuff in addition to counselling so that's why he's always busy)
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