Transition from high school
The name of the teacher at University.
What is professor? What is course instructor? What is (sometimes) teaching assistant?
Academic accommodations.
What is a support for coursework for disability-related needs? This may look different from high school.
St George.
What is the campus of UofT where we are currently located? There are separate campuses in Mississauga and Scarborough.
College and spadina.
What is the central location of Accessibility Services? There are also a number of on-location advisors around campus.
10 minutes
What is the time to get from one class to another?
Critical thinking vs novel, original work
What is the difference between first year and upper year courses, such as thesis or capstone projects? In most first year courses, while you need to acknowledge other's contributions, you are mostly developing critical thinking and foundational skills.
A place to make friends.
What is residence? or What is a club? or What is class? or What is Moving Forward?
Test and exam services.
What the service you have to register with in order to write your exams with accommodations?
Ways that classes are different than high school.
What is heavier course load? or What is larger classes? or What is more independence? or What is less required interaction with the professor?
Options other than full-time study.
What is part-time? or What is reduced course load? Your accessibility advisor can advocate for part-time and reduced course load if needed for disability-related needs.
Note-takers.
What is people who typically just want to help other students by taking notes for them?
The person responsible for communicating with profs to let them know about your accommodations.
What is you/the student?
15.
What is the typical mark reduction from high school to university?
Requirement for grad school.
What is high marks? OR What is research experience? OR What is interest in the program? OR What is extra-curricular experience? - Each grad program is different in its requirements.
Services that provide support to students.
What is registrars, academic success, student life, math aid centres, writing centres, centre for international experience, first nations house, sexual and gender diversity office, etc?
Information you need to disclose to your profs.
What is your accommodations? You do NOT need to disclose the reason you need them.
66-68%
What is the final course average for classes bigger than 50 people IF UofT has adjusted the grade?
Any behaviour, intentional or otherwise, that gives a student unearned or unfair advantage in academic work over other students.
What is academic misconduct?
2 hours.
What is the number of hours outside of each hour of lecture you should work on the course? University is like a full-time job. If you have 15-20 hours of lecture a week, you should allot 30-40 hours to complete your course-work.
3.0
What is the average GPA of both registered and non-registered students at the end of the degree? While at the end of first year, the average grade of students who are registered is slightly lower (2.85 vs 2.78), by the end of the degree they are approximately the same (3.02 vs 2.99).