hi, i was wondering if it were to be possible to attend uoft full-time as well as another school- for example, ryerson. if this isn't possible, would it be acceptable to attend one full-time and the other part-time? what would happen if an exam scheduling conflict arose? thanks, askastudent!
- matt damon

 

ha, what I love about this question is that you've asked it twice before and I hadn't yet answered it because I needed to ask someone else and hadn't tracked that person down. so you resorted to name dropping. well ok MATT DAMON, here we go. (part of me wants to NOT answer it because Matt Damon still owes me 2 hours for The Talented Mr.Ripley)

first let me just say that this answer is pretty theoretical because WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THIS??? calm down crazy, one degree at a time.

I figured that the answer to this was yes because I know someone who is a student at both U of T and Ryerson. and it turns out that the answer is YES. you can be enrolled in 2 different schools as long as you are only full-time at ONE. so you can be part time at 2 schools, or full-time at 1, and part-time at the other.

however, I see numerous potential problems.

1. insanity - no matter how you arrange it, it's just too many classes

2. conflicts - if you have a U of T exam scheduled at the same time as a Ryerson exam - you're pretty much screwed, neither school is going to be sympathetic or help you out. also, are you sure you can schedule your classes around each other?

3. OUAC - if you're applying for these programs at the same time, as soon as you accept your full time program, I'm pretty sure it will cancel out the other one. I'd call OUAC to see how to get around this, OR call the school in which you want to be part-time and explain your situation. there must be a way to flag your application and allow you to be in both.

4. transfer credits - is your plan to be working on one degree, and transfer credits from one school to the other? there are many limitations on this, make sure you look into it. if this isn't what you're doing, which degree are you getting, and how bloody long is it going to take doing it this way?!

5. logic - why do you want to do this? does one school have the program you want? why not just go there? without these answers I can't say much more, but everyone I asked pretty much advice strongly against this plan and advised you to get academic counseling from a counsellor at one of the schools before you make your final decisions. one person I asked mentioned that even Doogie Howser likely couldn't do this successfully - I'm just barely old enough for this reference, are you?

cheers, askastudent

P.S I'd link you to info on the utoronto site about this, but I just couldn't find any.