Im applying too and im freaking out D: exams start tomorrow and still making sure my supp app has no mistakes :P loolz im so nervous can't believe we have to wait till may

No one else is applying? I remember there being a huge thread last year...

I applied too!!!! I wonder if their pool of applicants is down this year....because i've seen significantly less interest this year. I'm almost sure I am the only one in my school who applied for it aha.

Cool!

Well, it still seems like an awesome program. And less applicants= higher chance of getting in, hopefully? haha.

my friends are in arts & sci. alot of their programs are specialized and it seems pretty hard - atleast compared to mine - but the arts and sci have their own office and everything and lounge and its a good program!!

I put in the wrong OUAC number.
I think that's a million times worse. :S
My OUAC number only had 5 digits, so I was told to replace the - with a 0, but then I realized I was just supposed to add a zero to the end.

And I had to retype my application about 3 times because I didn't realize we couldn't use certain characters. I didn't understand what the warning message was saying when I submitted... at first I thought the character set was wrong, so I retyped it. And then I retyped it again... didn't work. Then I finally tried taking out the symbols () and realized I couldn't use those in the phone number either. So after about 45 minutes, I finally got my application through. =( I was literally hyperventilating. I should I have done my app earlier, only I had so many exams!


Oh well. If I don't get in to artsci, then that makes my decision making process easier, assuming I get into my other top choice.

As mentioned above, I completely failed the application. Didn't even put in the right OUAC number, and I'm sure I have many typos/grammar mistakes and probably missed parts of my answer because I spent the last hour before it was due retyping it TWICE due to an error. It's probably more likely I'll get struck by lightning 5 times in the same day than it is for me to get in, lol. If I can get in, it'd be nice, but it'd also be a miracle.

It was fun though, good writing practice, and at least I tried. :) My reasoning is, if I don't get in, ArtSci probably wasn't the right fit for me anyway. Life has so many possibilities.

How did your application go? Since it's over now, what did you write about for your answers (if you care to share?) I'm just curious.

Hmm, I heard that the supplementary counts for a lot, like they can add or subtract 5 points depending on the supplementary to your average. It's impossible for me to get a 99 average or close now, so assuming I lose 5 points, I'm probably out of the running. It was worse than mediocre, because like I said, the website was having problems and I was literally hyperventilating, haha. And I'm just not a very good writer.


My answers made me seem a little eccentric, and were probably a little overly philosophical, but that's just how I am. :/ They did say "be yourself". But so that people on this forum don't get scared off by me, I'll just summarize what I wrote. :D

For the first question, my answer was pretty generic. I talked about how I had a lot of different interests and didn't want to narrow them down; how I felt like all the disciplines were connected, gave examples, talked about limitations in knowledge and how they could be overcome by applying different disciplines. Etc, etc.

Second question was my favourite. I talked about piano and music. <3

For my favourite subject, I wrote about biology. Had a lot to say about this one, and I liked it. I honestly learned so much from biology this year, so yeah.

The fourth question, I don't even remember which book I wrote about. I had two answers ready, and can't remember which one I decided on in the end when I clicked submit. o.o

For the challenge I overcame, I talked about my fear of public speaking. Maybe it's a common challenge, but it was a big one for me.

And the last question was the one I found most difficult, but I ended up writing about tutoring and how I it opened my eyes to different ways of learning.


I'm just curious what everyone else put, so please share! :)
Where else did you apply, ohtheirony94?

Hey I love knitting too!

And wow your book does sound really impressive. I really wanted to write about a French book but then I thought it might have been too confusing... so I didn't :/

If you have a good supp app, I'm pretty sure that's just as important as the marks, as long as you meet the 88 cutoff mark.

I see you got accepted into Knowledge Integration. Congrats!

Maybe I'll read that book sometime. In English though, I doubt my French is good enough!

Yeah, I talked to people in KI and everyone was so friendly! It sounds like an awesome program and I was so close to applying but in the back of my head I just felt like it wasn't the right fit for me. Reminded me a little of IB (not in a bad way, just the whole philosophy :P)

My other pick is Queens Con. Ed (Arts/ Science). I'm freaking out about the supplementary for that too! I probably have more changes with this program than Mac Artsci though, because I honestly messed up this one.

And that after that I just applied to Life Sci at UofT and McMaster, as a backup... Looking back though, I think it may be better for me to do a gap year, if I don't get in to my top choices, since I'm 99.9% sure my marks will go up after July (if I keep studying hard).