On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 00:16 +0100, solarwind wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > > Just be glad you didn't go Eng Sci. > > Of course I'm glad I didn't take Engineering Science. I don't want to > be an engineer. Duh! Sorry about that, for some reason I had assumed you were going into engineering. > If you're somehow implying that the program may be more "difficult", > you may be right in some respect. However, you're then misjudging the > difficulty and competition life science students face. In most > engineering courses, as long as you pass, you're good. In a life Most certainly not true of regular engineering at UofT (eng sci being even more competitive, the last stat I heard was 50% fail to proceed). Failing was common, reason being they made the courses harder then average and then "bell curved" everybody to make the final average high C low B. This meant that most people got really low marks that magically got higher. This also meant that you had to ensure your marks, whatever they were, were not at the bottom. I don't remember exact numbers, but I know that a good number of people in my first year were not in the same program in the last year. > science program, a mere pass will not suffice. Remember that med > school is the next step - and to get into a respectable med school, > you need a very high university GPA. And in U of T, that will be > difficult. Not because the nature of the study is hard - but because a > lot of TIME is required to memorize biological facts, terms, and > concepts. That depends on the student, what is hard for one student is easy for another. I graduated with some students that had amazing memories, but had trouble with more intuitive type content. You cannot generalize a program like that. TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist