Hopefully everyone is having an excellent weekend.
I wanted to address two points in the blog today.
- The first one has to do with entering the description of courses. Where possible please be as detailed as possible about what the course content actually was. For example, if on the manuscript the class is listed as a math course with a course number but is actually a calculus course or statistics course list it as calculus not simply math. In addition, you can imagine that it is impossible to list every course. if you don’t find it in the menu, I would recommend entering the section or faculty it belongs to rather that OTHER. Entering other keeps us guessing…is it a required course as part of the degree or an elective. The more specific you are the easier it is for the reviewers to assign you a score in the area of “subjective assessment of academic merit.”
- There is a new section this year . there is a free text section in which we are interested in hearing from you why you enrolled in the undergraduate degree you did and in addition why you chose the electives you chose outside of your degree area. Ideally, for each elective on your transcript you will provide us the rationale you chose it and how it fits in with your degree or other interests.
Presently the area above the section is written in this manner:
“Please describe why you selected the option courses in your degree program.” The programmer will be adding a sentence to reflect the above.
“Please describe why you selected the undergraduate degree you did and please describe why you selected the option courses in your degree program.“
