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lenora_rose(ED: Some serious rewriting done less than an hour after posting as I missed one major factor in one area.)
I missed one key qualifying bit for the University of Winnipeg Faculty of Education, which is the fact that for Senior level (Ie, teachers for Grades 9-12) Education courses, I *can't* use my Fine Arts Degree, which effectively lifts the number of course I'd have to take to qualify into the impossible-to-do (in just one year...). And the Middle years require a wider diversity of courses than the Senior year, so I'm toasted for having No University level Science/Math. So one way or another, I'd have to take a *larger* number of courses to qualify than I would for the Faculty of Education at the U of M.
I can, however, take one, possibly part time, selection of classes to qualify for everything except U of W Senior Education.
For the U of M, I need exactly one thing, regardless of age group - 6 credit hours worth of English courses (Though having some extras in addition to that would always help.) That would not be a hardship. If I hadn't missed the application deadline for September as it is, I could do it over the Summer Session.
For the U of W, I would need either:
- For Middle Grades - 6 Credit hours of History (Or Geography. But I'd do History.) and 9 of a combination of Math/Science
Or
- For Senior Grades - 18 Credit Hours of English, and 18 of History or French (Or any other suitable Minor, but it has to be tight focused into one Minor, I can't scatter it as I'd like and take some of several things.) OWIE.
I could actually do the English for the U of M and the U of W Middle years qualifications all in one. 21 Credit Hours in one year is a very bearable load (If I'm not working, and that's where an "eep!" comes in). And I could take *that* cluster at either University. Although I am tempted to apply at the U of M just so I can take Ceramics 2 (at last!) to please myself. My Fine Arts Degree ended up with No Major because it was either finish that year with a General, or take 2 more full years and do an Honours degree. I'd managed to arrange my courses without a sensible middle ground. I would like to rectify that mistake.
However, since both Education programs want you to pick your teaching age group immediately, and most of what I could cite as "experience with interacting with and teaching that age level," or however they phrase it, is with older teens, it kind of bites not to be able to apply for Senior Years in both.
Then again, the U of W is a teeny faculty whose information seems designed to discourage people from applying. Since they take 70 students total, and pick and choose those ones carefully, and get well over that many applicants, it does only follow that they would try to narrow down both the qualifying students and to discourage others from applying.
Still, bleah.
Maybe I should check out the school in Edmonton. Not because I think I would qualify anywhere this year, but maybe I could have a greater chance to get into Senior level in 2007. Or Nova Scotia, (where the other Branch of Colin's workplace is) and end up by the sea. Yeah, Colin would *love* displacing ourselves that soon.
I missed one key qualifying bit for the University of Winnipeg Faculty of Education, which is the fact that for Senior level (Ie, teachers for Grades 9-12) Education courses, I *can't* use my Fine Arts Degree, which effectively lifts the number of course I'd have to take to qualify into the impossible-to-do (in just one year...). And the Middle years require a wider diversity of courses than the Senior year, so I'm toasted for having No University level Science/Math. So one way or another, I'd have to take a *larger* number of courses to qualify than I would for the Faculty of Education at the U of M.
I can, however, take one, possibly part time, selection of classes to qualify for everything except U of W Senior Education.
For the U of M, I need exactly one thing, regardless of age group - 6 credit hours worth of English courses (Though having some extras in addition to that would always help.) That would not be a hardship. If I hadn't missed the application deadline for September as it is, I could do it over the Summer Session.
For the U of W, I would need either:
- For Middle Grades - 6 Credit hours of History (Or Geography. But I'd do History.) and 9 of a combination of Math/Science
Or
- For Senior Grades - 18 Credit Hours of English, and 18 of History or French (Or any other suitable Minor, but it has to be tight focused into one Minor, I can't scatter it as I'd like and take some of several things.) OWIE.
I could actually do the English for the U of M and the U of W Middle years qualifications all in one. 21 Credit Hours in one year is a very bearable load (If I'm not working, and that's where an "eep!" comes in). And I could take *that* cluster at either University. Although I am tempted to apply at the U of M just so I can take Ceramics 2 (at last!) to please myself. My Fine Arts Degree ended up with No Major because it was either finish that year with a General, or take 2 more full years and do an Honours degree. I'd managed to arrange my courses without a sensible middle ground. I would like to rectify that mistake.
However, since both Education programs want you to pick your teaching age group immediately, and most of what I could cite as "experience with interacting with and teaching that age level," or however they phrase it, is with older teens, it kind of bites not to be able to apply for Senior Years in both.
Then again, the U of W is a teeny faculty whose information seems designed to discourage people from applying. Since they take 70 students total, and pick and choose those ones carefully, and get well over that many applicants, it does only follow that they would try to narrow down both the qualifying students and to discourage others from applying.
Still, bleah.
Maybe I should check out the school in Edmonton. Not because I think I would qualify anywhere this year, but maybe I could have a greater chance to get into Senior level in 2007. Or Nova Scotia, (where the other Branch of Colin's workplace is) and end up by the sea. Yeah, Colin would *love* displacing ourselves that soon.
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Date: 2006-02-24 08:20 am (UTC)A little more seriously, I think both schools take about a third of their applicants. (I know for a fact that this is, as we philosophers sometimes say, approximately true in the case of the U of M; perhaps Brenna could tell you more about the U of W.) That's actually fairly good odds, certainly compared to the applications I'm doing now where anything over 10% is an extraordinarily high rate of acceptance (3-5% is more common). They make it sound scarier than it is, I suspect to scare off people who aren't serious about it. 33% is still less than half, to state the obvious, but if you have anything going for you at all it's not a number that should intimidate you.
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Date: 2006-02-24 09:34 pm (UTC)33%? That's practically wide open.
Of course, if there are only two places to apply that don't involve moving, that does make it more daunting.
So, what do I have going for me? A good grade point average so far. An ability to write coherently about things (Especially if I edit and copyedit, as I often don't do to my LJ entries). And I'm not "Creepy". ;P
Possible problem in being an arts-focused weirdo, but if that's all that's against me, I'll live. (They get more Arts than Sciences or Maths, and the U of W emphasised that they do take that into account at least at Senior level. Bus since I can't go into their Senior level without drastic efforts anyhow...).