First off, you do have elective requirements you have to meet, for example you need 12 arts credits and 3 credits from each “category” of science minus one (https://science.ubc.ca/students/requirements/faculty, see academic calendar for more details). Speaking from a GPA perspective, I find that if you’re actually interested in a subject you can probably do better in those courses than so-called gpa boosters (I heard ATSC 113 is no longer a GPA booster anymore, as well). Another thing to note: I haven’t checked, but I would not recommend taking WRDS 150 with a bad professor because of how much the syllabus differs and the class sizes are small. Much better to take an ENGL course IMO.

reddit.com/r/ubccsss/comments/15a3ge4/do_i_really_need_gpa_boosters/

Hi, here is my program for both terms. I added EOSC111, ASTR101, and applied for the waitlist for PHYS119, and ATSC113. I actually took an ECON course but everyone told me to drop it and take easier courses for my GPA. I wonder do I really need those GPA booster lectures. It seems like a waste of money to take classes that do not attract me and does not meet any of my science reqs. Also WDYT about my program overall? Do you have any opinion?

Just for reference, how much would Google and Meta stand to pay if they didn’t ban Canadians from reading Canadian news?

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While we’re at it, can we ban amp links and other url tracking in general?

No punishment for doing it, but maybe have a bot to remind people.

To clarify, I’m not engaging in whataboutism, I think both of them should be banned (though maybe sometimes affiliate links have their place).

Also, I note that finding the answer to this on the academic calendar was pretty hard for me.

There are like four references to deferred standing, I list them in order of google search results (standing deferred “ubc academic calendar” course registration):

1. https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/campus-wide-policies-and-regulations/grading-practices/standings (does not mention impact on registration)
2. https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/campus-wide-policies-and-regulations/academic-assessment/deferred-and-supplemental-examinations (does not mention impact on registration)
3. https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/faculties-colleges-and-schools/faculty-science/bachelor-science/illness-academic-concession-and-deferred-standing (has a hint, I guess? “Some science courses offered in Term 1 of Winter Session that are prerequisite to courses in Term 2 have scheduled deferred examinations in January. A student with Deferred standing in one of those courses is expected to write the January examination.”, which somewhat implies that you need to write the exam to keep the post-req)
4. https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/faculties-colleges-and-schools/faculty-arts/bachelor-media-studies/academic-concession (about a specific degree in faculty of arts? has some lines that definitely could be misinterpreted to be about registration)

On the Science Academic Calendar registration page, it does mention that “prerequisites are courses that must be successfully completed before taking a course”, but without explicitly mentioning standings there’s no way I would find that without specifically worrying about this issue (which I probably wouldn’t, given that I’ve already been assured by my advisor).

Reddit post for context (not my words):

"No seriously. Like what’s the point of having faculty advising that just gives you incorrect information? I deferred my Math 101 exam at the end of April because I was pretty sick, and was specifically told that deferring the exam wouldn’t impact registration or major selection because “being able to defer an exam means that you have proved thusfar to be successful in the course as you were in good academic standing up until taking the final exam. Therefore we assume you would have been able to pass the course and get the credits.”

I’m now being told by Science Advising that actually, standing deferred doesn’t give you the credits for the course, because you haven’t taken the exam and thus have not completed the course.

What?

I made a pretty impactful decision based off the original answer from Science Advising. If I knew that deferring an exam wouldn’t enable me to register for 2nd-year math courses (and presumably, also reject my math major application since I don’t have the credits for MATH 101), I would’ve just taken the exam sick because even if it affected my GPA, I would’ve at least gotten the credits for it."

I don’t mean to be nitpicking but if the rule is zero-tolerance I think we should clear up the edge cases. I hope you don’t take this the wrong way.

• What happens when the original title is misleading or clickbait? Personally I like how HN handles things in this case (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
• How about if you want to ask a question about a news article as the main focus of the post, but also want to include context about the article?
• Or if you’re making the post to discuss a related topic, and include multiple articles?
• On that note, what even counts as a news article? What if I post a link to a reddit thread about a news article?

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