[SpaceMonkey]

Program-wise: SFU is more flexible.

In UBC, you only do course selection once a year, meaning you need to decide on your courses for the next year in a short period of time. SFU course selection is by semester (happens every 3 month), this is beneficial for someone who decided to change major after their first semester.

In UBC, you do not know the final exam date for your courses at the time of course selection. It is almost impossible to space out the exams so you have enough time to study for each. In SFU, final exam dates are posted at the time of course selection. Students are free to take courses with final exam dates that suits their needs. This may not seem like a big deal, but your course grade depends on this since most final exams are worth 50% or more.

In UBC, if you fail a course and retake it, they take the average of the two. In SFU, they will take your best grade and not the average.

SFU requires no LPI, UBC does.

[en_saru]

awesome~ heih~ that makes me wanna go to sfu~ heih~

[晴天]

But SFU has that "curving" thinging ~

[en_saru]

curving thing..?? what does that do..??

[aezs]

最初由 en_saru 發表
curving thing..?? what does that do..??

Basicly means, if the whole class gets 95% and you get 90%, u fail the course....

[neo]

最初由 aezs 發表


Basicly means, if the whole class gets 95% and you get 90%, u fail the course....

and it is quite often to have a class gets over 85% average and I do take a course that have 93% average finally

[en_saru]

wut!!!!! seriously~ ><
hmm...wel..how bout ubc..?? what is it like..??

and bout the gpa thing~ how do we calculate it..or school tells us itself

[yuan]

最初由 en_saru 發表
wut!!!!! seriously~ ><
hmm...wel..how bout ubc..?? what is it like..??

and bout the gpa thing~ how do we calculate it..or school tells us itself

ubc go by %
in ubc, u can always check ur grades online.

hey i been tryin' to get into sfu ever since high school...
that school rejected me 4 times...:blast:

[yuan]

最初由 en_saru 發表
wut!!!!! seriously~ ><
hmm...wel..how bout ubc..?? what is it like..??

and bout the gpa thing~ how do we calculate it..or school tells us itself

ubc is good in a way cuz most of the time, what u get is what u end up. very rarely does a prof scale.. unless everyone gets really low, then the prof might scale down.

[en_saru]

hmm..poor you nehh~ 4 times..~ damn>< ..

so your the 3rd year in ubc now lo~???
wel..i am starting 2nd year next year..but i have no idea what courses i should choose..~ ><