Student review [#53946] for Political Science
at University of Toronto - UofT

U of T stands out to many as a school with a reputation. Many will call it U of Tears because of its hardcore and challenging reputation, but I personally find this more of a strategic and political move on the university’s part. When you start your first year, you are promised images of world-class education when in reality, you are just 1 out of 2000 students in a class (make use of the seminar courses!). Professors consistently tell you what that they get in trouble for having too-high course averages and TAs will tell you 80 is the new 100 when it comes to grading papers. They tell you 90% is impossible. The truth is that I found my first year in ArtSci fairly easy. If you put in the work in the Social Sciences, the grades are there – the only thing that ends up hindering your experience is the politics of U of T and their ceaseless desire to be seen as a “hard school”.