Dbzmay – I understand your frustration and the need to vent, but your posts have compelled me to vent as well.
To begin, the application process is very competitive and there are people on this forum who dream of becoming a teacher. You have been accepted into two programs at one of the best schools in Canada, yet you feel the need to say “fuck my life” as if your life is awful and over because you were not accepted to the I/S program. There are applicants who have worked hard and dream of becoming a teacher but won’t even get into a program, let alone a program at OISE. (Vcnj, thank you for the more respectful and considerate post.)
Second, the tone in your post suggests that what you are really saying is “Either something strange is going on here, … or something strange is going on here because my credentials are amazing.” If you had a purpose in listing all of your credentials, I can’t think of one other than to express that it would be unlikely for other applicants to have had better credentials; this is confirmed by your comment that the selected applicants must have blown your excellent credentials out of the water. But it wasn’t necessary for the selected applicants to have blown your credentials out of the water to have been successful; they simply needed to be better. Very few of your credentials involve experience in traditional classroom settings, which I believe they attribute more weight to. And while you may have completed a program that specifically prepares you for teaching, I’m not quite sure that would put you at any advantage in the application process, given that the purpose of the program you are applying to is to train you to become a teacher. There are other applicants who completed their undergraduate programs with a cumulative A average and have spent all four years and their summers working in the classroom setting. You’re credentials are impressive, and your achievements are respectable in light of the struggles you underwent, but keep in mind what the school specifically stated it is looking for and what other applicants likely had.
Good luck with the rest of your applications. Hopefully you get into a program that makes life worth living.
