Hi guys,
Waiting on UofT 2-year and Laurier part-time online for September.
I last applied to UofT in 2018 and received a response (waitlist) on March 26th 2019.
I took a year off from applying and this year my application had ~4500 hours of work experience (research assistant in various psychology labs, worked full-time in a clinic/lab for past 2.5 years and was able to do clinical/psychiatric assessments and code counselling sessions for treatment fidelity), ~1500 hours of volunteer experience (Kids Help Phone mostly for past 3 years), 1 research publication, 2 conferences/abstracts, a couple blog posts on a research/advocacy website, and several other manuscripts in progress. My GPA for the last 10 credits honestly wasn't great (~78%) so I went back and took a few courses as a non-degree student and got 4.0s - apparently they won't count into my GPA but hopefully they make an impact. I also put a lot of work into my personal statement and had one of the social workers at my current work review it, I talked a lot about my own experiences with mental health and tied it back to my work and volunteer history.
The waiting game is so hard and I just want to find out the result either way lol.