post secondary help!

heggie88

so I'm in grade twelve now and I've found out most scholarships require you apply to a university for the following year.

I planned on taking a year off, so i lose out on a lot here.

So instead, i was thinking if i were to come to SFU after I wait a year but i will go to ''college'' for a year first so that I can get some free post secondary.

What Im looking for, is a 1 year program(s) that give a certificate in the following:

-website desisgn
-graphic design
-music creation (electronic music making via computer etc)

I figure If i get a free bachelors in one of these it will come to great use to me but i'm having trouble finding one. I've checked out the art institute of vancouver but they are way expensive.

Thanks!

primexx

shouldn't you be asking the colleges about this? most of us only know about SFU programs since, you know, we study here and all.

Is there any specific reason you're willing to go to school but not a university immediately? You could well just come directly, get all your scholarships, and start whatever program you want to take right away. the entrance scholarship is quite a bit of money, and they don't give it to transfer students (afaik).

Anyways, you won't get a bachelors in one year, a certificate, perhaps. Or you can start the program you want to take at SFU and continue it when you transfer over. But look at BCIT, they have some nice tech programs.

JayDub

You have half your terms mixed up so I can't even quite figure out what your are talking about.

Just apply for scholarships when you go to university, in a year.

College is not free post secondary.

Want a 1 year certificate? Go to BCIT.

You won't get a free bachelors and you can't get a a bachelors in one year. The Art Institute does not give Bachelors. You have to go to a university for one of those. You think they are expensive? Wait till you go to anywhere else.

heggie88

Sorry for butchering the words so terribly, I'm entirely aware of the time duration a BA takes and I just made myself look dumb, but you brought something extremely interesting to my attention;

Can i apply for scholarships a year after I've graduated high school? I've been looking over a lot and it seems the majority of them require you to be currently in grade 12.

Also, I will definately check out BCIT.

JayDub

Scholarships can be applied for almost any of the time.

By the way, BA is not necessarily the best acronym to use since I am getting a B.Sc. A bachelor of science.

vonnie

Hmm, your username sounds familiar.

heggie88

vonnie;41434 said:

Hmm, your username sounds familiar.

ya, im the newb that knows shit all about post secondary and NEEDS YO HALP.

Kevin M.

I would be asking the specific school that you are applying to these kinds of questions. And theres no such thing as "free post secondary"

Do you even have the grades to get into a university?

Lixie

What the fucking fuck?

1. How do you get a FREE bachelors? Please tell me, because I want one.

2. How do you get a bachelors in 1 year? Don't you mean a diploma, you dumb grade twelve?

3. I hope you don't pass any requirements for any university--or for any college. I think it would be a sad day for any post secondary when a student who can't even tell the difference between a diploma and a bachelors enrolls at their school.

4. Go back to America.

5. There must always be a 5 in every list.

Myname

If you're poor and hard working, you get quite a bit of scholarship money since they help the poor people that don't have enough money to pay for post-secondary but have the grades to get in.

You can use that money and apply to a cheap school for one year and that'll basically be free.

BTW, you don't need an actual degree to teach multimedia in high school. You don't even need a certificate. You just need to know how to use a computer and a little bit of editing images and videos. Because Info tech and Graphics Design classes in high school are a joke. I learned more from 1 week of programming at post-secondary than I did for the whole year of ICTX12.

Besides, all you need to do to be a teacher is to be smarter than the high school kids.

EricJ

Infotech 12... I kind of regret even taking it (so boring), but it counted towards my average that SFU looked at which definitely was useful.

primexx

Myname;41585 said:

If you're poor and hard working, you get quite a bit of scholarship money since they help the poor people that don't have enough money to pay for post-secondary but have the grades to get in.

You can use that money and apply to a cheap school for one year and that'll basically be free.

BTW, you don't need an actual degree to teach multimedia in high school. You don't even need a certificate. You just need to know how to use a computer and a little bit of editing images and videos. Because Info tech and Graphics Design classes in high school are a joke. I learned more from 1 week of programming at post-secondary than I did for the whole year of ICTX12.

Besides, all you need to do to be a teacher is to be smarter than the high school kids.

that's because ICT is more centered around the multi-media and how-to-use-a-program side of things. If you take the real Computer Science class (it's an AP) you'll learn a lot more than SFU's Intro CompSci courses.

although I guess it could also have something to do with the fact that I had a competent teacher in high school who actually made us learn real shit (we just learned from a book so there's not much actual teaching going on), even in ICT we had to program in ActionScript at a beyond trivial level.

IVT

Myname;41585 said:

Besides, all you need to do to be a teacher is to be older than the high school kids.

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