University of Toronto’s recruitment officer explains how to complete UTSC’s supplementary application form (SAF). This information session is held at Columbia International College, Ontario. (transcript as follows)
My name is Jenny Irwin and I'm a student recruitment officer for the University of Toronto , but today I'm particularly representing the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus and my goal is to give you a bit of an introduction to UTSC’s supplementary application form or SAF as we call it for short.
Your answer to the questions on the supplementary application form is going to be used in our admissions assessment in addition to your academic marks. Academic marks are first and foremost, they are the most important for us. However, your responses on your supplementary application form will sway us in certain circumstances when perhaps your grades are not quite competitive enough for the program that you applied to. So the SAF can help you and it could also hurt you, however.
We require SAF for programs that are looking for applicants to have certain qualities or experiences or different sets of skills that are going to help them be successful within that program. We only require a supplementary application form from applicants who applied to the programs that you see listed there: all management programs at UTSC including non-co management, co-op management and co-op management and international business. We also require SAF for anyone who applied to co-op International Development Studies or Journalism or Para-medicine. If you did not apply to one of these programs, you are not required to submit a supplementary application form.
I know that this may be a little bit confusing for some of you. In the past, we did required SAFs for everyone who applied to any co-op program at UTSC. This is no longer the case. We only require the SAFs for those programs listed there.
So if you are indeed required to submit a supplementary application form, please try to do so within three weeks applying to UTSC or by January 30 of this year to be considered in earlier rounds of admission. It is critical that you submit the supplementary application form if you want to be considered for your program a choice.
If you do not submit your SAF and you are required to do so, we unfortunately will be unable to consider you for your chosen program, but we will consider you for an alternate offered admission to a different program or area.
So again, if you are required to submit a SAF, where do you find it? So you're going to access your supplementary application form through the joint U of T portal and the login instructions for the joint U of T Portal are provided to you in your original University of Toronto acknowledgement email. So go back to check for that for those login details.
Once you log into the joint portal, this is what it looks like. At the top you'll see a list of the different programs you applied to at the University of Toronto and directly next to it on the right, you'll see a light blue button that says Check Status. If you click the check status button, you're going to go to application status check and this is essentially a window into your application and how it is in the processing fees at the U of T and what else might be required from you to submit your application.
So within application status check, there is a document section and somebody may be required to submit additional documentation to complete your application. If you're required to do a SAF, that is where you're going to find it. In that document section, there will be a link within documents. Click on that link to get to the SAF and it’ll take you to the SAF home page that has instructions for completing the SAF.
Please, please read those instructions very carefully and once you are fully sure that you understand how to proceed , you can then take a look at the links on the top left right up where you see personal information, award information etc. Those are the different sections of the SAF that you need to fill out. You do not need to complete them in any particular order. You could do one before another, nor do you need to complete them all at the same time. You don't have to do the entire SAF in one sitting. You can log out of the SAF and then come back to it later if you want to.
You do however, if you plan to do that, need to complete the page that you are working on and at the bottom of each page there's an updates section button. If you do not click that button and then you navigate away from the page, you will lose all the work that you just did and I learned that the hard way because I filled out the SAF, I didn't submit and I lost everything. So be sure to hit update section if you're done the page you want to move on.
