Career Life Connections 12: Post-Secondary Plan

Essential Question:
· How can I become more informed, enlightened, and knowledgeable about my options for
post-secondary life?

Curricular Competencies:
· Analyze internal and external factors to inform personal career-life choices
for post-graduation planning
· Explore possibilities for preferred personal and education/employment futures, using
creative and innovative thinking
· Know about diverse post-graduation possibilities, including personal, educational, and work
options
· Practice post-graduation budget planning

Typically, graduating students have a variety of post-secondary plans. You are to choose ONE of
the following three assignment options to complete, which will further your understanding
about the path you are most curious/likely to follow next year.

Follow these steps:

1) Complete ‘Plan A and Plan B’ of the Transition plan

2) Choose ONE of the three options to complete:

· Post-secondary education or training

· Travel / Gap year
· Working full-time

3) Download and complete the assignment (fillable document) on TEAMS associated with your
choice.
 Post – Secondary Life PLAN A:
MY PLAN: Post-Secondary education or training
My Plan A:
Consider:
❏ What do you enjoy?
❏ What sort of lifestyle do you
want?
❏ What are you good at?
Career Info that I have
discovered…
Consider:
❏ Upsides/downsides of job
❏ Job duties/ responsibilities
❏ Salary range
❏ Future outlook
❏ Lifestyle factors
❏ Advancement opportunities
Three employability skills I
possess that will support my
plan:
Consider:
❏ Soft and hard Skills required
for position
❏ Personal attributes
Education needed to pursue my
Name: Seoyeon Lee
❏ I chose the first plan as the ‘Post-Secondary education’
because it is the plan that I actually have putted into an act
and currently progressing for it right now
❏ It is the main goal for me at this point
❏ Going to the post-secondary does not clearly fit into my
lifestyle and does not connect to the things that I enjoy, yet I
still decided to go to university because I think entering
university would allow me to see the world with more mature
and broader perspective. I believe the experiences that I will
earn in the post-secondary will teach me a lot of lessons,
leading me to open new paths for my life.
❏ I still have not figured out my strength, and I believe going to
the post-secondary would develop me into a much better
person allowing me to find my strength.
❏ I am interest in: Dentistry
❏ Upside: good income, autonomy, job stability
❏ Downside: education, unpredictability, high intensity, low
dental insurance
❏ Diagnose and treat dental issues and help patients develop
better oral hygiene regimens. They perform surgeries,
extractions, root canals, and filling cavities.
❏ Salary: $68,000 ~ $205,000
❏ The overall prospect of dentistry is good yet is still going
down.
1. Accuracy of precise hand work
2. Patient and clam personality
3. Oral communication
1. Undergraduate requirement
plan:
❏ Complete at least three years of university education
Consider:
❏ Courses/training/ certificates ❏ There is no preferred degree
needed
❏ Post-secondary ❏ Academic average
requirements - minimum overall GPA of 3.0 on the 4.0 scale

- Minimum GPA: 3.0

- Lowest GPA of accepted applicants 3.85
- Average GPA of accepted applicants

❏ Pre-requisite course
- General biochemistry [1 full year or 2 half year course]
- General mammalian (human or animal) physiology [1 full year
or 2 half year course]
- Life sciences [2 full year or 4 half year course]
- Humanities or Social sciences [1 full year or 2 half year
course]

❏ Dental Aptitude Test (DAT)

- Academic average (AA) score… 22.0
- Lowest AA score granted admission… 18.0
- Perceptual ability (PAT) score… 21.0
- Lowest PAT score granted admission… 16.0

❏ CASPer test… booked and written online, test dates are

available from August to November.

❏ Personal Statement and an Essay

- Personal statement – why do you want to pursue a dental
career? (max. 2 pages)
- Essay – what do you consider to be your greatest
accomplishment and what are the reasons you have chosen
to highlight it? (max. 1 page)
- Letters of reference and shadowing hours are not required

❏ Interview
- Based on academic performance, DAT scores, and
supporting written pieces, selected candidates are invited to
an interview.
- 30 minute interview with two faculty members
- A talk led by the faculty registrar outlining the admission
decision process
- A 30 minute tour of the faculty of dentistry led by current
dental students
- An informal Q&A session led by Dean and current dental
students

Post-Secondary Option
Plan A - Schools/Training
 Name of First Choice School Second Choice School
School:
University of Toronto Western University

Name of Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Science

Degree or type
of training you
will receive
Example:
Bachelor of
Science

Length of the 4 years 4 years

program
Example: 4
years

Price of Tuition $38,190 $23,990 (master program)

for the first year $7,768 to $14,142

Approx. Cost of $1,000 $1,000

books/supplies
for the first year

Cost to live in $17,000 $11,015

Residence

Application Fee $90 (non-refundable) $156 (for 3 program choices)

to apply to $50 (for each additional choices)
program $93.50 (supplemental evaluation fee)

Application January 12, 2023 March 1, 2023

deadline
Example:
February, 13th,
2020

Academic Eng 12 Eng 12 (required)

Requirements Biology 12 (required)
for program Calculus 12 (recommanded)
(pre-requisites) Chemistry (recommended)

Other possible Nursing, Pharmacy, Hospital, Clinic Nursing, Pharmacy, Hospital, Clinic
occupations
with this type of
degree

Post-Secondary Life PLAN B:

MY BACKUP PLAN: Work Name: Seoyeon Lee

My Plan B:
Consider:
❏ What do you enjoy?
❏ What sort of lifestyle do you
want?
❏ What are you good at?
Career Info that I have
discovered…
Consider:
❏ Upsides/downsides of job
❏ Job duties/responsibilities
❏ Salary range
❏ Future outlook
❏ Lifestyle factors
❏ Advancement opportunities
Three employability skills I
possess that will support my
plan:
Consider:
❏ Soft and hard skills required
for position
❏ Personal attributes
Education needed to pursue my
plan:
❏ I enjoy discovering new things in my life and earning
experiences that would challenge me yet give me lessons.
❏ I want lifestyle to be free, filled with the things that I love.
❏ I have not discovered my strength, but there are parts that I
would like to develop which is independence. I want to work
on improving my independence in order to grow into a much
mature person.
❏ I am interested in applying to the international Disney
internship program.
❏ Upside: various benefits from Disney world / offers work
experience for college student
❏ Downside: average salary is $14 per hour, which is slightly
above the US minimum wage / not a professional job, may
not be a unique experience to write on the resume
❏ The program is only for 6 month, and it is for college
students. After the program is done, I can extend it, or come
back and focus on original college program.
1. Perseverance / clam personality
2. Able to speak two languages
3. Hard-working personality
❏ In order to apply to this program, I need to go to university
first and then apply to the international college internship if
 the university has connection with Disney.
Consider:
❏ Courses/training/certificates ❏ Must be age over 18
needed
❏ Post-secondary ❏ Must have completed at least one semester at an accredited
requirements college or university

Work-Life Option
Living Costs and Savings Goal

Income Monthly: Yearly:

Hourly Wage/salary (14*8)*22 = $2464*12 =

approximately $2464 approximately
$29563

Parents N/A N/A

Total Income

Expenses:

Rent $144~$205 $1728~$2460

● List where you plan to live (either a
link or a detailed description)

Medical Insurance $541 $6492

Utilities $290 $3480

Food/Grocery $300 $3600

Car Insurance N/A N/A

Gas for Car N/A N/A

Car Repairs N/A N/A

 Compass cost $58 $696

Cell Phone/Internet $56 $672

Clothing $100 $1200

Entertainment / Going out $150 $1800

Personal sundries N/A N/A

Recreation / Gym membership N/A N/A

Other $150 $1800

-parking fees
-gifts
-house supplies
-specialist fees
-eye care/prescriptions
-hair cuts
-move in costs (furniture, truck rental)

Savings
-try and save 10%

Total Expenses $1825 $21900

Total Income MINUS Total Expenses $639 $7668

Write a reflection on whether your job will support your lifestyle.

● What sacrifices will you have to make?

- The sacrifices that I will have to make would be moving out from my house and
become independent, giving up my parent’s support.

● How will your priorities change?

- In my opinion, I think my priorities would change into pursuing and discovering
what I really like and what I want to do, from the basic priority of just getting good
marks.

● How much money do you plan to save per year? What will you use your savings
for in five years? Ten years? What are your savings goals?
- I would like to save at least $5000 per year. I think I would use the saving into
paying the tuition for university.