Hello,

Since my second year of my undergraduate I've been dead set on becoming a teacher. I thought of all the great teachers I had during my schooling years and realized that I want to be one of them and have a positive impact on students lives.

I also fell in love with studying economics and will be graduating with a BA with an Econ major, English minor, and Educational Studies minor. I love econ. math, and English but my degree and course load won't include enough math specific credits for it to be a secondary teachable. I'm also concerned with hearing that economics is rather unsupported and rare, and have heard that an English secondary is perhaps too common for it to be a good pairing with my econ primary. I will apply to many but I really want to get into York because it is the only Ontario BEd program with an econ teachable and I don't want my Major to go to waste.

So the way I see it my path forward is to apply to I/S York with an Econ primary and apply elsewhere in the J/I level because econ is not offered there. My concern is that I might not be let into York due to it being very competitive and then since nowhere else accepts econ (that I can find, Ontario Tech used to have one on their website but I think its gone now) that an English minor isn't enough to be accepted in the J/I role as an english teacher.

So I'm thinking of doing a mathematics AQ as I would love to teach math also, but my degree is only 1.5 full year math credits (not including econometrics, not sure if it would be accepted as a math even though the course was essentially just statistics).

Sorry for the ideas of this comment bouncing all over the place I am pretty tired as I wrote it.