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I agree. The responses in this thread are pretty indicative of perhaps why those individuals were not selected. There is a reason why lots of traditional interviews ask an applicant to discuss their failures and how they have dealt/coped with it. It matters.

Haha need to address that schulich ratio somehow

I agree the situation can be frustrating but try to look at it from a different perspective. Before, the cutoffs were published and used to determine the interview pool (~400 people). Now, I assume the school invites a similar number of applicants, and states that the cutoffs they use are to determine which candidates proceed to file review. An applicant's aABS is used to determine interview invites. I assume that if they continued using only GPA/MCAT cutoffs to determine interview invites, the cutoffs would now be much higher than last years to obtain a similar interview pool, (READ - many SWOMEN/non-SWOMEN would not have been considered with these new higher cutoffs). I understand its frustrating that Western moved away from a clear objective method to determine interview invites but I think its clear that they had reasons to do so, either wanting their applicants to possess some arbitrary qualities that they deem are a prerequisite and/or keeping up with the natural trend of applicant pool's stats.

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Timestamp: 12:01 pm Result: Accepted to unspecified campus Program: MD wGPA: 3.95 MCAT: 11/12/12 Interview: Went really well, really connected with all members but especially with the community member. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!