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bump for the upcoming year

There were several who got offers with lower GPAs than mine on the accepted thread boss

Yeah poster referenced is fake news. I got in with a 3.83 and 127 cars this cycle. Def possible

Time Stamp: January 30 2020, 10:04 AM Invite/reject: Invite IP/OOP: IP SWOMEN (Y/N): N 2YGPA: 3.82 MCAT (CHEM/CARS/BIO/PSYCH): 128/127/128/126 Essays (X/8): 8/8

Taken from UWO MD Admission website: What is defined as "potentially adversely impacted..." and what is considered a socio-cultural barrier? The ACCESS Pathway is vaguely worded around these two areas so if any UWO alumn/students could chime in, that would be great.

I am conflicted about my experience here in Canada versus what it would have been like in the US. I think I would statistically have a better chance at getting in but the strict regiment in Canada in terms of GPA really accelerates intellectual and personal growth. That growth may come at a cost but I am ok with it. I would like to see the merit of Canadian doctors versus US ones because of how strict our requirements are up here. People on SDN and **DELETED** denounce CASPR was some arbitrary, fake intellectual money black hole for applicants but we see it as something that has worth in considering who should be a doctor or not. I'm not really sure what statistics I'd look up to confirm or deny the ability of doctors across borders but my gut says that its about the same since you do the same procedures anyways (when we match up specialties) and distinction is acquired through pioneer research.

Canadian schools have a variety of grading scales as well so I find it hard to believe that the disparity between country GPA conversion is that huge. We are talking about from 0.3-0.5 deviation here from the Canadian competitive GPA and the US competitive GPA. That too is a big generalization as the US disparity and medicine opportunities allow for people with 3.0 GPAs to get an acceptance.

Our GPA is higher in the state technically but we compete for less spots so the cutoff for interviews is higher. Also there is no weight scale so its all cumulative and ECs matter a lot more. The Canadian Dollar is so bad that even the regular costs of US MD is elevated to astronomical amounts due to the dollar difference. Honestly, Trudeau is making no normal premeds comfortable enough to apply to the US. Premeds are aware of the debt they incur but now its getting ridiculous. Every time I see a SDN post with a guy that has a 3.5 GPA getting 3 acceptances to MD schools at tropical locations, I look back here where having a 4.0 means nothing is guaranteed. Sigh.

So is anyone here thinking of doing medicine in the states? How would you feel about doing US med with Trump as president?

I have enjoyed my return to school. Saw my friends and enjoy all of the classes I am taking so far.

To those worrying about their CARS score, McMaster recently published their class of 2019 cycle admission statistics on their website. http://mdprogram.mcmaster.ca/docs/default-source/admissions/classof2019.pdf?sfvrsn=2 This should give you a good idea of where you need to be for your CARS score in order to be a competitive applicant.

My friend is taking the 1510 for physics currently in the summer and says that its very easy and straightforward. He says that he spent 2 weeks on significant digits. It depends on how deficient in science you are really.