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  1. Sounds like you're at Mac. DM me and I can put you in touch with people who parallel planned Neuro/IM and matched to Neuro (with interviews in both).
  2. My PGME sent info on registration, CPSO, and CMPA a month ago. Might be worth it to touch base with your program to make sure the email didn't get lost.
  3. I feel like there are individual factors that cannot be captured in statistics no matter how we analyze the numbers. Home school advantage is hard to quantify. Some schools don't even have certain programs (no derm at Western, or Queen's for example). Individuals who gun hard for specific specialities will likely do so regardless of which medical school they go to. For smaller programs, personality and "fit" is also important and cannot be quantified easily. Match rates will also fluctuate year to year based on class interest - so unless you combine data from every year it's hard to know which schools are "best" at matching students. Competitiveness of specialities also fluctuate from year to year - for example, 2019 was a difficult year for IM. The reality is, students should not be picking their medical schools based on the CaRMS match rate. Who knows how the match might change in 3 - 4 years by the time they're done.
  4. What elective is this? People might be able to give you a better sense of how busy the service is. If you leave really early and outside of rush hour traffic, it's doable. But you're still adding 2.5 - 3 hours of commuting time to your day at best. You'd probably be leaving around the same time for 7 and 8 AM starts so you can avoid traffic. I think it's also in your interest to live in the area just so you can get a feel of what the city is like for residency - for yourself and so you can answer the question during interviews.
  5. According to the CaRMS website, it's similar to what rmorelan said, the results are audited prior to public release: "Match results are audited prior to public release and verified as a stable match outcome by both CaRMS and the National Matching Service. For more information please refer to: https://www.carms.ca/en/residency/match-algorithm/. " https://carms.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004239246-How-does-CaRMS-audit-the-match-results- I suspect (and hope) schools prepare for more than career planning support. They probably also mobilize mental health and emotional well being support for students who did not match and for those who may have matched to a program very low on their rank list.
  6. I'd still hope they double check things. Imagine if they made a mistake and had to change everyone's match results... People make mistakes on codes and Excel all the time.
  7. Would rather wait so they can double and triple check the results rather than have it sooner and for it to be wrong. Can't imagine the couples match being easy to run haha.
  8. If you've already paid for those programs, you might as well rank them even if you didn't interview. There's no harm and the money is already spent. As mentioned above, the chance of matching to a program you didn't interview at is essentially 0%, but it will absolutely be 0% if you don't rank it.
  9. At Mac, you can complete it through our enrichment year program which most people take between pre-clerk and clerkship. You can also complete clinical electives during this period.
  10. The adviser did mention that the only reason your interest rate for the LOC would go above prime would be if your credit score took a significant hit. What kind of things typically wreck your credit score?
  11. For people who switched, what did you do with you premium card from the old bank? Do you have to pay the credit card fees annually or did you close the account? Does closing the accounts hit your credit rating? - I vaguely recall you can transfer the credit between banks if it's the same credit company.
  12. Ahhh. Perhaps I just have trouble trusting advisors without doing my own research first. Usually if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. I guess I am also suspicious because if it was reasonable for CIBC to offer prime-0.25%, why would other banks not match the rate to keep their customers? I suppose the premium credit cards and other perks would play a role?
  13. I suspected as much when I asked directly if I can get it in writing that it won't go up for as long as I have the LOC and they couldn't deliver that. Someone's word doesn't really mean much to me if they can't guarantee it in writing - especially if I need to switch locations with a different rep during residency. At that point, my debt would have accumulated more and the 0.25% in interest actually makes a bigger difference.
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