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Ottawa Doesn't Look At Ec's This Year For Invites?


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Hey guys. My friend who got an invite for Ottawa said that this was in the interview package. 

 

"Appendix "C": The Interview. Interview of candidates is by invitation only. The invitation is based on the excellence of the academic record, according to parameters defined by the Admissions Committee, combined with the results of the CASPer test. The invitation for interview does not guarantee admission. "

 

I was searching on the Ottawa website to confirm this, but it wasn't specified if EC's were used for pre-interview as well or post-interview only. I thought there was a consensus that EC's were important pre-interview. Thoughts?

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The fact that they do not consider ECs for interview invites is a 100% fact. The split 50/50 between GPA and Casper has been confirmed to me by many reputable sources however I would keep them at an odds of 99% as I do not know if the new dean of admissions had played with the ratio when she took office (she started in mid December I believe).

 

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I find the 50/50 split hard to believe when the GPAs are this incredibly high. Either that or the spread between Casper scores is so small that it doesn't make a difference.

 

 

They could have taken the highest GPAs on one end and the highest Casper scores on the other, and the ones that between the two were the highests took those 575 spots?

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Given that you people are starting to doubt the duck again, I will be a bit more specific.

 

Every year the committee establishes a certain cutoff for both GPAs and Casper scores depending on the performance of the group. This could for example represent the top 30% of applicants (be in 70% percentile for Casper, and a GPA of 3.92 for example).

 

After having met the cutoff, they will weigh your GPA 50% and your Casper score 50%.

 

Hope that clarifies,

 

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Based on previous years, the interview score is on 4, and it will be combined with your GPA on 4.0 scale to give a total number on 8.

 

Given that all applicants have above 3.8 GPAs, the only real discriminatory factor is the interview score (then, if you score the same, the higher GPA gets invited). From previous years, this score is either a 3.5 or a 4/4 interview score.

 

This is the method used a couple of years ago, and could have been changed. However, the Casper means nothing after you receive an interview, and your CV is simply to guide conversation and act as proof of accomplishment, hence I would not be surprised if they still use the method I described above.

 

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I do not know exactly how the interview is graded (I am a candidate after all) but try your best to be yourself, and reason with everything. They want to be able to see that you would be someone they can vision as their colleagues, as a student of their own, or as a friend. If you come off as fake, they won't know what to think of you. And of course, try to stay calm and collected.

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