amygdala Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 Did anyone else have verifiers contacted today? I had 3 contacted that I know of. I submitted for Sept 14th deadline btw. Do they usually contact this quick?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mermaidblue Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 hey, wow, how do you know? That is insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mermaidblue Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 also, did you apply for MD or Md/phD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amygdala Posted September 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 My verifiers who were contacted told me they got an email this morning. And I applied for MD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorArts Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Wow! They are quick on the draw... I hope all of my verifiers behave themselves and respond! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter1 Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Has anyone else heard that their verifiers were contacted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baljinderthecrow Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Yes 4 of my verifiers were contacted yesterday. There might even be more, but I know about 4 since the verifiers mentioned it to me. I really hope the others verify my activity description and hours correctly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter1 Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Good to know. Mine haven’t been contacted but some of mine weren’t contacted until November last time so I’m not sure what to think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baljinderthecrow Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Is this a good or bad thing? I can't really tell. I would like to think that because they are taking their time to contact verifiers, they might be interested in my application, but idk if that's true or not. In all honesty this entire process is very scary and nerve-racking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter1 Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 I think it is a good thing. In the past, when I hadn’t heard back from verifiers, I didn’t get an interview. When I heard from verifiers, I got an interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amygdala Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 I looked back at the previous years threads and lots of people had verifiers contacted in Oct/Nov and some had none contacted whereas others had 12. It’s so unpredictable so it’s best probably to try not to read into it as much as we want to. Hopefully everyone’s verifiers respond positively!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeeewww Posted September 25, 2018 Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 Two of my verifiers were contacted tonight. I feel like it is early in the application process but UBC could do things differently and get right to it. Are the applications reviewed alphabetically? Has anyone else received notice from their verifiers about the university getting in touch? Let me know what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slickrick Posted September 25, 2018 Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 also had a verifier contacted yesterday. not sure about my other verifiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coldery Posted September 26, 2018 Report Share Posted September 26, 2018 Would it really be valid to assume that people who had verifiers contacted early submitted better applications? The first verifications were supposedly made no more than one business day after the submission deadline. If they could somehow filter through almost 2000 applications within about a day that would be a reasonable conclusion but I doubt that that's the case. This theory could hold true if verifiers were contacted within a month of application deadline but surely not within a week, let alone a day. (Unless they have an algorithm that somehow filters for really good entries???) 14th - Friday - Submission Deadline 15th - Saturday - No one working 16th - Sunday - No one working 17th - Monday - Certain verifiers contacted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
this_process_is_death Posted September 26, 2018 Report Share Posted September 26, 2018 I think they have a computer contacting verifiers at random, at least at first. Then afterwards, they might contact you/a verifier, if they have further questions. I was contacted last year to clarify something on my application! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanutButter1 Posted September 26, 2018 Report Share Posted September 26, 2018 Excerpt below is from a 2014 blog post by UBC. If that still holds true then anyone who receives the full file review will have a verifier(s) contacted. This post was from late October, and from another part of the post, they stated that they hadn’t completed all file reviews yet, so not everyone would have had a verifier contacted yet. I don’t think we can make any conclusions based on timing/number of verifier contact. 3) How many verifiers do you check and why? We check at least one verifier (usually more) for every applicant who receives a full file review. Sometimes we check a few, sometimes we check them all. We contact them either via email or phone. Verifiers are checked both randomly and for specific reasons. This is an integral component of our evaluation process. It helps to ensure that what you have written is an accurate reflection of your experiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
this_process_is_death Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 Has anyone's verifiers not been contacted yet? Just talked to all of mine in the past 2 days and none of them have received anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Tenma Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 I had at least 3 contacted so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helicase Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 dw verifiers being contacted and interview offers are definitely not correlated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachdoc Posted September 30, 2018 Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 5 of mine were contacted last friday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clever_smart_boy_like_me Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 No verifiers contacted as of yet that I am aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoriaQ Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 2 so far at least, heard from both verifiers today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeeewww Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 If a verifier is contacted but they do not respond, is that experience discredited from your application? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
this_process_is_death Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Happened to me last year. I don't think it gets discredited; the adcom emailed me with a specific question that I answered 34 minutes ago, Yeeewww said: If a verifier is contacted but they do not respond, is that experience discredited from your application? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UWCC Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Haven't heard from any of my verifiers yet, but I also did not explicitly tell any of them to let me know if they were contacted. I would think that because some of them that are familiar with the application process, they would let me know anyway, but still...hmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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