Opinions on GPA competitiveness

[mehcanadian]

I've heard a bunch of different opinions but would like a general consensus on the following sentence:

'a GPA above a 3.85 OMSAS + a solid cars score + good ECS' is a competitive applicant?

I've heard so many contradicting opinions about GPA, ECs and CARS - of course the higher the more competitive.

Thanks so much!

pls dkm for this post, I'm sure several people have asked before but I find this forum so useful

[Meridian]

Each Ontario school looks at the parameters a little differently for interviews.  The sentence you propose is too vague to give a meaningful response.  What does "solid" and what does "good EC's" mean ?

 

[mehcanadian]

Just now, Meridian said:

Each Ontario school looks at the parameters a little differently for interviews.  The sentence you propose is too vague to give a meaningful response.  What does "solid" and what does "good EC's" mean ?

 

Ah sorry! I meant something like a 129+ CARS and ECs involving research, volunteering, exec at uni clubs etc

[curlin]

I think so, I have similar stats and I got a couple interviews 

[LastStar]

On 2/11/2019 at 8:50 PM, curlin said:

I think so, I have similar stats and I got a couple interviews 

what were your stats? And did you just recently get interviews? 

[curlin]

i had 3.85 GPA, it went higher with different weighting systems
131 CARS
strong research, LOR's, variety of other EC's (feel free to msg me if you want details)

and yes i recently got interviews

[Happy_go]

6 hours ago, curlin said:

i had 3.85 GPA, it went higher with different weighting systems
131 CARS
strong research, LOR's, variety of other EC's (feel free to msg me if you want details)

and yes i recently got interviews

131 cars is not similar to 129+