MedGoldfish Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Will McMaster release their finalized selection criteria before May 12? Their most recent emails don't seem to suggest anything of the sort. Has anyone tried posting a question about their selection criteria on their Slido for tomorrow's Q&A, or do those questions get filtered out by McMaster? hijkl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamom Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 whatever they choose will be very conservative. No experiments with CASPer, no surprises, there's enough novel stuff going on. I'm guessing they will try and map what the GPA, CASPer, CARS scores were from previous years' offers. No one wants to be explaining for years how a new selection formulae was devised in the midst of a pandemic at a moment's notice with socially distant decision makers. IMislove 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitaminwater Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 hour ago, MedGoldfish said: Will McMaster release their finalized selection criteria before May 12? Their most recent emails don't seem to suggest anything of the sort. Has anyone tried posting a question about their selection criteria on their Slido for tomorrow's Q&A, or do those questions get filtered out by McMaster? I submitted a question about this but it was never posted to their Sildo page despite my other questions making it through. I assume they are filtering them out. hijkl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ontariopremed Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 in the the current panel session - mac said they will release more information about the selection criteria in the upcoming weeks campus survey out in 2 days medicallyricalmiracle and chxiel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftTings Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 McMaster WILL release the exact criteria they are using. The Dean of the Waterloo campus just said so during the first virtual info session medicallyricalmiracle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowmanTheSWOMEN Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 Did they take attendance in the meeting today? I woke up late and missed it :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftTings Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 1 hour ago, HeyMrSnowman said: Did they take attendance in the meeting today? I woke up late and missed it :/ Nope, it was very casual and they definitely would not take note of that. Also they said they're posting recordings of all the sessions online SnowmanTheSWOMEN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedGoldfish Posted April 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 Did anyone else see the random shirtless guy walking back and forth in the background during yesterday's presentation? I feel like that sums up the mood of this year's application cycle at Mac. Dippandpip and ontariopremed 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X Æ A-12 Posted April 19, 2020 Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 . hijkl, redbeanbun and MedWonderer 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftTings Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 7 hours ago, MedGoldfish said: Did anyone else see the random shirtless guy walking back and forth in the background during yesterday's presentation? I feel like that sums up the mood of this year's application cycle at Mac. Where was this? I didn't notice this and now I'm worried that I accidentally had my webcam on and it was me lol MedGoldfish, Butterfly_ and Researchbunny100 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamom Posted April 22, 2020 Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 Wonder if they will only post selection formulae after offers go out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedGoldfish Posted April 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 Did McMaster specify when they would release selection criteria? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedGoldfish Posted April 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 On 4/19/2020 at 10:18 PM, SoftTings said: Where was this? I didn't notice this and now I'm worried that I accidentally had my webcam on and it was me lol Oh, don't worry! It was a man in the background of the presenter's screen haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_stack Posted April 22, 2020 Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 33 minutes ago, MedGoldfish said: Did McMaster specify when they would release selection criteria? On the Saturday online session, one of the deans said "in the next couple of weeks". So hopefully before offers actually come out lol MedWonderer, hijkl, MedGoldfish and 1 other 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijkl Posted April 28, 2020 Report Share Posted April 28, 2020 it's so late in the game that at this point i'd almost rather not know... we'll find out the most important information in 2 weeks anyway. justamom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_stack Posted April 28, 2020 Report Share Posted April 28, 2020 24 minutes ago, inkbat said: it's so late in the game that at this point i'd almost rather not know... we'll find out the most important information in 2 weeks anyway. I feel like they're going to release it the Monday after all the mini meet and greets finish, just to protect the student volunteers from being slammed with questions from interviewees. So basically a week before the offers are sent out Edit: I feel so bad about this whole situation, like I have no chance of being considered unless they somehow weigh CASPer the most. In my meet and greet one of the student volunteers said they still expect to maintain the same kind of diversity in the class overall that they've always had, but I really don't see how they would achieve this in reality just based on the numbers in our apps. rinzler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijkl Posted April 28, 2020 Report Share Posted April 28, 2020 52 minutes ago, short_stack said: I feel like they're going to release it the Monday after all the mini meet and greets finish, just to protect the student volunteers from being slammed with questions from interviewees. So basically a week before the offers are sent out Edit: I feel so bad about this whole situation, like I have no chance of being considered unless they somehow weigh CASPer the most. In my meet and greet one of the student volunteers said they still expect to maintain the same kind of diversity in the class overall that they've always had, but I really don't see how they would achieve this in reality just based on the numbers in our apps. good point! i agree - it would be impossible to get their desired results based just on numbers. i'm also in trouble unless they weigh CASPer the most. however, i'm trying to be positive, and i imagine that CASPer results are likely the most correlated with interview performance. let's hope that's true for our sakes short_stack and rinzler 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawRxD Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 At this point I feel like they're not going to release the criteria before results are out lol hijkl and SnowmanTheSWOMEN 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_stack Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 On 4/28/2020 at 1:13 PM, inkbat said: good point! i agree - it would be impossible to get their desired results based just on numbers. i'm also in trouble unless they weigh CASPer the most. however, i'm trying to be positive, and i imagine that CASPer results are likely the most correlated with interview performance. let's hope that's true for our sakes I was neurotic and found published data to support that, but failed to find anything about how GPA or MCAT correlate to MMI performance lol hijkl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedGoldfish Posted May 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 I wonder how McMaster will weigh the formula so that applicants with low GPA and/or CARS still have a chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowmanTheSWOMEN Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 They might have to do some tweaking to ensure that entering stats are similar to previous years. That said, the scoring metric probably won't be a 70/15/15 split, but something else with CASPer worth the most since it has been found to correlate with MMI performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
short_stack Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 13 minutes ago, HeyMrSnowman said: They might have to do some tweaking to ensure that entering stats are similar to previous years. That said, the scoring metric probably won't be a 70/15/15 split, but something else with CASPer worth the most since it has been found to correlate with MMI performance. i SURE do hope so!! shall we do collective prayers for criteria email to be sent early next week? lol SnowmanTheSWOMEN and hijkl 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejvrei Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 I think they will release criteria soon!! In the online sessions they said that McMaster has always been transparent with the selection process and wants to continue to do so! Hopeful they do release it sooner rather than later though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftTings Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 I would assume they didn't want to release it today or earlier because they had all the MMI meet and greets, and didn't want the current med students getting flooded with questions from people about the weighting lol The meet and greets ended today, so I think early next week makes sense for the criteria to be released, but who knows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedWonderer Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 Maybe but what questions would you be even able to ask them lol, the weighting formula seems like a fairly straightforward concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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