Tranc3r Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 http://mdprogram.med.ubc.ca/admissions/admissions-statistics/ IP TFR cutoff: 52.65 (42.57% IP applicants got invite) OOP TFR cutoff: 63.46 (11.16% OOP applicants got invite) Relevant Admission's blog post: http://mdprogram.med.ubc.ca/2014/12/01/pre-interview-scores-faqs-20142015/ IP: Wow, 195 more applicants than last year. Seems like the jump from 51.10 (last year's cut off for IP) to 52.65 allowed them to compensate for these added applicants and only interview 574 applicants, just one more than last year. 1.55 point jump eliminating ~195 ppl... damn! Here, have a panda to make yourself feel a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldpizzahotsriracha Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 "I am a re-applicant. I feel I have more activities and volunteer experiences than last year, but my NAQ score has not increased. Why? Each year, the applicant pool is different, as is the average applicant profile used by non-academic evaluators. In addition, while we look for the same aptitudes and qualities each year, we periodically revise how we evaluate and score these qualities. All of these may contribute to a lower-than-expected NAQ score."This is a little worrying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow_knight Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 http://mdprogram.med.ubc.ca/admissions/admissions-statistics/ IP TFR cutoff: 52.65 (42.57% IP applicants got invite) OOP TFR cutoff: 63.46 (11.16% OOP applicants got invite) Did the IP TFR increase by 1 point compared to last year? "Academic scores, like non-academic scores, are standardized against the current applicant pool, which changes from year to year". Did they standardize the AQ scores before too, or is this new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldpizzahotsriracha Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Did the IP TFR increase by 1 point compared to last year? "Academic scores, like non-academic scores, are standardized against the current applicant pool, which changes from year to year". Did they standardize the AQ scores before too, or is this new? They standardized them last year, I believe. You can see a huge drop from 2012/13 to 2013/14 because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med-dream Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yes. IP TFR is higher than last year, and oGPA/aGPA is even higher than the year before last year, the highest one in the past few years. Did the IP TFR increase by 1 point compared to last year? "Academic scores, like non-academic scores, are standardized against the current applicant pool, which changes from year to year". Did they standardize the AQ scores before too, or is this new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tranc3r Posted December 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 AQ= 1.526*(adjust/overall %)-104.89 Last year's AQ formula still kinda works, but it seems the lower gpa got lower AQ score while higher gpas got higher AQ (due to normalizing)... remember, all speculation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleming Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Yikes! That's a lot of applicants and a pretty big bump in interview cutoff. Give it a couple years and the requirements will be a perfect GPA and a nobel prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherThought Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 AQ= 1.526*(adjust/overall %)-104.89 Last year's AQ formula still kinda works, but it seems the lower gpa got lower AQ score while higher gpas got higher AQ (due to normalizing)... remember, all speculation! I plotted the AQ and aGPAs and got this for a formula: AQ = 1.4953 (aGPA) - 102.45 It's fairly similar, but it looks like this year is slightly more NAQ dependent than last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldpizzahotsriracha Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 It's fairly similar, but it looks like this year is slightly more NAQ dependent than last year. That's a little scary considering how opaque UBC with regards to how they evaluate NAQ, although the same could be said for other schools. e.g. - "Although there cannot help but be a degree of subjectivity involved, we feel the standardized process keeps this to a minimum." - "While we look for the same aptitudes and qualities each year, we periodically revise how we evaluate and score these qualities." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyFlynn Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Does the MCAT not function into the AQ score at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthvader Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 "I am a re-applicant. I feel I have more activities and volunteer experiences than last year, but my NAQ score has not increased. Why? Each year, the applicant pool is different, as is the average applicant profile used by non-academic evaluators. In addition, while we look for the same aptitudes and qualities each year, we periodically revise how we evaluate and score these qualities. All of these may contribute to a lower-than-expected NAQ score." This is a little worrying its also worrying because they use random arts and lay people to score our NAQ. that doesn't bode well since I doubt that the average person is going to understand little nuances in NAQ like writing an abstract or proposal or literature review constitutes like 50% of the work in a research project, sometimes even more. too subjective for my taste. or I could just be bitter. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherThought Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Does the MCAT not function into the AQ score at all? MCAT is simply a pass/fail before the interview (ie. more than 7 on each section) The score is taken into consideration in the final decisions, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyFlynn Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 MCAT is simply a pass/fail before the interview (ie. more than 7 on each section) The score is taken into consideration in the final decisions, however. Oh, that makes sense. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
med-dream Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 In 2010/11 cycle, there were 698 of 1891 for interview. This cycle, 655 of 2322. This makes the cutoff higher & higher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepehr Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 MCAT is simply a pass/fail before the interview (ie. more than 7 on each section) The score is taken into consideration in the final decisions, however. Does this apply to OOP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smartpig Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Does this apply to OOP? Yes this applies to everyone, UBC never includes MCAT scores into AQ scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
standbyme Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 I am confused how there are so many questions about this. It is clearly described in multiple areas of their website and help guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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