gimmeMD Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 How does Dalmed view applicants with Phd's? Masters? How do they weigh these degrees towards admissions/interviews Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PulsusParadoxus Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 Basically, all the graduate degree does is it changes how your GPA is calculated. For example when applying with a Bachelors degree, your best 3 years are assessed (one of three has to be a "senior" year) With a Masters, your Masters GPA counts for 1 year, and you use your best two (one must be a senior year) from undergrad, a PhD would mean they assess your grades in the PhD program and your third or fourth year of undergrad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnias Posted December 15, 2017 Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 18 minutes ago, MTHFR677 said: Basically, all the graduate degree does is it changes how your GPA is calculated. For example when applying with a Bachelors degree, your best 3 years are assessed (one of three has to be a "senior" year) With a Masters, your Masters GPA counts for 1 year, and you use your best two (one must be a senior year) from undergrad, a PhD would mean they assess your grades in the PhD program and your third or fourth year of undergrad. Funnily enough, I have a 3.5 in my third year. I was eligible to apply to Dal OOP after finishing my bachelor's, but starting (and finishing) a master's made me ineligible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gimmeMD Posted December 15, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2017 What about a Phd without many courses? Like maybe no courses at all. How does this work? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExercMed Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 All PhD courses are assessed as one year + one full time senior year (3 or 4). Not sure of many PhD programs that have absolutely no course work through... But for discussion, I would assume that there would be some special circumstance in which case I would think you need to call admissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chels1267 Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 22 hours ago, gimmeMD said: What about a Phd without many courses? Like maybe no courses at all. How does this work? Thanks! I would assume that if you have no courses you'd just use one of the other undergrad formulas. MSc/PhD only change GPA at Dal, nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballsortahard Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 while were on this topic, dal will not let you apply for medical school while enrolled in graduate studies correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExercMed Posted December 18, 2017 Report Share Posted December 18, 2017 I believe that as long as you are finished your graduate degree by matriculation (or the specific date set by the institution for proof of degree fulfilment), then you are able to apply. I.e. you can't apply in your first year of grad school and then drop out of the program if you get accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballsortahard Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 On 12/18/2017 at 3:33 PM, ExercMed said: I believe that as long as you are finished your graduate degree by matriculation (or the specific date set by the institution for proof of degree fulfilment), then you are able to apply. I.e. you can't apply in your first year of grad school and then drop out of the program if you get accepted. But if given permission from your PI could you defer your graduate degree to go to medical school for 4 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExercMed Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 I'm unsure on that. Something might be able to be arranged if you are doing your graduate degree at Dalhousie, however, I don't think it's possible to do that if you are applying from another school. It would be best to contact admissions directly. From what I recall, they are fairly strict on the grad school matriculation policies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballsortahard Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 Thanks for the information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chels1267 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 16 hours ago, ballsortahard said: But if given permission from your PI could you defer your graduate degree to go to medical school for 4 years? No. Dal requires your MSc be complete before acceptance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PulsusParadoxus Posted December 22, 2017 Report Share Posted December 22, 2017 No, they do not allow deferral of graduate studies to complete medicine, even with the permission of the PI. After 4 year of medicine you're gone to residency, you won't want to try to do a graduate program then. As per their website, all requirements of the degree have to be met by July 30th of the year you start medicine, and they need to see a letter from you university's School of Graduate Studies (or equivalent). If not, they rescind your offer of acceptance. Don't apply mid-program if there's even a slight chance you won't be finished. It would totally suck to be accepted and then have the rug pulled out from underneath you because something went wrong at the last moment. On 2017-12-21 at 2:11 AM, ballsortahard said: But if given permission from your PI could you defer your graduate degree to go to medical school for 4 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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