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  1. All depends on where you want to settle down. Somewhere like London is becoming corporation heavy with lots of Lifemarks and CBIs in town. My hometown and where I’ll be working, Windsor, the corporations are not as popular because many Windsorites expect a certain level of care that isn’t met with those corporation “puppy mill”-like operations. Ownership is possible if you can tap into a market that hasn’t been serviced greatly yet (ScoliClinic is a great example of this) or if you can open in an area that isn’t saturated yet. You have to be able to set yourself apart from other clinics in town, that’s the only way you’ll survive for the remainder of your career.
  2. Western I believe will depending on the circumstances. I know for sure McMaster won’t allow it (asked to defer for a year because my daughter was born a week before classes) so I just declined my acceptance and tried again the following year. I would email western’s program admin to confirm though
  3. I believe a firm acceptance takes you off of the wait list for other schools. A provisional acceptance would be an acceptance for now in case you don’t get off any wait lists, but you can change to a firm acceptance of a wait list option if you get off it.
  4. Someone in the program got into med school a few days after classes started so they said “see ya!” and they needed one more person to fill the seat.
  5. Current 2nd yr MPT student at UWO here. Congrats to everybody who got accepted today and to those who were waitlisted, don't give up! My class has 1 guy who got accepted 1 week after classes started. You never know what could happen, but all of your times will come, whether that's this year, next year or the next after that. You are all amazing people wanting to do amazing things and you will be rewarded at some point. If anyone has any questions specific to UWO I am more than happy to provide some insight to the program to you! Take care of yourself and keep dreaming big!
  6. This is a very good point I hadn't considered at all. I just assumed the PT and OT placement catchment areas were the same. My apologies. I am speaking from the PT side of things and can 100% confirm that catchment boundary line for PT I spoke of earlier. I have a 2nd year Western OT colleague who will be getting back to me shortly regarding the placement boundary lines for OT so I can pass the message onto you. So sorry for the confusion, did not even realize our catchment areas were potentially different!
  7. I'm very sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Orillia is not one of the options. It might be part of Toronto's catchment. London's catchment extends only as north and west as Kitchener and Owen Sound. Owen Sound is the furthest from London you can travel within catchment, with Windsor being a close second. I'm not sure where you were looking for the catchment, but in the Western handbook, they're colour coded so you know what catchment is London's. Anything purple is London catchment, Orillia is in an orange. This would be a question for the clinical coordinator. I'm not sure if any PT clinics regularly offer placements in Orillia or if you know of someone who runs/works at a PT clinic in Orillia who would be willing to take on students that you could sweet talk them into offering themselves as a placement opportunity. Now they aren't allowed to say "I want Heather as my student"; they have to offer it to everyone. Of course if only you pick it, then it's a no-brainer as to who gets it, but I'm not sure of the process for getting a placement in Orillia when it might be considered someone else's catchment. If it is Toronto's area, then you'd have to put your name down to do one placement in Toronto and hope your name gets drawn from the hat, or you won't be able to. I know this isn't the answer you were looking for, but wouldn't want you to have false hope. It's always worth the question to see if it's possible, because in that case, 100% you can commute from your parents' place. As far as asking for the same city multiple times, if it's in the catchment area, go for it, but not if it's in someone else's catchment area. You can't be at the same clinical site for more than one placement, but if you're from Owen Sound and your parents live there and you want to move back there one day and would like to network to get a job quicker, then theoretically you could do every placement there. Not many people want to go there anyways because it's not logically commutable from London 5 days a week. Hope this helps! Sorry again!!!
  8. Current 2nd year MPT at Western. Out of catchment placements are not that common, some are easier to make happen than others. Toronto is not easy to make happen, as they only offer so many placements/year to students outside their catchment area and if you apply to want to do Toronto, it's a lottery draw as to whether you'll be able to do that or not. If there's only 9 spots available for your class and there's 14 of you that want Toronto at some point, 5 people are going to get their heart broken. Kind of sucks, but U of T students obviously need to be taken care of first as it is their catchment area. They only allow you to do out of catchment in one of your last 2 placements so you can't do it for multiple placements, but they've had students go to all those places you listed. Currently with the pandemic, no one is allowed to leave Ontario for placements, so I'm not sure what that will look like moving forward though. The thing with Western, because the catchment area is so large and there's usually so few placements available in London, you are required to do 2 placements outside of London (OOL). The trick here is if you go to Ottawa, this counts as an "in London" placement, not outside of London as you would logically think. An OOL placement is any town/city that isn't London, but is within London's catchment area. The minute you go past Kitchener for placement, or leave the province, although you are "OOL" you're completing an "in-London" placement. Lots of students ask about going to Toronto for placement, as a bulk are from that surrounding area and this is something they have to consider when meeting Western's requirements. If/when you get into Western, your clinical placement advisor will be able to give you a better answer as to the process of how that actually occurs. If you happened to work somewhere in Ottawa as a PTA/OTA or something to that effect and you've spoken to the owner and they've said they would love to take a student on, you could make her job easier by letting her know this clinic is interested in taking a student on (you) and she then can reach out to them to make the appropriate professional arrangements, but you can't set your own placement up. Has to be done through her, but she's always open to ideas being brought forward like that. Hope this helps!
  9. Absolutely not. If you can afford it and you’d be equally happy getting either PT or OT, go for it! More chances for you to get something at the end of the day!
  10. Current 2nd year MPT student at UWO. If anyone has questions about the application process or the program in general, don’t hesitate to shoot questions my way!
  11. Each school has a different number of students that they accept for the program. For Western, I'm the class of 2021 and we have 80 spots available, up from 70 spots the year prior. U of T has I believe 100-110 spots. Mac I'm not sure on how many slots there are, but I would gather it'd be around 70-80. Western may have upped the spots again for students and had very few who accepted through the first round. It's doubtful, but possible since there is room in the classrooms and needed to fill multiple spots where students didn't accept because they may have chose U of T for example, who accepts more to begin with. I was waitlisted at Western for the class of 2020 and I was somewhere between #50-100 and didn't receive a call. I don't think they even got out of the first tier of waitlist numbers, which is usually #1-25 or something to that effect. The class of 2021 has a few students who were somewhere in the #40-60 range and counted Western out because they thought there was no way they would get in, and were shocked when they received the call. Every year is different based on the applicants decisions and where they ultimately decide to go based on first choice or only choice parameters. Perhaps most to all of the applicants who were given acceptances to Mac accepted them and they only needed to get 3-4 people from the waitlist. You could always try and call them to see if they will give you any information on the waitlist movement, or if they are full up. It can be very frustrating because there is no real formula as to why some schools have multiple waitlist spots get the call and some have virtually none. Don't give up hope and reach out to Mac would be my recommendation!
  12. Western for my class (MPT 2021) required either Basic Life Support (First Aid) OR CPR-C (just CPR). I did the CPR-C because for my local class offering, half was online and then I had to attend in person from 8-12 on a Saturday, as opposed to doing a whole day or a Whole weekend worth of stuff. Western will send you the info beginning to mid July with the exact requirements. We didn’t receive our info until mid-late July, but they were delayed I believe due to administration re-structuring. Keep an eye out, it’ll be coming soon!
  13. I just finished first year in the PT program and my status is still “accepted offer”, so it won’t change, don’t worry. Once you’ve accepted the offer and got that green circle, you are good to go!
  14. Kitchener is pretty much the end point to the east. The catchment area goes as south as Windsor, as north as Owen sound, and everything in between and west. You can do a placement in the GTA, but they only have about 7 spots open for the school/year that you must let the clinical director at the school know. Basically you say yes I want to do the GTA within the first few weeks, your name goes into a hat with the rest of the students in first year who say they want the GTA and if you get your name drawn, great you get to do one placement in the GTA at some point, if you’re not drawn, uNfortunately that’s your only shot and you won’t be allowed to do a GTA placement for the entirety of the program. The reason the spots are so few and far between is because you are essentially encroaching on the U of T PT students territory and lessening their opportunity for their placements in their catchment area. It would be similar to the U of T PT students wanting to do a placement in London, they take away placements from Western students essentially. This may not even be in effect for the current year because of COVID-19 because placements are even fewer in choice than before. Hopefully that answers your question!
  15. Hey everyone! Congratulations to all who applied. Whether you have received acceptances or are wait listed or rejected, you should all be proud you took the step that you did. You’ve probably heard it 1000 times, but do not get discouraged if you weren’t accepted. Your time will come! I’m a current Western MPT student that is willing to answer any questions you may have about the program coming into the new year. I know it will look much different than what I went through this past fall, but the faculty are doing everything they can to make sure you don’t miss out on important information. I know it will be a stressful time, given COVID-19, but you will be taken care of. I just sat on a focus group this past week for what the program is going to look like for the first years coming in on a broad scale, so I have a fairly decent idea of what you can expect, since it will be entirely unique to you. Feel free to ask anything you want about the program or the school in general! I remember sitting on this forum for the last 2 years awaiting my acceptance and thinking of the 100s of questions I had before I got to Western. Hopefully I can answer some of those for you! Best of luck to those on the wait list! Our current class had their last student accept 1 week after classes start, so NEVER count yourself out!
  16. Applied + (PT or OT?): McMaster, Western (both PT)Accepted: McMasterWaitlisted: Western (lower third)Rejected:GPA: sGPA: 3.95, cGPA: 3.85 I am excited I was accepted to McMaster, but Western was my dream school to get into. I'm putting this out there on this thread to just talk about this and see if anyone has any advice, or if anyone here is currently attending the PT program at McMaster to provide some information on how the classes run, time frames, etc. I'm finding myself needing to make a difficult decision over the next few days. My wife is pregnant with our first child and I couldn't be more thrilled I get to be a father in a few months. The only downside to this, is this is affecting my decision I need to make as far as acceptance is concerned. . Original plan if everything worked out was as follows: Get accepted to Western PT, wife gives birth mid August, we find a place to rent in London or in an area around London, we move, I go to school, work and spend time with my child when I can, and wife is on maternity leave for first year so someone is always watching the baby. Decision that needs to be made: A: Do everything in original plan, but accept McMaster and move to Hamilton or an area around Hamilton. B: Stay behind one year, apply to both programs again, and try again next year, but take this year to work to put our family in a stable financial situation. Pros about accepting McMaster and moving: #1 I get to continue with my studies in becoming a PT, my dream job since the first day of my undergrad. #2 the sooner I go and complete the program, the sooner I'm able to provide the best I possibly can for my family. Cons: #1 Hamilton and its surrounding areas are expensive as far as renting is concerned. I currently rent a beautiful townhouse and sadly can't downgrade to an apartment as we have a 100+lb dog who we love with all our hearts and could never give up or re-home due to a move. #2 Wife has to be with baby all the time and has no support system in Hamilton other than myself, who will be at school and working all the time. I'm also concerned with how much time I may miss with my first child in their first year/few years of their life. Pros about staying behind one year: #1 Better financial situation for my family moving forward with the extra year of working #2 Wife and I have a support system where we live now and can ask my mom to babysit if we ever need it. Cons: #1 I have to put everything on hold for a year #2 There is no guarantee that I will get accepted to either program next year if I reapply. I have already contacted the program coordinator at McMaster to see if I could defer my acceptance for a year due to my situation, which they stated is not an option. I also cannot accept the program and then claim parental leave unless I've been in the program for a year. Any advice anyone could provide would be extremely appreciative. I didn't have a father growing up and I want to be the best father and role model my child could ever want and need. As much as the timing of baby and school is awful, my wife and I have always wanted to have a family and that part of our life is going to happen very shortly, and we are both over the moon about it. I just want to make the best decision for myself and my family at the end of the day. I know we are all different here and come from different situations, so hoping someone out there can provide some insight or someone has some experience in the program as to what class hours are like per week and things like that. Sorry for the long post everyone. Congrats to all those who have been accepted!
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