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J.H
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Not OT, but here's my experience:  I took a year between high school and college to travel and volunteer, it remains one of the best decision I've ever made. I started post-secondary at a college

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A bit off topic, but this forum post (the 2020 version) has over double the pages of the 2019 one. 

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Hey everyone! Just a heads up that ORPAS changed the earliest date to receive OT/PT offers to May 29th   https://www.ouac.on.ca/guide/orpas-dates/ 

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Applied (OT): U of A, UBC, U of M
Accepted:
Waitlisted:
Rejected:
cGPA: 3.83, sGPA: 3.95 (I think these are right, both out of 4.0?)
 

Perceived strength of essays/interviews/references: 

I think my letter of intent/essays were pretty well done, but I also don't have anything to compare it to so I'm sort of nervous about that. I'm pretty confident in my references. I have a lot of research experience (3.5 years in a lab during undergrad, 1 year in a different lab after undergrad). In the lab work during undergrad I did a poster presentation at two conferences, and have a publication from my honours thesis work. However, that stuff is  completely unrelated to OT (bird neuroanatomy), so I'm not sure how much it will matter. My post-undergrad research work was a little bit more relevant. I've been working in disability services for the last year and shadowed a few OTs.

For a number of reasons, I've decided to only go for U of A. I know it's not the best decision but I have a family that lives in Alberta so I don't want to go too far. I got a UBC interview invite a week ago but have declined it.

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So far I've just been making a list of sample questions, from interview lists or the **DELETED** website, and practicing writing my answers out for them or recording myself answering them. I'm not sure what the timing is like for the questions though, so I don't know how much detail to include. Anyone have any insights? 

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22 minutes ago, GivinPTaShot said:

So far I've just been making a list of sample questions, from interview lists or the **DELETED** website, and practicing writing my answers out for them or recording myself answering them. I'm not sure what the timing is like for the questions though, so I don't know how much detail to include. Anyone have any insights? 

what deleted website?

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1 hour ago, mjot said:

Hey looking for advice! This is my first grad school interview (it's @ UBC for OT) what do I wear?? I'm female. Full suit? Dress pants and blouse? Dress pants and blazer? Any thoughts helpful haha

I’m also trying to figure out what to wear! Not sure how formal to go. 

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35 minutes ago, Hopefullypositive said:

ptbound07 have you heard from UBC PT yet?

not yet, but the people who did receive invites had to confirm their attendance by the 21st so I think this week will be when people get the rest of the invites from the newly-available slots. Rejections will be sent out too. Im debating if I should call today since someone else from this forum already did and they told them that they'll hear within this week

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18 minutes ago, Sarah31 said:

I’m also trying to figure out what to wear! Not sure how formal to go. 

Ive never done an interview but I know girls who have and they wore dress pants or formal paper-bag pants with a nice blouse while some wore blazers. I guess wear what you'd wear to a job interview (A dress might be too formal but a skirt will be nice)

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6 hours ago, PTbound07 said:

not yet, but the people who did receive invites had to confirm their attendance by the 21st so I think this week will be when people get the rest of the invites from the newly-available slots. Rejections will be sent out too. Im debating if I should call today since someone else from this forum already did and they told them that they'll hear within this week

I just got an email from ubc 

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On 2/24/2020 at 8:50 AM, mjot said:

Hey looking for advice! This is my first grad school interview (it's @ UBC for OT) what do I wear?? I'm female. Full suit? Dress pants and blouse? Dress pants and blazer? Any thoughts helpful haha

I only went to the PT interview last year, but I would recommend semi-formal. I wore suit pants, a white dress shirt and dress shoes. There were some people in suits and other people in ties. I can't say that I noticed what them women were wearing, but I'm pretty sure dress pants and a blouse would be perfect. 

I approached it from the standpoint of what physios practice in - you're never going to work wearing formal wear, so going to the interview in that is probably not appropriate. With that being said I would say you should dress in whatever makes you feel good/sharp and if that is formal and it makes you feel confident then certainly that's ok!

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