Interview UAlberta but not Calgary?

[PleasePleasePlease]

I am just wondering if there are many people who get interviews at UAlberta but didn't get one in Calgary.  Even though Calgary says it is transparent, I really have no idea what they might be looking for since I thought I would have had everything they were looking for.  Does Alberta tend to look at the same things?

 

[regretful spoon]

I had an interview at UAlberta but not Calgary last year. Calgary seems a bit more variable with how much weight is on the personal essays. I have friends who didn’t interview there 1 year but got really high preinterview scores the year after but take is just my perception by no means do I know specifics. 

[MedicineLCS]

Definitely possible, but I'm not entirely sure of the numbers.  I've definitely heard anecdotal stories of one interview at either school. The UofA is one of the least transparent schools on how they assess. The UofA looks at your whole MCAT, CASPer, and may be looking for different things than Calgary that could all add up to a different scenario. 

[justdoingmybest]

I know multiple people who have got an Alberta one without Calgary, or vice versa. Several of these people were also accepted after only receiving one invite. And I don't know many people in med school as I'm a non-trad, so the fact that this has happened to the majority of people that I do know tells me this happens to a lot of people. Think they likely have fairly different things they look for, which when you think about it is a good thing as we get more variety in the Alberta medical field.

Also don't get too down on not getting Calgary (I also didn't this year). A friend of mine scored really low in his first app to Calgary and then got an interview this year. It's a subjective process w/ a bit of luck involved and sometimes is more a reflection of the evaluation process' flaws than the quality of your app.

 

[Medddddd]

I had three friends apply for school one year, all three applied to both schools, one of them got an interview only at UofC and got in, the other only interviewed at UofA and got in, and the last interviewed at both and got into UofC and waitlisted at UofA. So anything is possible haha

[coffeeandmed]

Just from personal experience, I was rejected from Calgary but received an invite to Edmonton this year. The whole process is a bit mysterious and there is definitely some luck involved!! 

[bruh]

As echoed in the previous posts, UofC and UofA evaluate apps very differently. As a result, many people end up receiving an interview to one instead of the other, and this changes year to year.

 

As or myself, I got an interview to UofC in 2018 with 90th percentile in most categories. In 2019 I didn’t receive an interview and scored around the 50th percentile. This year I didn’t receive an invite from UofC but I did get one from UofA (first time applying to UofA). 

[chxiel]

I also ended up an interview at Alberta but not Calgary - I'm assuming it's probably the CASPer that played a role in my case as GPA/MCAT would be quite similar