May 12 Countdown Thread 2020

[theinbetween 38]

1 hour ago, BSLM13 said:

Also in the same boat... definitely cringing at my uottawa interview the most though, because I know I didn't answer things the way I wanted to... and was super distracted by what they were circling the entire time lol. 

Saaaame. Same. I get random flashes of Ottawa's interview in my head. I'd be doing dishes and boom i get a flash and I start to cringe. I legit have to have Netflix or music playing in my ears constantly so I don't have those silent moments.

[James Nystead 252]

10 minutes ago, MDLD said:

Just wondering, what do you think Mac will do next year. Since there is a high good chance Covid won't be 100% resolved and that large groups of people as well as travel will be restricted. 

 

Like if would they do the lottery system again or add a component now or do an online interview.

And if they do an online interview then like why not have done it this year. 

Online interiew

Not enough time to coordinate

[RawRxD 7]

6 minutes ago, theinbetween said:

Saaaame. Same. I get random flashes of Ottawa's interview in my head. I'd be doing dishes and boom i get a flash and I start to cringe. I legit have to have Netflix or music playing in my ears constantly so I don't have those silent moments.

me @ my UofT interview lmmaooooooo thinking about the absolute drivel I was spewing into my camera for 5 minutes makes me cringe 

[apricotsun 1]

NOSM had an online version of an MMI. Surprised McMaster didn’t. 

[MDLD 154]

Just now, William Osler said:

Online interiew

Not enough time to coordinate

other schools were able move it to online and some even did it in the later half of april so I think if they really wanted to time was not an issue. 

[James Nystead 252]

Just now, MDLD said:

other schools were able move it to online and some even did it in the later half of april so I think if they really wanted to time was not an issue. 

Maybe lack of effort I guess - do any other schools do a full 2 hour 10 station MMI like Mac does for 550 applicants tho

[theinbetween 38]

3 minutes ago, GooGooGaGa said:

me @ my UofT interview lmmaooooooo thinking about the absolute drivel I was spewing into my camera for 5 minutes makes me cringe 

Oh God and I'm assuming you have those videos on your laptop, too? I hope you didnt rewatch them. But I know I would.. no self control with this stuff 

[SnowmanTheSWOMEN 156]

1 minute ago, theinbetween said:

Oh God and I'm assuming you have those videos on your laptop, too? I hope you didnt rewatch them. But I know I would.. no self control with this stuff 

Nah we were supposed to delete them 3 weeks after the interview

[SnowmanTheSWOMEN 156]

Unless... y'all broke the rule 

[RawRxD 7]

3 minutes ago, theinbetween said:

Oh God and I'm assuming you have those videos on your laptop, too? I hope you didnt rewatch them. But I know I would.. no self control with this stuff 

I couldnt bring myself to watch it once lmao straight to the trash where they (and I) belong 

[Furosemide 17]

Is the word "button" losing meaning for anyone else? I've read it so many times today that it sounds made up at this point

[SnowmanTheSWOMEN 156]

Just now, Furosemide said:

Is the word "button" losing meaning for anyone else? I've read it so many times today that it sounds made up at this point

What's a button?

[mdhopeful26 9]

11 minutes ago, William Osler said:

Maybe lack of effort I guess - do any other schools do a full 2 hour 10 station MMI like Mac does for 550 applicants tho

Can confirm - NOSM has 10 MMI stations...not 550 interviewees though, but 320ish. Also, only half of the interviews went online, the other half were completed before COVID ramped up

[theinbetween 38]

Just now, GooGooGaGa said:

I couldnt bring myself to watch it once lmao straight to the trash where they (and I) belong 

Hahaha. You know whats weird. I don't have the most vivid memory but for some reason I can remember every single thing that I did wrong aka the entire thing at my interview. I feel like Raven from That's So Raven when she gets those flashes. I bet my face looks so odd at the grocery store wearing my mask and randomly I get a flashback on my horrid answers and my terrible handshake while starring for a solid 60 seconds at the tomatoes I'm reaching for

[tennie 43]

27 minutes ago, theinbetween said:

Hahaha. You know whats weird. I don't have the most vivid memory but for some reason I can remember every single thing that I did wrong aka the entire thing at my interview. I feel like Raven from That's So Raven when she gets those flashes. I bet my face looks so odd at the grocery store wearing my mask and randomly I get a flashback on my horrid answers and my terrible handshake while starring for a solid 60 seconds at the tomatoes I'm reaching for

ME TOOOOO my interview answers haunt me every day...... why can't i remember stuff this well for exams

[Psych 176]

10 minutes ago, tennie said:

ME TOOOOO my interview answers haunt me every day...... why can't i remember stuff this well for exams

I've just been blocking mine out (probably for the best hahaha)- whenever I start to think about my interview answers I just stop that idea in its tracks

[BSLM13 10]

Someone's put up the entire email that all Mac interviewees received on the "Spotted at Mac" page on fb... 

 

[mdhopefullyidk 16]

4 minutes ago, BSLM13 said:

Someone's put up the entire email that all Mac interviewees received on the "Spotted at Mac" page on fb... 

 

It’s on the Mac admissions website

[BSLM13 10]

1 minute ago, mdhopefullyidk said:

It’s on the Mac admissions website

Ahh, just saw that!

[James Nystead 252]

It's also on r/premedcanada

[SnowmanTheSWOMEN 156]

So... how is this lottery system going to work?

1) They could numerically assign you from 101-452 and cut the waitlist off at roughly ~330 people. This means that your waitlist rank is also randomly generated meaning you could very well be at the bottom of the waitlist despite a high pre-interview score

OR

2) Random assignment to one of the 3 bins--accepted, rejected, waitlisted, (with higher weight to the waitlist bin). And then a waitlist rank is assigned based on pre-interview score

[SoftTings 79]

1 minute ago, HeyMrSnowman said:

So... how is this lottery system going to work?

1) They could numerically assign you from 101-452 and cut the waitlist off at roughly ~330 people. This means that your waitlist rank is also randomly generated meaning you could very well be at the bottom of the waitlist despite a high pre-interview score

OR

2) Random assignment to one of the 3 bins--accepted, rejected, waitlisted, (with higher weight to the waitlist bin). And then a waitlist rank is assigned based on pre-interview score

In my opinion, it doesn't make sense to rank people within the waitlist after outright rejecting people via the lottery. I think waitlist position will likely be random as well

[SnowmanTheSWOMEN 156]

Just now, SoftTings said:

In my opinion, it doesn't make sense to rank people within the waitlist after outright rejecting people via the lottery. I think waitlist position will likely be random as well

So people who are not top 100 are under no circumstances given a chance to be evaluated based on merit? I thought waitlist would be everyone's saving grace lmao 

[JohnGrisham 1,755]

Just now, HeyMrSnowman said:

So people who are not top 100 are under no circumstances given a chance to be evaluated based on merit? I thought waitlist would be everyone's saving grace lmao 

They were already evaluated on merit by getting to the top 500 and being considered for the lottery.

[James Nystead 252]

6 minutes ago, HeyMrSnowman said:

So... how is this lottery system going to work?

1) They could numerically assign you from 101-452 and cut the waitlist off at roughly ~330 people. This means that your waitlist rank is also randomly generated meaning you could very well be at the bottom of the waitlist despite a high pre-interview score

OR

2) Random assignment to one of the 3 bins--accepted, rejected, waitlisted, (with higher weight to the waitlist bin). And then a waitlist rank is assigned based on pre-interview score

Seems like a good question for Wendy!