RKR13 Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 Hope everyone's staying healthy during all of this! I haven't been able to find the answer to this on any of the program websites. I interviewed at UOttawa this cycle and I'm being considered for whatever it is McMaster is doing to select people without the interview. I applied to a masters in Epidemiology at UOttawa as well for September in case I don't get in and was just recently accepted into it. The deadline to respond to the offer is April 14th. I'd be in the research paper stream and I wouldn't need to get a confirmed supervisor until after the med school decisions have come out and I know for sure if I'd be doing a masters or not - just so I'm not leading on any supervisors or anything like that. I'm emailing the program to see if the deadline can be extended though I'm pretty doubtful, they mentioned in the email there is a waitlist for acceptance so I don't see them letting me take an extra month to get back to them. I was wondering if accepting a graduate school offer would take me out of consideration for the medical school programs? I might just be over thinking it because I'm not sure how they'd exactly find out (aside from the fact that this program also operates out of UOttawa's medical school), but I wanted to see if anybody else has been in this situation or knows how it is typically handled.Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambi Posted April 6, 2020 Report Share Posted April 6, 2020 I would have thought that the U/O computer system would spit out the fact that your accepted another program, and if I am correct (I have no idea really), you would no longer be considered for med school this cycle. Of course, I may be totally wrong. I can see that it would be somewhat of a gamble and that if you accept for the Masters, then we’re to go to med school, there would be no harm done to anybody else as so,done would take hour spot. I understand the issue - would you be harming yourself by accepting. Flip a coin. I wish I could shed light on this for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearded frog Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 dunno about ottawa, but accepting the masters would not take you out of contention for mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicineLCS Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 To add to the chorus, I faced this issue with another program at two other Universities (not UOttawa) and specifically asked them. They were very clear that admission to different programs at their university are independent and I could apply to both Medicine and the other program (which I am retaining as a backup) and decide in May which program to go with. It definitely didn't affect getting an interview. According to the one school, Medicine couldn't even see that I applied to this other program although I'm not sure if that's true everywhere. It may be somewhat different with both programs being within Medicine, but I can't see other schools being stingy. People need backups, and in the end, if you get in (net positive for you), you forfeit the deposit (a net positive for the school) and someone else gets the seat (a net positive for them). It's a win-win-win with only some admin frustration involved. People drop out of grad programs between offer and starting, programs plan for it. Now if you strung along a potential supervisor that would be more annoying and I would imagine more frowned upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKR13 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Thanks everyone for your responses! I contacted UO and they said that accepting a graduate school offer will still allow you to be considered for their medical school. Hope if anyone else is in the same boat this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhappyMD Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 Does anyone know if accepting a graduate school offer will take one out of consideration for UofT med school? (grad program not at UofT) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeNerd Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 You might need to drop out of grad school if you want to take up ur offer. Not sure, but since you werent in grad school during the application cycle, i dont really think it would affect your offer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hehe123 Posted May 11, 2020 Report Share Posted May 11, 2020 1 hour ago, applicant4748290987 said: Does anyone know if accepting a graduate school offer will take one out of consideration for UofT med school? (grad program not at UofT) prob because you only accepted and haven't started, you will be able to drop out. However, you'll probably lose your deposit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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