yeescience Posted September 15, 2020 Report Share Posted September 15, 2020 Hey All, I'm having some difficulty inputting my second undergraduate degree in my OMSAS academic background. I started a second undergrad degree this Sept as a third year student in a 4-year honours program. Technically speaking, the end date of my 4-year honours program is on 2022-04. However, I haven't decided yet if I will complete the fourth year yet (I'm just doing this to boost my GPA) cause I may decide to graduate with a 3-year BSc non-honours instead, which should not be a problem. I am just wondering how other applicants with a second undergrad degree and/or third year applicants from a 4-year honours program filled out this section? Thanks! Below are the sections confusing me: Start Date: pretty straight forward, 2020-09 End Date: does not let me input a date past 2021 so I couldn't put the end date if I were to complete 4 years (2022-04) so I put down the date as if I were to complete 3 years only (2021-04) Type of degree***: 3 year or 4 year?? I want to put 4-year since this is technically what shows up on my transcript (Honours Biology) but I am afraid that this would be confusing in terms of my start/end dates? Any suggestions? Degree (Confer) Date Expected: 2021-06 or 2022-06? Like above, I am unsure whether to include this date as if I would be completing the 4-year honours degree or if I end up transferring to a 3-year BSc non-honours version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych Posted September 15, 2020 Report Share Posted September 15, 2020 3 hours ago, yeescience said: Hey All, I'm having some difficulty inputting my second undergraduate degree in my OMSAS academic background. I started a second undergrad degree this Sept as a third year student in a 4-year honours program. Technically speaking, the end date of my 4-year honours program is on 2022-04. However, I haven't decided yet if I will complete the fourth year yet (I'm just doing this to boost my GPA) cause I may decide to graduate with a 3-year BSc non-honours instead, which should not be a problem. I am just wondering how other applicants with a second undergrad degree and/or third year applicants from a 4-year honours program filled out this section? Thanks! Below are the sections confusing me: Start Date: pretty straight forward, 2020-09 End Date: does not let me input a date past 2021 so I couldn't put the end date if I were to complete 4 years (2022-04) so I put down the date as if I were to complete 3 years only (2021-04) Type of degree***: 3 year or 4 year?? I want to put 4-year since this is technically what shows up on my transcript (Honours Biology) but I am afraid that this would be confusing in terms of my start/end dates? Any suggestions? Degree (Confer) Date Expected: 2021-06 or 2022-06? Like above, I am unsure whether to include this date as if I would be completing the 4-year honours degree or if I end up transferring to a 3-year BSc non-honours version? I had a similar problem when I applied out of third year! I emailed OMSAS and basically they only let you put the end date to 2021 because you're applying with the assumption that you're going to get into med school, but I would definitely still put that it's a four year honours program. This shouldn't be a problem at all, and is exactly what I did, and I also changed and graduated with a 3 year BSc once I got in yeescience 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeescience Posted September 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2020 On 9/15/2020 at 5:57 PM, Psych said: I had a similar problem when I applied out of third year! I emailed OMSAS and basically they only let you put the end date to 2021 because you're applying with the assumption that you're going to get into med school, but I would definitely still put that it's a four year honours program. This shouldn't be a problem at all, and is exactly what I did, and I also changed and graduated with a 3 year BSc once I got in Thank you for your response! If you ended up putting down a 4-year degree, how did you fill out the next two final questions by any chance? Any further guidance would be very much appreciated. Degree Status: Expected or non-expected Degree Date: *this is required if put "expected" in degree status* but it says to provide date if it is expected at the end of the current academic year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych Posted September 24, 2020 Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 6 hours ago, yeescience said: Thank you for your response! If you ended up putting down a 4-year degree, how did you fill out the next two final questions by any chance? Any further guidance would be very much appreciated. Degree Status: Expected or non-expected Degree Date: *this is required if put "expected" in degree status* but it says to provide date if it is expected at the end of the current academic year I'm not 100% sure but I think I said "not-expected", and I think if you click the little information arrows on the application it tells you what to do for that part! I could be wrong but that's what I remember at least yeescience 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeescience Posted September 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2020 15 hours ago, Psych said: I'm not 100% sure but I think I said "not-expected", and I think if you click the little information arrows on the application it tells you what to do for that part! I could be wrong but that's what I remember at least Thank you!! Psych 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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