Post Interview Selection process (aka 'Just Obsessing')

[Guest Chieka101]

Just wondering how extra-curricular activities and graduate degrees factor into UWO's selection process.

 

I know UWO puts an emphasis on well-rounded students; how do they consider non-science extra-curricular activity in determining who to accept after interviews have been conducted?

 

Likewise, how are non-science graduate degrees considered? I know UWO doesn't look at graduate GPA, but would someone be looked upon favourably for having a degree in the humanities? Is this further proof of "well-roundedness", or does it make little difference?

 

Are these non-academic (as in GPA) and non-academic factors considered in the interview part 25%/25%/50% breakdown?

 

Thanks,

 

C.

[Guest UWOMED2005]

Exactly - they're considered in the interview part of the 50/25/25 split.

 

Cheers & good luck.

[Guest aneliz]

Exactly. All of your extra-curriculars, grad degrees, volunteer work, work experience, personal skills, hobbies, interests and well-roundedness are part of your interview mark....which means that you need to present all of these aspects of your character at the interview...

 

Your interviewers DO NOT have any information on you beyond your name. They have not read your autobiographical info, transcripts, reference letters, etc...they don't know your academic history, your GPA, your extra-currics or anything else....it is up to YOU to bring up these things as part of your interview. If you don't talk about them, they won't know about them. And seeing as UWO doesn't have a mark for your autobiographical sketch or an essay or anything else, your well roundedness is determined exclusively by how you perform in your interview. Quite a challenge!

 

As for if any of the things that you mentioned give you an advantage or reflect favourably on you...of course they do - if you know how to present them to your interviewers and can demonstrate that YOU know how they have benefited you and the kinds of things that you learned because of doing them....ie how they made you a better person....other then that, there are no 'bonus points' for any specific job, activity or degree. It is up to you to prove to the interviewers that you know what you have done, why you did it, what you learned from it and how this is valuable to your chosen career....and of course to do this all with humility and demonstrate that you have a personality too!

 

Good luck!

[Guest Chieka101]

Thanks so much for that info, Aneliz. I had no idea that's how the process works. Note to self: must start practicing showing off, while being humble....

 

C.