CRC?

[Guest lololau]

Hey everyone! I'm a Montreal high school student and I will be going to Cegep in about 2 years. I know that schools look at your R score, and my question is...how do schools calculate the CRC? and what is the maximum R score you can get or what is the average of what people get?

And just one more question, I have heard all about the four year med-P program at McGill, and I was just wondering, how hard is it to get into it?

 

Thanks

 

lololau

[Guest doctor wanabee]

Hey lololau,

 

calculating the R CODE is very complicated: first your grades are compared to your class average, then compares your class average and the strength of the people in your class to the rest of the students in the province.

 

One simple example, I went to one of the top ranked CEGEPs, I managed to get 80%, but my CRC was only 30-ish. My CRC was somewhat low in order to get in any quebec med school. For example, Mcgill wants you to have 35 of CRC in order to consider your application, UdeMtl, USherbrooke, ULaval want you to have 34-ish and maybe a bit higher to get invited for an interview.

 

I hope this helps.

 

And if you really want to understand the CRC, check out this website, it explains EVERYTHING on it, unfortunately, it's only in french.

 

crepuq.qc.ca/documents/adm/CRC_long.htm

[Guest lololau]

Thanks so much!

[Guest medicator007]

Hey,

 

I can't add any more to what has already been said about the CRC, mostly because I did CEGEP in the days before CRC was used (granted, not ALL that long ago) but from what i've heard the description above is more or less correct.

 

My comment is really as follows:

 

You are in high school now, and rather than worry about the minutiae of medical school admissions you'd be best served to focus on your academics to do the best possible and at the same time, get involved in some extra-curriculars to see if a career in medicine is indeed what you are interested in. Not to dissuade you or put your hopes down, but I remember plenty of my old classmates in high school who were dead set on becoming physicians and only later on did they actually realize that it wasn't at all what they were interested in... I would thus, strongly encourage you and anyone else in your position to volunteer in health and related domains to see if this really is what you're interested in.

 

Oh, and on another level.... Med-P is 5 not four years.