Guest Paulchemguy Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 Just a question, do they start doing verification checks after the interview? Or has it already started? Cheers, Paulchemguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rhythm Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 I had a verifier contacted quite a long time ago (ie. in January). So, I think it's safe to assume that they've already started! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sudoku Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 last year, they continued to check even in April. So... i don't think they're done checking yet (provided that there're no major changes with the admission process). Good luck with the interview everyone. Sudoku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TBell Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Are all of the verifiers contacted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Persistent Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 No, not all are contacted. In general, just a random spot check...unless the interviewers made a special note for something to be verified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lurkergonepublic Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 I had a verifier contacted just recently. They seem rather pre-occupied about the way I entered some of my volunteer work. When you're just trying to summarize the fact that you do a whole lot of one time 'helping out with things' without collecting reference names and numbers everytime, it sure is hard to fit your life into the neat little boxes on that application form. It's perfetly designed to match the people who sign up for X number of hours a week at Y charity to 'make my app look good,' rather than people that just tend to be helpful wherever they go and with whatever is needed. Sigh, I guess that's just the game you gotta play to get in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest leviathan Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Sorry to hear your troubles, Lurker. I'm sorta in the same boat with my volunteer work. Thankfully for them, I can record every minute I spend doing work for them in all the various ways that I do help that usually would go unnoticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maple21 Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 I just had a verifier checked - he sent me an email to let me know that they were checking with him about hours. I had done way more hours then i counted on the app, since its a group of activities with an organization i've been involved with forever, and would have done regardless of applications. I know everyone says the verifier checks are random, but would they really go through the effort to check if people had really poor interviews? just a thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest loud noises Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Point taken, but I just thought I'd jump in with something on a related note, so as not to concern people in the other direction;) ...you can still be accepted into med school without anyone ever having done a verification check on your application. Just thought I'd relieve some nerves because I know I get stressed out easily about all of this as well.:rollin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TBell Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Or have a verifier contacted and not be offered admission:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UBCstu Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Yeah I was having the same thought as Maple21. Why else would they wait until after interviews to do the checks?Otherwise they shoulld have been checking since January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AnxiousBoy Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Here's another food for thought. Two years ago, the adcom contacted me a week before the interview notifications were going out saying that my MCAT score was missing and that I had to fax one in right away. My supervisors thought that this was a great sign because they believed that the adcom would not wait so long (over 3 months) to ask for a missing file if I didn't have a good shot in receiving an interview. Lone behold, I didn't get an interview and my score was over 8 points below the cut line :lol I hope this isn't the case this time around because I got contacted by adcom twice to provide alternate numbers to two of my activities so that they can verify the information within the last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GundamDX Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 hum... haven't heard from ANYONE (verifier/ referee) about getting a call from Med. I hope this doesn't mean anything. LOL Just got my reject letter from U of T today. Crazy stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paulchemguy Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Well, GundamDX, maybe your verifier simply thinks the call from Med is routine and therefore he/she didnt let you know. So don't worry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest supa76 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Ya, i wouldn't worry about it! A friend in med I this year doesn't know any of his classmates who had a verifier checked last year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest supa76 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 and sorry to hear about the UofT denial there Gundam... UBC it is then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lurkergonepublic Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Last year, post-interview, I had a reference contacted by UofA, (who said he gave me a glowing recommendation), but got rejected. No one reported being contacted by UofC, but I ended up on their waitlist. I think it really is a random check of a few files pulled by the administration office. It's possible they have no clue what your chances currently are either when they check. Unless they are worried about something in particular, the adcom might not even know what's been checked and what hasn't. Keep in mind that the administrative people who make all the calls and collect all your info are not on the evaluation committee themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest canstowski Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 Just to add to the speculation, two of my EC verifers were checked last year via a phone call. I'm in first year med now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest canmic Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 I spoke with someone who runs a big volunteer program and she told me that she got dozens of verification calls starting in early january and running until about may or so. She said that for the most part they seemed random to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest potential md Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 That's kind of a drag. I was getting my hopes up since one of my verifiers was contacted last week. I thought it meant that they hadn't chucked out my application yet. But now it seems that it just may be that the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing. How unfortunate. I guess we'll just have to wait til mid-may afterall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kupo Posted March 30, 2006 Report Share Posted March 30, 2006 i'll settle it. verification checks ARE random and are done throughout the application process (generally after the new year starts) haha, so stop speculating what it means wrt your % chance of getting in. Kupo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest canmic Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 It does mean they haven't chucked out your application yet.. if they had, you'd have gotten a call/email/etc saying that your application was incomplete or ineligible or whatever Of course, they likely still have over twice as many applications (maybe 5-10 times as many for OOP) that they haven't 'chucked out' as they have positions... I haven't heard of anyone getting a reference check after a rejection letter (they aren't THAT disorganized) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lurkergonepublic Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Same discussion in UofA forum, similar answers, worth a look: p090.ezboard.com/fpremed101frm77.showMessage?topicID=121.topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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