Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 hi: Does anyone else remember reading something about a gpa bonus for grad students? I thought I saw a 0.2 bonus for grad students, but I can't remember where I read that. If anyone else has seen this and can let me know that would be very helpful. thanx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest medeng Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 do you mean pre or post interview? pre-interview I believe you are compared to the other grad applicants, they don't really say what the formula is (ie weight of research productivity vs. sketch vs. GPA) post-interview I'm not sure what happens... but I would like to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 for some reason I'm thinking it was post-interview. i wish i remember where i saw this - hopefully someone out there might know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest satsumargirl Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Hey, As far as I know there is no GPA bonus for grads. Grads and undergrads go through the same wGPA process. If grads meet the GPA cut-off they go to the next step along with the undergrads (thankfully this is what happened to me and I didn't have to go through the grad package part!) If they do not meet the GPA cut-off their files go to a grad review committee and they are compared to other grads (for productivity etc.) and are selected to interview from there. What the specific criteria is and how/if they adjust you mark from there I do not know, but it would only help you get an interview. Once in the interview, however, nothing else matters really except the interview score. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest QuestionMan23213 Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Im pretty sure that GPA bonus thing was from NOMS's website. I remember reading that also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest medeng Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Thankfully I got through the undergrad screening too (I'm from Ottawa). Where the GPA comes in again is if you are in the interview score group (ie the score out of 4, in .25 increments) then they rank you by GPA... I'm not sure what happens to grad GPAs here... I also worry a bit that I'll be in trouble here, as my GPA is not as high as the Ontario or OOP people... Just have to hope that I'm above the breakpoint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttryit Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Hey medeng, are you in english or engineering? tt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 possible I could have been thinking of another school - or maybe old rules! thanx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest g22g Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 For those graduate subcommittee applicants the WGPA is modified by dividing your undergraduate WGPA by 2 and then adding 2 to that score. This was more effective boast when they accepted undergraduate WGPA's at 3.3 but they have raised the minimum to 3.5 in the last year or so. Anyway pretending you had a 3.6 WGPA you would divide that by 2 to get 1.8 and then you would add 2 for an adjusted weighted graduate point average of 3.8. Hope this helps, g22g edited: the formula was not published in the guide after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Talon01 Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 g22g I was hoping you'd be able to answer this question for me. Currently I'm technically a graduate student (Physical Therapy @ UWO), however, my program is more of an academic grad program in the sense research isn't my primary focus. Would I still be considered a graduate application and would the above 'formula' apply to my undergraduate GPA (3.85)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest g22g Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 Hi Talon, If you have been given subcommittee status and submitted a proof of productivity packet then and only then do you receive the bonus. The bonus was intended to level out the WGPA modifier because by being in the subcommittee you inherently have a low undergraduate WGPA but have done so well academically (A average) in your graduate work. Hope this helps, g22g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Talon01 Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 Thanks 8o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 awesome! I knew I had seen the number 2 somewhere! Does this bonus happen post-interview? thanks g22g! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shudvbeenafarmer Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Hey all, At the info session at the interviews on Thursday, they explained that yes, there is a different weighting scale for grad students. As mentioned in the above post: WGPA/2 + 2 = GPA for grad students Cheers, Farmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wattyjl Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 just to add and hopefully clarify: the bonus (as mentioned above - wGPA/2+2) applies to people considered in graduate subcommittee pool (had to send in extra grad-studies info), and applies for your post-interview gpa calculation. we were told that the way students were ranked post-interview (to determine who gets an offer of admission) is that the interview score (out of 4, with decrements of .25) is rated with highest priority, and gpa second. so, all individuals with a perfect 4.0 interview score would then be ranked by order of wGPA. grad students get that special formula to compensate for their required A average during gradschool. this way, undergrads and grads are compared mono-et-mono post-interview. so after all the 4.0's are ranked by gpa, then they go to the 3.75's, rank further by gpa, the 3.5's, rank further by gpa, etc., til they get to 133 (or, i guess 91 for the english program), and then they send out those offers. so basically, if you killed the interview, your gpa is irrelevant and you'll get an offer. hope that's clear. edit: oops - this was just discussed in another thread. though i find it odd that the info we were given by the admin office on interview day doesn't quite seem to be the same as what g22g is reporting. oh well, since we won't know our scores i guess it doesn't really matter anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 hi: is this a secret process for the selection system (ie, the 4.0, 3.75, 3.50, etc...) that someone heard through a friend or was that described at the info session? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest avarrin2001 Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 "is this a secret process for the selection system (ie, the 4.0, 3.75, 3.50, etc...) that someone heard through a friend or was that described at the info session? " - We were told by Nicole Racine on the day of the interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 19, 2005 Report Share Posted April 19, 2005 thanx! did she say anything about how many people end up usually getting each score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wattyjl Posted April 20, 2005 Report Share Posted April 20, 2005 did she say anything about how many people end up usually getting each score? no - not at the info session i attended anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 does anyone know what the undergrad gpa invite cut-off was? (for out-of-ottawa region people) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 0T6 Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 hey, i heard it was 3.83. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest okaycomeonnow Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 any know if ottawa gives a bonus to ottawa-area people? how would people with a 3.6 be competitive if they didn't have a really good interview? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wattyjl Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 i think the point is: nobody is competetive unless they give a good interview (/receive a good interview score). 4.0 or 3.0 gpa, doesn't really matter, since interview score is how everyone is initially stratified. gpa matters if your interview score is around the cutoff area, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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