bwbl Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hi, So I checked MINERVA today and instead of saying "Ready for Review" under my status, it changed to "Reviewed - Decision Pending". I'm an OOP applicant who never got an interview invite. I was wondering if other OOP applicants who weren't invited for an interview also have this in their MINERVA account. Does this mean they will be sending out official rejection letters out soon since the OOP interviews are this Friday and next Monday? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopingforluck Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hi, So I checked MINERVA today and instead of saying "Ready for Review" under my status, it changed to "Reviewed - Decision Pending". I'm an OOP applicant who never got an interview invite. I was wondering if other OOP applicants who weren't invited for an interview also have this in their MINERVA account. Does this mean they will be sending out official rejection letters out soon since the OOP interviews are this Friday and next Monday? Thanks! I never got an invite and mine still says "ready for review." Maybe they will offer you an interview! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryn Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Mine also says decision pending. I am also an OOP who never got an invite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryn Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 good luck kenneth. I'm living through you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryn Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 This is what it says in the help window Reviewed - decision pending A decision cannot be made on your file at this time. I guess this translates to "we looked at your stuff. we aren't officially rejecting you yet, so we'll see." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopingforluck Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 so what does "ready for review" mean? that they haven't looked at my application yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridiculato Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Mine also says decision pending. I am also an OOP who never got an invite. That makes three of us then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master_splinter Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 The phrasing on Minerva is frustrating. Direct word from the admissions office is what counts. The reason why folks who didn't get interviews haven't heard anything official about a rejection yet is probably for the unlikely event that the interviewed candidates don't fill up the available spots (ie choose other schools, deemed unsuitable). This happened several years ago for the in-province cohort and the school had to go back and re-invite applicants they'd already rejected for interviews and then acceptance. Exceedingly unlikely to happen with the OOP group, and possibly not the real reason (could just be shortage of time), but I wouldn't be surprised if this is why Minerva hasn't changed yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss_sunshine Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Good luck with the waiting... Last year the decision came up on minerva at 12:01 AM on the day they had told us the decisions would be released (I was IP) If you have any questions about McGill med, i'd be happy to answer them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clkt Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 has anyone seen the stats for last year? For the past few years, ~30 people reject McGill's admission offer. Last year, it was ~80 people! Any ideas why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temp_degoo Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Did you get this info from the "Admission Requirements for the Canadian Faculties of Medicine" booklet? Its quite confusing, and they have their stats on McGill kind As Trustwomen pointed out, they sandwich all McGill students (from Med-P and from MDCM) in the MDCM table (total of 172, although only ~72 are for MDCM directly, rest are Med-P). So I don't know what that figure really refers to. Nonetheless, compared to prior years it is really high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss_sunshine Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 That number is really high because of the Med-P's. Most of the people who apply to med-p apply to all 4 quebec medical schools and a large proportion of them are francophone and first choice medical school is a french university (a lot of them apply to mcgill as a backup). therefore that waitlist moves ALOT and accounts for the high number reported. The OOP province waitlist does move but it seems like most of the movement occurs only in the summer once the ontario schools come out with their desicions and their waitlists start moving. The OOP wait list moves much more than the IP one does so if you are in the first 10 on that waitlist, i think you have a good chance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clkt Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 interesting... but why the spike in declined offers last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss_sunshine Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 i think because some of the french schools increased their class size (some of them, like u de sherbrooke, opened up new campuses). so maybe that's why more people declined mcgill's offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roboboy69 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hi miss_sunshine, I sent you a PM. Thanks, RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temp_degoo Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 If the IP interviews start March 12 (according to their website), when abouts will the invitations come out. When did they go out last year? I'm an IP (but live in Ontario) so require more time to plan my trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss_sunshine Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 l just looked through my email inbox and I received my invite last year on the 27th of February at 8 pm (my interview was on march 13th). so they definately will be coming out soon. Don't worry if you don't get one at the same time as other people do... A couple of my friends only received invites later on (like the next week...). Hope that helped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABMONKEY Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Yup I can confirm that, they sent mine out last year on Feb 27th for an interview on March 16th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temp_degoo Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Thanks for those dates. I noticed on Minerva my status has changed from ready for review to "Further Review Required" The description of this is: Further Review Required: We were unable to make an admissions decision when your file was first reviewed. Once the missing documentation is received your file will be reviewed again. But I also noticed that Kenneth's status also changed to the same thing: I'm OOP interviewing in two days. It says my current status as: Decision: Further Review Required I'm IP btw. So Kenneth, did you have to give anything else in before your offer to interview came, or was that the status when you got your interview invite? Btw, I think most people are finding these descriptions annoying because they are intended mostly for high schoolers applying to McGill, or so it seems. EDIT: I think the "missing documentation" they refer to implies the interview itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterflies85 Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Hey, I interviewed at McGill (OOP) this year and mine says "further review required". That's what it said just before the interview too. Hope that helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustwomen Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 interesting... but why the spike in declined offers last year? Because there were 70 more applicants than usual last year. I am guessing that many of them were Ontarians who were born in Quebec, and who applied to McGill in-province as a "backup" in case they didn't get into their chosen Ontario school. Good luck to you all. McGill is a great school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temp_degoo Posted February 23, 2007 Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 Heh, McGill as a backup. Just doesn't sound right to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temp_degoo Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 For the IPs that got interviews: Did you receive any confirmations or anything? I filled out that online stuff, and send in those photo IDs but didn't get any replies. Is there a place where we can make sure we are confirmed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tired_of_waiting Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 i was thinking the same thing, did you get any auto reply email saying they received an email from you, a friend of mine did but i didnt so i called friday but they were closed cuz of the snow so i sent an email to make sure they received my photo id. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
co_b Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 I didn't receive any confirmation either.. so I was worried about it... I went to the admission's office and spoke to the secretary to make sure she got my email with the photo IDs.... and she did. Did any of you receive the exact times of your interviews? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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