cutiepie Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 Will anyone be in chat on May 14th? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isosceles Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 LOL! Great minds... Hi, cutiepie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 Hi Isosceles... My nerves are really shot. Facebook, Premed forum, youtube is helping me cope though. I'm wondering if they'll send out emails for rejects and waitlisters as well. B/C being waitlisted at U of C isn't that bad. There's still a high chance you'd be admitted down the road. I'm sure U of Toronto's waitlist is really bad to be on because fewer people would give up that chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy0118 Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 I'm wondering if they'll send out emails for rejects and waitlisters as well. B/C being waitlisted at U of C isn't that bad. I emailed admissions a few days ago with the same question ... and got a reply saying that everyone will know the result one way or the other I didn't ask specifically whether there will be rejects or not ... but seems like they are putting everyone else that's not on the first batch into the waitlist ... oh well ... I really wanna know the result soon, whichever way it turns out to be ... and life goes on!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted April 28, 2007 Report Share Posted April 28, 2007 I don't like the "everyone who don't get 1st batch of acceptances get put on the waitlist." People at the bottom 1/3 of the waitlist don't really have that much of a chance if that were true. It's too stressful to wait all summer. However, wasn't the only time they put everyone else on the waitlist last year when they interviewed only 200 people (based on admissions for 100 students)? This year, they increased the number of people they interviewed by a lot so I think there will be rejects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy0118 Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 However, wasn't the only time they put everyone else on the waitlist last year when they interviewed only 200 people (based on admissions for 100 students)? This year, they increased the number of people they interviewed by a lot so I think there will be rejects. That's what I think too ... if I am down in the bottom 1/3 (out of the 300 this year), why not just tell me "sorry you are out". However, sometimes I do think that maybe it's not bad afterall to be on a "hopeless waitlist" - at least it feels better than a rejection. The wait could be torturous though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 I would rather be told I was rejected so I can make future plans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isosceles Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 I really, really hope that there are rejections. As crushed as I would be to receive one this year, it IS better than sitting on a futile waitlist - the waitlist IS tortorous: rejection is hard for a few days - weeks, but the waitlist will take over your life and make you extra-neurotic for a whole summer - I lost the summer of 2005 this way (waited for Queen's all summer long) and it was horrid. And, as long as there are rejections, being put on the waitlist still means something - if there aren't, then it's sort of no answer at all Gah, the wait is really getting hard this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isosceles Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 15!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcave Posted April 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 Yep. 15 indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 God, this feels like the longest 15 days of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redheadninja Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Hehe, almost two weeks. I don't know about you guys, but I plan on buying a cable for my xbox, to hook it up to the internets, and zoning out with thtat for the next 15 days. Hurrah video games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy0118 Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Hehe, almost two weeks. I don't know about you guys, but I plan on buying a cable for my xbox, to hook it up to the internets, and zoning out with thtat for the next 15 days. Hurrah video games! Oh ya ... i ordered a component cable and a modchip for my Wii ... some soldering to do and some serious game playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock* Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 2*7 days= 2 weeks left! I'm taking up this newfangled thing called exercise to distract me until that fateful day. It's been so long since I last stopped that I feel like a shrivelled prune in the gym :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Well, from what I know, previous year's waitlist carried around 125 people, regardless of the number of people interviewed. So, I think it will be: 100 outright acceptance 125 waitlist 100 reject This is strictly for IP OOP waitlists were usually around 50-60 people with 15 getting acceptances on May 15th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isosceles Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 So, I think it will be: 100 outright acceptance 125 waitlist 100 reject 106 outright acceptances!! (com'on... with any luck we may be sitting in that #100-106 range! LOL) 13 days guys! I'm am so completely losing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcave Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 arrggh!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I wouldn't mind being on the waitlist if I got called off it eventually. I mean, experiences like that only adds more color to your life. Stresses give life meaning. However, I read on another thread that most interviewees fall in the middle. There's like a few "shoo-ins" who ace their interview, there's a few "immediate rejects" who bomb their interviews (like swearing, chewing gum, etc...) Everyone else is somewhere in between, some are good, some are average. So, I think it's going to come down to like 0.5 points or 1 or 2 points or so. Remember some people missed the interview cutoff by like 0.1 or 0.5 points. It would be awful to get rejected because of the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy0118 Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Remember some people missed the interview cutoff by like 0.1 or 0.5 points. It would be awful to get rejected because of the same thing. That's exactly what I've been wondering about too ... what the distribution of interview score is like. If the s.d. is small and everyone is 0.0001 points from each other, then it's just like another lucky draw. I really wish there is some true granularity in the scoring that tells the "better" (or more suitable) candidate apart from the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutiepie Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I have a feeling May 14th and May 15th will be a sleepless, sleepless night across the country for many students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drcave Posted May 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I don't think I'll even bother going to bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PD84 Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 i know!!!!!! then i'll go to work all sleepy and red-eyed....from the tears...AND lack of sleep...because either way i'll cry ..lol...*fingers crossed for tears of joy* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redheadninja Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 12 Days!!!! The video games are making this go much faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock* Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 12 Days!!!! The video games are making this go much faster! of course, constantly checking and posting on this forum does not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathcliff Posted May 2, 2007 Report Share Posted May 2, 2007 the worst thing about this wait for me is my DIAL-UP INTERNET ACCESS. I can't even allay my stresses by checking things online (i.e. this forum, my inbox for the minute chance of an early surprise, the weather) because connecting just involves.......more........w.........a..........i.........t......i.....*disconnect: redial in 60....59.....58.....57......*etc you get the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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