Jochi1543 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Ties, belts, and shoes. I'm all for the accessories - it shows whether a guy pays attention to details (and whether he has taste). Nothing. It's nothing for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clive Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Are third year level courses considered equivalent to fourth year level courses? (since 3/5 of the courses have to correspond to your current year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeDoc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Are third year level courses considered equivalent to fourth year level courses? Are we talking at UWO? Well if we are: 001-099 is first year 0100-0199 is General 2nd year and 0200-0299 is 3rd year honours 0300-0499 is 4th year honours It goes something like that...I could be wrong, I haven't been keeping up on it. Check out the undergraduate academic calendar where it says course codes I believe, or something or other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 hahaha, yeah i see where you're coming from, but my example was to illustrate a point about the validity of the presumed weighting and not to argue about .1 of a gpa score... reading over my posts, they do seem excessively anal though... ugh... i'll blame it on the nasty cloudy weather outside... and the fact that i should be writing papers and am looking for excuses not to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeDoc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 hahaha, yeah i see where you're coming from, but my example was to illustrate a point about the validity of the presumed weighting and not to argue about .1 of a gpa score... reading over my posts, they do seem excessively anal though... ugh... i'll blame it on the nasty cloudy weather outside... and the fact that i should be writing papers and am looking for excuses not to There is nothing like procrastination. It's a great thing. Until you realize that you're screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 There is nothing like procrastination. It's a great thing. Until you realize that you're screwed. never happened to me i swear!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeDoc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 never happened to me i swear!! Ahaha, it's alright! There's nothing like that last minute pressure to do well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 ...but maybe only your best year is ranked for all applicants ...but maybe the tenth of a grade point difference in your example doesn't really make much difference in UWO's ranking formula ...but maybe if my mother had wheels, she'd be a bus Look, I realize that applying for meds is stressful. Been there, done that. Since we're all bright, analytic people, it's tempting to obsess over the smallest aspects of the admission process. Venting is also useful as a cathartic way to blow off some steam. But here's a word of advice: Thinking up hypothetical situations where you could potentially be screwed over by the med school application process isn't a high-yield use of your time. It's spring. The grass is growing. Flowers are blooming. The days are getting warmer and longer. Girls are wearing skirts. Guys are wearing...err...whatever it is that guys wear that girls find attractive. Get out there. Enjoy. Focus on the things that you can change, and don't fixate on things that are out of your hands. pb LOL, post of the week award goes to... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeDoc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 LOL, post of the week award goes to... Where have you been Law? Busy studying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Where have you been Law? Busy studying? kinda, and been pretty busy with some other exciting things in my not-so-exciting life haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeDoc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 kinda, and been pretty busy with some other exciting things in my not-so-exciting life haha Oh don't joke, we all know your life is pretty exciting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excalibre Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Are we talking at UWO?Well if we are: 001-099 is first year 0100-0199 is General 2nd year and 0200-0299 is 3rd year honours 0300-0499 is 4th year honours It goes something like that...I could be wrong, I haven't been keeping up on it. Check out the undergraduate academic calendar where it says course codes I believe, or something or other. Not to be a shtickler, but I am. Not really this anal retentive in 'real' life, just in posting. It's 001-099 is first year 0100-0199 is General 2nd year and 0200-0299 is 2rd year honours 0300-0399 is 3rd year honours 0400-0499 is 4th year honours Some trivia, I spell honours with a 'u' but the university spells it without the 'u' - people got upset about it being unCanadian and the Senate had a formal inquiry into the matter. They concluded that 'honors' was not unCanadian and that they would not recommend a change. Personally, I like the 'u' but whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeDoc Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Not to be a shtickler, but I am. Not really this anal retentive in 'real' life, just in posting. It's 001-099 is first year 0100-0199 is General 2nd year and 0200-0299 is 2rd year honours 0300-0399 is 3rd year honours 0400-0499 is 4th year honours Some trivia, I spell honours with a 'u' but the university spells it without the 'u' - people got upset about it being unCanadian and the Senate had a formal inquiry into the matter. They concluded that 'honors' was not unCanadian and that they would not recommend a change. Personally, I like the 'u' but whatever. Thanks for the correction, I knew it was something like that or other. LOL, anal retentiveness can be a good thing sometimes, but not all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clive Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Hey, I meant to ask are third year courses considered equivalent to 4th year level courses? UWO states that 60% of your courses must correspond to the year you are in... so if you are in 4th year do 60% of your courses have to be 4th year level? or can they be a mixture of 3rd and 4th year courses? (Ignore the course codes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excalibre Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 I haven't read any rules about this specifically, but it would seem to me that 4th year courses start with a '4' so you should have at least 3 of your 5 courses as those. Personally, last year I took four 4th year courses and one 100 level course and that was fine by them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfette Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 It's all about the accessories eh? I've got a belt for every pair of shoes, how about that smurfette? I'm already smitten just thinking about it, DeeDoc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebichu Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Just a quick question: Does anyone know if the med school admin sometimes makes small exceptions in certain cases? For example, if some has a GPA for one of their two years a little below the cutoff solely because of one bad half-year course? Would it help if the GPA for the other year is very high (i.e. 3.95)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superking25 Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Nope. Two or nothing. However, one of those two can count if you're still taking a full course load in the year that you apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebichu Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Well the thing is that thanks to this one half course I took in the fall semester, the chances of me meeting the cutoff this year are nil. My marks for 2nd and 3rd year aren't quite there either, so they're not really much help. Looks like there goes my one shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkfalz Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 do a 5th 'special' year of undergrad and get >3.70 in it. (aka victory lap). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBeer Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ebichu, I have no way of knowing for sure, and I don't think anyone who has answered yet with their straight up 'no chance' answers know for sure either. The only thing you can do if you get accepted and you're 2nd 3.70 year is actually a 3.69, is to contact the admission people and plead your case. It is afterall only a number; and they are real people in admissions, not just an electronic system. I'm willing to bet all these horrow stories of people who lost their conditional acceptances had their 2nd best year considerably below the cutoff (eg.3.65, etc..), but this is of course speculation; and I am of course optomistic. I'm actually working my ass off right now to make sure my last year is above 3.7 since I already have 2 years at 3.69 This was also due to poor course selections resulting in a single 1 semester course grade of 71 in each of these years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfette Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Regarding DrBeer's comment... Do you have more than a full courseload? If you have 6 courses in one term or something, then you could try to argue your case by claiming that if you had just taken 5 courses ( a full courseload already), that you would have had 3.70+. Don't know whether that would help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkfalz Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 might have better luck talking to the prof for your classes that you didn't do so well in. Maybe a remarking of a test might move your mark just enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clkt Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Regarding DrBeer's comment... Do you have more than a full courseload? If you have 6 courses in one term or something, then you could try to argue your case by claiming that if you had just taken 5 courses ( a full courseload already), that you would have had 3.70+. Don't know whether that would help you. If you take more than 5 courses, Western only takes the best 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfette Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 If you take more than 5 courses, Western only takes the best 5 Okay, I see. Didn't remember that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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