Weighing Scheme

[lostintime]

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere, but I was unable to find this information on the website.

 

So to get admitted, the breakdown is

25% GPA

25% MCAT

50% interview

 

I"m curious though about what the 25% MCAT means..everyone's met cut-offs...so are they doing something like Manitoba where they average the scores i.e. 10 + 10 + 10 + writing score converted to # / 4 or something completely different?

25% GPA = ? For both years or only best year?

 

Thanks!

[eng_dude786]

from my understanding

 

they look at the year in which you had the highest GPA. You still need to have another year with at least a GPA of 3.7

 

Regarding the MCAT, you need to beat all the minimum cutoffs but they look at the VR and writing score.

[lostintime]

Thanks, but is this published anywhere? I vaguely remember something like this, but I can't find it anywhere....hmmm....

 

So for MCAT, is it something like verbal + writing divided by 2?

So if you get T as writing for example, you would have 14, whereas R = 12, etc. and then you average it to get a score.

 

So person A has verbal 10 and writing R would get a score of (10+ 12)/2 = 11? And then 11/15 x 25 = their score for that section?

 

Also, do they care if you carry a full courseload for the years which are not part of the two best > 3.7 GPA ones?

[Jochi1543]

they look at the year in which you had the highest GPA. You still need to have another year with at least a GPA of 3.7.

 

Dayum, shoulda taken more bird courses! Stupid physics dragged me down from 4.0 to 3.83 in my best year. LOL

[webshy]

TAlso, do they care if you carry a full courseload for the years which are not part of the two best > 3.7 GPA ones?

 

No, Western doesn't care about you course loads, as long as you have two years with 5.0 courses (excluding repeated courses) above their cut-off. For that matter, they don't care what marks you got in your other years, as long as you will earn your degree.

 

Elaine