cindersley Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Talked to Queens today, apparently the WS has gone up... Last year's was P. Wonder how far it has gone up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherv Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Any indication as to when the Adcom meeting was held and/or when they expect to post the cutoffs on the website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindersley Posted January 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I believe they said the cutoffs will be posted within a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouchitburns Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 angry. I hate WS cutoffs. What kind of representative writing sample can possibly be graded by a computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I think a real person grades the WS, not the computer. Did they say if any other cutoffs are going up? (please not verbal or physics....yikes). And they should still interview same NUMBER of applicants as last year right? Like it's not a certain top% of all applicants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ouchitburns Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 both do. score is an average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I'm glad I have a T. At least this might mean that other cutoffs don't go up or drop - I doubt there'd be an increase in a lot of parameters when the size of the applicant pool is smaller. Drop the 2-yr GPA to 3.76! LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherv Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I believe they said the cutoffs will be posted within a week. Great, thanks for the info. I'm sitting at a Q for WS, so hopefully it hasn't been increased more than 1 point. I can't possibly imagine that they'd raise any one cutoff by 2 or more points this year when the applicant pool is that much smaller. Either way, I'd imagine then that the cutoffs will be either: 10/10/10 30Q or 9/10/9 32Q First one I meet, second I don't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 So you guys don't think it'll be like VR 11 or PS 11? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryn Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 I'm screwed if PS is 11... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Jumping up to an 11 is way too big..you will cut out too much If WS is going up, does that mean that gpa will stay around the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest begaster Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Oh God, let the GPA stay the same. Or drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Oh God, let the GPA stay the same. Or drop. I think going from a P to a Q is a huge jump especially with a smaller applicant pool. I remember talking to them last year at this fair and they said that they would try really hard to get around having the gpa go up to 3.7 if they could. Maybe they are planning to interview less people? I dont see how they could afford to given that its almost 1:1 as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Talked to Queens today,apparently the WS has gone up... Last year's was P. Wonder how far it has gone up... just out of curiosity, are you a med student or an applicant? why would they release such cryptic info to you? I'm just a natural skeptic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindersley Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Sorry guys! I should have written in greater detail, didn't mean to cause so much anxiety ><. Okay, the admin lady didn't want to speak in absolutes but she said that the MCAT verbal/bio/physics scores "may not" go up. but the WS is higher this year. I didn't ask about GPA. They're interviewing about the same number of people as last year i believe even though there are less applicants. And again I emphasis, she really didn't say that anything was "for sure". So when the cutoffs are actually posted, things may be different! So we probably don't need to over speculate . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindersley Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 oh and Dante, I'm an applicant. I'm actually surprised that they told me anything at all. my past experiences with admin offices is that they usually don't want to give anyone any info until its officially posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daryn Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 The wait is killing me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherv Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 The wait is killing me... Believe me, you're not the only one. I've been checking the cutoffs page every day for nearly a month, every day thinking that "this could be the day they're posted". Its excruciating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 *refresh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostintime Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Really? I find it's not bothering me as much. (And no I don't have a super high MCAT or GPA before people say I'm being egotistical...I'm pretty much borderline right now). I guess I am just in denial that this year is so important lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Really? I find it's not bothering me as much. (And no I don't have a super high MCAT or GPA before people say I'm being egotistical...I'm pretty much borderline right now). I guess I am just in denial that this year is so important lol. Well, my GPA is a bit below last year's cutoff, so I originally relegated myself to not getting an interview, and would be very pleasantly surprised if I go get one - so if the cut-offs go up or stay the same, I won't be devastated or anything, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpherv Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Really? I find it's not bothering me as much. (And no I don't have a super high MCAT or GPA before people say I'm being egotistical...I'm pretty much borderline right now). I guess I am just in denial that this year is so important lol. Well, I'm currently in the 2nd year of a M.Sc. and have been through this process once already. Queen's and UoT are probably the two schools I have the best chance at, and I'd rather not have to come up with something to do (which would probably be a 5th year of undergraduate study) for next year. I'd really like to get on with it - especially since I've made the decision to forgo transfering to the Ph.D. stream for next year, and have thus given up a very solid backup plan in order to focus on medical school entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidas Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 This is a bit strange. The GPA stays the same as does all the other sections of the MCAT. Yet the writing section goes up?!? There are quite a bit fewer applicants and in a previous post they want to interview the same number, so shouldn't the cutoffs stay the same or go down...? Though I'm just trying to create some hope for myself with an O on the writing section lol. It's most likely because this smaller group presented with much higher stats that last year. Sigh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hun Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Well I'm hoping for something like a 9 PS/BS, 10 VR and a 3.76 two year GPA. If they can get that by raising the WS to a Q and going with a 32 overall MCAT that's fine by me. If any of you have a Mac with Leopard don't forget that you can take snippets of a webpage (like the Queen's cutoffs for example) and have it open in your dashboard. Saves precious seconds in your daily refresh routine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 If any of you have a Mac with Leopard don't forget that you can take snippets of a webpage (like the Queen's cutoffs for example) and have it open in your dashboard. Saves precious seconds in your daily refresh routine. hehehe that's not a bad idea... lol and i haven't been obsessing about the cutoffs lately (b/c i just expected them to stay the same... but if ws is going up... web snippet is my best friend) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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