ATTN past third year applicants

[Leonidas]

If you have applied as a third year applicant, can you please post your stats and whether you were accepted or not? Its going to settle a little theory me and some friends have been testing...

[Kuantum]

http://www.premed101.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1275

[Masaki]

if it's about discrimination against 3rd years, I don't think there is any. I called admissions and they said they don't discriminate. There are only less 3rd years who get accepted because less apply and tend to have less non academic experiences than they would in 4th year.

I was on the waitlist last year (got rejected in september) even with an NAQ of 11 or so.

What is this theory? would you mind sharing? some of us may be able to give you some input.

[Leonidas]

It doesn't really only pertain to third years...but I came up with the theory studying several third year friends of mine who were accepted/ rejected by UBC med. For third years, I find that by and large people with really good averages (88+) tend to beat out people with okay marks (84-85). So to generalize, I think the "85 is the tops= 25/25" talk goes out the window in the final selection, and in the end a 90 is much better than an 85. That partly explains why one year 8/17 (thereabouts) of accepted third yeras are pharmacology students, who have averages in the low 90's. If AQ really tops out at 25/25, then these people should have not much difference than say a student with 85% average.

 

Wow, and Masaki, to be on the waitlist your marks must have been really really high!

[Masaki]

nope, I had an 85% and a 25/25 on my AQ. it was my NAQ that killed me.

I'm not sure about your theory, because they acctually gave me a 25/25 for my AQ =T...

[sfuguy]

Hi Masaki

Just curious, if you don't mind, what was your scaled interview score? I also had a 36 going into the interview and received 85% (scaled) on my interview, but was rejected in may.

[Masaki]

I had 36.16 for my file review, 83.68 for my consensus and 9 for my recommendation

 

it says 21/9 on my feedback. is the 21 my interview score out of 25?

 

your score seems better, which would be odd if you didn't get waitlisted... what was your recommendation?

[sfuguy]

Wow, my exact score going in was 35.7 with an 85 interview, 8 recommendation. Since you were held on the waitlist until September, you must have been quite high on the list, and the difference between your position and not even getting waitlisted is amazingly small!!

 

Thanks Masaki and good luck this year!!!

[Leonidas]

Wow....you guys almost have an identical score in everything! But remember, other factors come into play, like prereq average, extra points for increasing GPA trends, negative points for decreasing, MCAT flags, references that could have made the difference.

[Leonidas]

and good luck to both Masaki and sfuguy, I'm sure since both of you came so close last time, you'll both make it in this time!

[Masaki]

thanks! I have my fingers crossed =P I wish you luck aswell!

[agray33]

hey guys,

 

I am planning on applying to UBC next year (3rd year) so I was wondering if you could hook some answers to these Q's...

 

Ill have ~85%, but I was interested in seeing what kind of NAQ score I would receive. What kind of EC's did you guys have? NAQ score's?

 

thanks

[woolywooly]

hey guys,

 

I am planning on applying to UBC next year (3rd year) so I was wondering if you could hook some answers to these Q's...

 

Ill have ~85%, but I was interested in seeing what kind of NAQ score I would receive. What kind of EC's did you guys have? NAQ score's?

 

thanks

 

I was sitting next to a 3rd year applying to UBC at the interview last weekend. He said that this was the last year that UBC was accepting 3rd year applicants. You may have to look into this to verify it but it's likely you will not be able to apply next year. Perhaps you were just stating that you were in 3rd year this year and therefore would be done your degree next year. Good luck.

[Leonidas]

I heard about them changing the rule to prevent third years from applying too, but heard that it was reversed. I checked it out for myself, and UBC's admissions website says:

 

"Applicants applying by September 2008 for entrance in September 2009 must have completed 90 credits and the required prerequisite courses (or equivalents) by April 30, 2009. "

 

So I think its okay to apply as a third year next year.