TheGoodOldDays Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 I came super-close to the cut-off for an interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siobhansiobhan Posted June 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 So pre-interview - 29.15 interview - 33.56 (exact same score as tooty - tooty does this mean anything in terms of standard deviations, that such strange scores would be exactly the same? or just x amount of interviews averaged?) essay - 7.35 total - 70.06 REQUEST - for each person getting off the waitlist, can you say your score, so that we can know when things are getting closer to us??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premed03 Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Are we ranked according to only the total score? Or would it matter what section we did best on? My total score is 68.39 and I am still on waitlist. BTW, I contacted the Admissions Office today and she said that there should be a lot of waitlist movement this week. She also said that the IP list moves faster than the OOP list. Pre-interview: 32.2 Interview: 29.89 Essay: 6.3 Total: 68.39 3rd year IP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamer Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 I was rejected (3rd year IP) with: Pre-interview: 30.9 Interveiw: 29.56 (LOL) Essay: 5.55 (LOLx2) = 66.01 I imagine if you're too close to my score, I'd be worried. It gives me some comfort knowing that I lost all my marks based on my interview which I didn't pre for more than an hour for, not because they hate my EC's. Goodluck waitlisters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooty Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 damn it. I got 68. seems dangerously close to 66 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krgregg Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 have faith i thought I "JUST" made the interview cutoff last year (<1pt above). adele told me there were at least 60-80 people between me and the cutoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushlane Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 I got in off the waitlist June 6. Here are my scores: Preinterview: 29.62 Interview: 35.22 Essay: 6.4 Total: 71.25 Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvdaog Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Pre-Interview(40): 30.30 Interview(50): 35.78 Essay(10): 6.10 total: 72.18 I was accepted... I think May 27th? Probably useless info since lower scores than mine have been posted as acceptances, but in case it helps someone - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medellin Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 got in last week, Pre-Interview(40): 30.18 Interview(50):33.00 Essay(10):7.40 total: 70.58 good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siobhansiobhan Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Glad to see things still moving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Anyone else find it interesting that of the ten people who have reported their pre-interview scores (fine, 10 isn't particularly significant statistically, but whatever), the range is a mere 28.78 - 30.9 /40 (or 2.12 points out of the 100 that determine admissions rank) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic_monkey Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 just shows how competitive it is eh? 1 point can make all the difference... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siobhansiobhan Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 the scores we're seeing right now are mostly of folks who got on the waitlist this year. so all the people who got outright acceptances do not get represented, and all the people who were rejected do not get represented. makes sense that if this is a normal curve, there was very little difference. not sure what the s.d. would be on this one, but 68%, remember, cluster around 1 s.d. either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 well, no they don't represent everyone, but they do represent anyone interviewed (ie. those in the upper 20% of the curve pre-interview) i guess my only obersvations are that 1. most of those interviewed fall within a fairly narrow range of scores (makes sense considering the shape of a bell - most people should be expected to be clustered near the "lower" portion of the top 20%) 2. given (1), interview-day performance was an extremely important deciding factor (especially when each essay/room was worth twiceish the number of points as the entire range of pre-I scores we've seen posted so far) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer J. Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Are we ranked according to only the total score? Or would it matter what section we did best on? My total score is 68.39 and I am still on waitlist. BTW, I contacted the Admissions Office today and she said that there should be a lot of waitlist movement this week. She also said that the IP list moves faster than the OOP list. Pre-interview: 32.2 Interview: 29.89 Essay: 6.3 Total: 68.39 3rd year IP Premed 03, My wife called in earlier today and the office told her the exact opposite (the OOP moves faster and the IP list is stagnating). My wife is at 68.28. Sucks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siobhansiobhan Posted June 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 well, no they don't represent everyone, but they do represent anyone interviewed (ie. those in the upper 20% of the curve pre-interview) i guess my only obersvations are that 1. most of those interviewed fall within a fairly narrow range of scores (makes sense considering the shape of a bell - most people should be expected to be clustered near the "lower" portion of the top 20%) 2. given (1), interview-day performance was an extremely important deciding factor (especially when each essay/room was worth twiceish the number of points as the entire range of pre-I scores we've seen posted so far) Hi George - we don't really know what kind of distribution things follow - normal, Gaussian. If it were a normal distribution, 2.5% is above 2 standard deviations, 13.5% is within the 1 standard deviation going upwards - that's already 16%, and then the last 4% is where the big hump and clustering would begin. So there was likely a big range of pre-interview scores. I think you're right, that at the cutoff mark, ultimately 0.01% made the differnece, and there was a bit of a cluster around there, and after that, like lucky you, it was anyone's game for the 60% post-interview.... I am now in that little cluster that will likely be around the cutoff for acceptance, which of course will once again come down to 0.01%, and here's to hoping that I and all of us make it! George - you did well! The process is a ranking process, and I hear your point that in ranks we can sometimes forget how close many of us resemble each other's scores. I for one am thinking of simple little things I could have done to get a point or two extra. I think the best we can do right now is a bit of Bayesian updating as the acceptances keep coming, and we can see how they scores are progressing. It's been exciting having this chatter on the list over the last few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer J. Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Any of you sexy people know if they are increasing the enrollment for the this class? I have been hearing (mostly unqualified) that they are boosting the enrollment to close to 160. Mostly by allocating the 15 some seats they have for international students to IP students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SitRep Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Hi all, I was just accepted off the waitlist at UofA and will be withdrawing from the UofC shortly. Good luck to all those waiting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Homer J: All I know is that at my interview day, Dr. Lemay said that if the class size was being increased, we'd probably hear before the school did, mainly on account of the $telmach government announcing it publicly. More generally, I'm curious about how any class size increase would be possible given what they wrote in their accrediation self-study: "The Class of 2010 has 152 students, which is the maximum capacity of the two current theatres used for lectures ... Any future class expansions will require major building renovations to accommodate students. The only remaining large theatre, the Libin (320 seats) is unsuitable for classes as it has seating without writing tablets, provides no electrical outlets, and the acoustics and visual aids are suboptimal." (source: here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer J. Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 The extra capacity may be created by the reallocation of seats. Currently, a number of seats are reserved for foreign students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premed03 Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Premed 03, My wife called in earlier today and the office told her the exact opposite (the OOP moves faster and the IP list is stagnating). My wife is at 68.28. Sucks!!! I know... it seems strange. She said that the IP list goes faster, and I asked her to confirm what I understood, and she did. I was surprised when she said that because someone had posted previously that the OOP list is like a rabbit and the IP like a turtle. So maybe she got the two lists confused? Ultimately, it doesn't really matter because I still don't know if I'll get off the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premed03 Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Any of you sexy people know if they are increasing the enrollment for the this class? I have been hearing (mostly unqualified) that they are boosting the enrollment to close to 160. Mostly by allocating the 15 some seats they have for international students to IP students. When I talked to the Admissions Office yesterday, I was told that the government had not yet told U of C to increase its class size, so U of C must wait for the go-ahead from the government before proceeding. I suggest we all flood the gov't with e-mails requesting that U of C increase its class size Also, I asked if the new spots would go to specific groups of people or to the next people on the ranked wait list. She was very surprised to hear the idea that the new spots would only go to certain groups, and assured me that they would simply go down the waitlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 The extra capacity may be created by the reallocation of seats. Currently, a number of seats are reserved for foreign students. makes sense... but that would still only happen with government funding, given that right now those int'l seats aren't subsidized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saberial Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Any news?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kite Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 thanks for the news, futdoc! hopefully it works out for us waitlisters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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