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Is it BEST two years or latest two years? I'm pretty sure it's the latter, correct me if I'm wrong. Nevertheless, congrats on the interview!

 

I'm starting to think I must've bombed my essay considering I haven't heard back from UofT or Dal yet...

 

Thanks imagine!

You may be right about the latest two years thing. My latest 2 happen to be my best so its all the same lol ;)

 

Word on the street is that there are still a bunch of invites to go out. Don't know if they are OOP or IP or both.

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does anyone know for certain how much the essay is worth this year? I think I really killed that component (about 100 hours total went into those 1500 words, hahaha). Hopefully at least 10 of the 100?

 

So, I got this from an old post, and have no idea how accurate/up-to-date it is. Meme me wrote it awhile ago:

 

"A complete breakdown of weighting in previous years:

 

Academic: /30 (MCAT, GPA, discretion factor)

Supplemental: /30 (Extra-curriculars, jobs, volunteer work, medically related experience, essay)

References: /15

Interview: /25

 

As previously mentioned, this could change a bit this year because of the reference change."

 

Even if it's not really that accurate anymore, it shows that the essay/autobiographical info. is v. imp. once you have an interview. I imagine that means that it is also v. important to get one! :)

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That seems right to me...The only changes that Dr. Sutton eluded to when I met with her last summer were that instead of GPA/MCAT being 13/12.. it was going to go 15/10. And that at that time they were considering taking all the points from reference letters and putting them onto the interview. So interviews would be 40% this year. References would just be used to tie break- maybe add bonus points if they were really outstanding. When I met with her, (early July) it seemed to be still up in the air- but that was where they were headed.

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So, I got this from an old post, and have no idea how accurate/up-to-date it is. Meme me wrote it awhile ago:

 

"A complete breakdown of weighting in previous years:

 

Academic: /30 (MCAT, GPA, discretion factor)

Supplemental: /30 (Extra-curriculars, jobs, volunteer work, medically related experience, essay)

References: /15

Interview: /25

 

As previously mentioned, this could change a bit this year because of the reference change."

 

Even if it's not really that accurate anymore, it shows that the essay/autobiographical info. is v. imp. once you have an interview. I imagine that means that it is also v. important to get one! :)

 

Now take this with a grain of salt, but I heard second hand from a few friends currently in med school at dal, that they've changed the scoring and that the interview is "well over a third of your application". If true, then all the scoring has been revised.

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I am going to assume that I won't be receiving an interview as I still haven't heard anything. It does suck that I might have to wait until the end of the month to be officially denied when I was expecting to find out either way on Feb. 9th.

 

Oh well, what are you going to do? It's a seller's market.

 

Good luck to all those who were lucky enough to get an interview and hopefully those who didn't have interviews at other schools.

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So, I got this from an old post, and have no idea how accurate/up-to-date it is. Meme me wrote it awhile ago:

 

"A complete breakdown of weighting in previous years:

 

Academic: /30 (MCAT, GPA, discretion factor)

Supplemental: /30 (Extra-curriculars, jobs, volunteer work, medically related experience, essay)

References: /15

Interview: /25

 

As previously mentioned, this could change a bit this year because of the reference change."

 

Even if it's not really that accurate anymore, it shows that the essay/autobiographical info. is v. imp. once you have an interview. I imagine that means that it is also v. important to get one! :)

 

This has changed for this year. The interview would be worth 50% this year, and the reference letters are worth 0%..they are only used as flags.

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When I met with Dr. Sutton this summer they were current considering the following breakdown:

 

Supplemental Section (essay, ecs, work experience, etc.) - 30%

GPA- 15%

MCAT- 10%

Academic Discretion (I've heard this is MSc, PhDs, Publications, additional courses, working during school semesters, etc.) - 5%

Interview- 40%

References- 0%- (tie breakers, flags)

 

Not sure if this is 100% accurate, but is the most recent I've heard.

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When I met with Dr. Sutton this summer they were current considering the following breakdown:

 

Supplemental Section (essay, ecs, work experience, etc.) - 30%

GPA- 15%

MCAT- 10%

Academic Discretion (I've heard this is MSc, PhDs, Publications, additional courses, working during school semesters, etc.) - 5%

Interview- 40%

References- 0%- (tie breakers, flags)

 

Not sure if this is 100% accurate, but is the most recent I've heard.

 

Seems about inline from what I've heard from friends at Dal Med.

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Does anyone know how many people they're interviewing for how many seats? Similar to last year err..?

 

Provincial breakdown looks like this:

21 students will be from NB

7 students will be from PE

62 students will be from NS

8 students from outside the Maritimes

 

 

Stats for the class of 2012

 

Total Applicants – 688

 

Maritime applicants – 311

 

Eligible – interviewed - 239 – 89 positions offered

Ineligible / non-competitive – 72

Non-Maritime applicants – 377

Eligible – 250 – 60 interviewed – 9 positions offered

Ineligible/non competitive/no interview offered – 317

 

 

Information from http://admissions.medicine.dal.ca/class.htm

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