supafield Posted October 3, 2009 Report Posted October 3, 2009 Interested in knowing how rural you are? In an e-mail reply regarding the context section of their application, a rurality index was discussed. A little searching revealed the OMA has established quite the complex rurality index used widely for determining just how rural some places are. I would hazard a guess that this is the rurality index NOSM was referring to. However, outside of Ontario I'm not sure what they would use. https://www.oma.org/Custom1/nlp/nlpwf003.aspx (type in your postal code to check your own rurality) https://www.oma.org/shortage/Data/00rurality.asp (explanation of how rurality is calculated) Hope this is interesting for some.
charmer08 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Posted October 3, 2009 awe i get a score of 0 lol just did it for fun
supafield Posted October 3, 2009 Author Report Posted October 3, 2009 Upon reading further, apparently the 2008 calculation is based on only several factors instead of the 10 listed for the 2004 one in an effort to simplify the calculation.
charmer08 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Posted October 3, 2009 Upon reading further, apparently the 2008 calculation is based on only several factors instead of the 10 listed for the 2004 one in an effort to simplify the calculation. can we trust supafield?
supafield Posted October 3, 2009 Author Report Posted October 3, 2009 can we trust supafield? Haha, I believe the consensus was no.... and any threads about the subject are liable to become so controversial they get shut down.
Cnussey Posted October 3, 2009 Report Posted October 3, 2009 So freakin' rural that my postal code (from where I grew up and from where I currently live) are not listed on their maps. Ha. (Note: this is b/c I'm in another province). I know I'm rural enough--the criteria for being in a "small" place for NOSM of <5000peeps...there are less than 550 in this town and I grew up in a place where there were 51families in total. You have to travel 4hrs to deliver babies I'd like them to try and argue that I'm not rural.
Tara21 Posted October 4, 2009 Report Posted October 4, 2009 Thanks for the awesome post. I have been known to compose hip-hop tunes about my rurality. For this to occur, the magic potion is more than one Stella Artois. On a serious note, last summer I found a very interesting report along the same lines. In addition, it used population density to determine how rural, remote, etc. a community was. No matter how 'rural' you are though, NOSM does seem to give a bigger preference to applicants from Northern Ontario. Of course, that all ties back to the school's mandate. Good luck to all the NOSM applicants this cycle.
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