Cut-offs soon

[AdamP]

holy eff you guys,

 

so queens goes to R, western to 11VR but lower GPA

 

i guess all the mac health sci *****ing has caused schools to up their MCAT weighting lol

[RandomGuy]

Holy crap supafield... nice find. I actually did that last night (changing the year from the 2009 cut-offs to "2010") and the file did not exist, so that would confirm that it was just uploaded today.

[supafield]

Haha, I don't know if I want to take credit for discovering such a verbal cutoff...

[rmorelan]

Yes indeed as we speak, mere feet away from me the cut offs are being posted

 

bear with us with the text on the site - it is being updated.

[fady]

Kinda sad to have sorta irrelevant sections of the MCAT increase in requirments , while the important ones drop (BS and PS). Oh well, life indeed is a b.

[pm09]

Kinda sad to have sorta irrelevant sections of the MCAT increase in requirments , while the important ones drop (BS and PS). Oh well, life indeed is a b.

 

VR is best predictor of success in medical school.

Not surprising considering that intellectual reasoning is much more important in medicine than factual knowledge.

[track_star_x]

If you meet the cut-offs, do you get an interview?

 

Thanks!

[MansionMD]

holy eff you guys,

 

so queens goes to R, western to 11VR but lower GPA

 

i guess all the mac health sci *****ing has caused schools to up their MCAT weighting lol

 

what's this mac health sci b*tching you are talking about?

[fady]

VR is best predictor of success in medical school.

Not surprising considering that intellectual reasoning is much more important in medicine than factual knowledge.

 

That's true, but I find that I am good at reasoning stuff out when it comes to scientific material, as opposed to world history and the rituals of forgotten south american tribes. I know I might be a bit bitter here, but I think the articles we are required to read in the VR section don't bring out the reasoning skills in the proper context of scientific knowledge.

[gibson303]

I feel you bro. FUK THIS. Western's medical program and satellite campus crap is in total **** anyway because of the resignations. I HATE WESTERN.

 

I feel your pain, but its not in trouble at all. If anything it will be better with the resignations.

[AdamP]

what's this mac health sci b*tching you are talking about?

 

there is no actual fact to that comment, there are multiple flame wars on pm101 about about the ease of mac health sci, and two schools have now upped their mcat cutoffs pretty dramatically and cut their gpa ones.

 

I said that more as a joke (i want no part in the mac fight), western and queens have traditionally been the mcat heavy schools in ontario.

[MansionMD]

it's interesting how they revised the text on the site from "2010 Entry" back to "2009 Entry", instead of changing the link itself from "Cutoffs2009entry.pdf" to "Cutoffs2010entry.pdf"

[fady]

it's interesting how they revised the text on the site from "2010 Entry" back to "2009 Entry", instead of changing the link itself from "Cutoffs2009entry.pdf" to "Cutoffs2010entry.pdf"

 

Ah, MansionMD. We are so in denial. VR=11 is not a cool move on the part of UWO.

[HBP]

Wonder how high a VR score you need to be good with html link direction.

 

Regardless, it's final. The 2010 document is uploaded to their server, just needs a link to point to it.

[MansionMD]

it's interesting how they revised the text on the site from "2010 Entry" back to "2009 Entry", instead of changing the link itself from "Cutoffs2009entry.pdf" to "Cutoffs2010entry.pdf"

 

Ah, MansionMD. We are so in denial. VR=11 is not a cool move on the part of UWO.

 

seriously tho, why would they change it back, as opposed to changing the link?

[HBP]

^^ Welcome to my life mlbn.

[MansionMD]

too many posts, lets flash chat instead: http://premed101.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

[pm09]

I feel sorry for all the qualified applicants that wont even be granted an interview with the Queens and UWO cut offs. Theoretically a a GPA of 3.82, an MCAT of say 12,10,13 Q won't be good for three of the ontario schools (queens, uwo and ottawa)

 

there is nothing special about these numbers.

being qualified is not enough... there are more qualified applicants than spots.

[HBP]

You're right dude, 95th percentile at an MCAT strict cutoff school aint special at all.

[pm09]

You're right dude, 95th percentile at an MCAT strict cutoff school aint special at all.

 

obviously there were more people with 95th percentile on the mcat than they could interview so they had to raise the cutoffs. raising VR cutoffs is more fair imo than high cutoffs on highly variable measures such as GPA or WS

[Zipper]

I love how years of hard work can be negated by 2-3 answers on one section of a standardized test.

[HBP]

obviously there were more people with 95th percentile on the mcat than they could interview so they had to raise the cutoffs. raising VR cutoffs is more fair imo than high cutoffs on highly variable measures such as GPA or WS

 

Obviously a 9/11/10/P is not higher than 95th percentile.

[pm09]

Obviously a 9/11/10/P is not higher than 95th percentile.

and that argument would supprt dropping the other two sections cut off?!

 

 

you can be a keener and score high on BS and PS... but you still need excellent reasoning skills for medicine so a high VR score is more essential than an overall high score.

[pm09]

and the writing section?how about that going to a P? I suppose you would argue that wiriting is also irrelvant or can be mastered through keenerism!!

ps. I really don't mean to argue with you, I'm just mad as I coulda made the cut offs had the mcat not changed

 

The AAMC themselves say in their documents that WS scoring can be somewhat arbitrary and variable, since it is not standardized. Therefore high WS cutoffs make no sense.

[HBP]

Couldn't wrap my head around the R for Queens. This is even worse.