ellee Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Hi everyone. I thought people would be interested to know that one of my verifiers for my Dalhousie application was contacted today by email. They are cutting it close if decisions need to be made by Friday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMMD Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Would you be able to tell the details (what activity, how many hours, duration). Just want to get an idea of what kind of thing they are checking, although it may be completely random. THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellee Posted October 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 I worked full time during one summer of my undergrad in a lab (35 hrs/week, 4 months). I put down the research associate at the lab as a verifier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMMD Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Interesting, thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyflower Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Just out of curiousity - is your app showing Decision Made or Incomplete Items Outstanding? And are you OOP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North12 Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 One of mine was checked too. A volunteer placement that was listed under medically relevant. Sounds like it is a pretty random check. Edit: Incomplete items outstanding, OOP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellee Posted October 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Just out of curiousity - is your app showing Decision Made or Incomplete Items Outstanding? And are you OOP? Application status: Incomplete Items Outstanding. I am OOP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gb35 Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Just out of curiousity - is your app showing Decision Made or Incomplete Items Outstanding? And are you OOP? Your app won't show "decision made" until after the offers go out in March. Mine said "incomplete items outstanding" even after I'd received my offer for a day or two, so don't spend time worrying about that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyflower Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 I only asked because someone else on the forum posted their status already being decision made - but I don't think we should probably read anything into what our statuses are. I'm just going crazy with anticipation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golgifun Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Mine says decision made. I don't feel it's a particularly good sign having a decision made so early, relatively speaking. Looking at past threads, it appears this status is not indicative of the granting of an interview or not. BTW, I'm a bit surprised they're contacting verifiers at this stage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treejuice1 Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 My DalOnline page has not changed since submitting Step 1. As in, the field for like transcript received or MCAT received isn't there at all. But I emailed the school and they said they could see that it had been received, so I supposed that's all that matters... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funnyboy6 Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 One of my referees got contacted a few days ago...and I'm OOP. I don't know if this means anything, but at least they are still looking at my file! (fingers crossed!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaeFleur Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 IP here. Three of mine were all contacted two days ago (at the same time, same email sent out haha). Feels pretty good actually, and makes me realize it's only two months until we hear! Yikes! Do you think they've made some decisions already and are checking people who have been moved into the next level/decision? Or no decisions yet and they're checking all applicants? Or only those activities that they feel warrant a check? This is just silly speculation of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardorous Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Any NB'ers have their verifiers checked? I'm only still in touch with a couple of mine, and unfortunately they're the ones that probably wouldn't need to be checked (grad school, NSERC scholarship, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalman Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I am a NBer and I had a volunteer and grad school reference checked in early December. Like others I am not sure what this means but I was happy to see they were at least still considering my application... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheezwhiz2 Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 It is hard not to get excited when a verifier is checked and there is 36 days until we find out about admission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaeFleur Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Ahhh! 36 days? Wow it's getting close. Last year I don't remember any verifiers saying they were contacted. I also can't imagine they check hundreds of applicants' verifiers, but of course this is just speculation, as you said. Can't help but try to analyze things when it gets this close to decision time!! I was thinking this too, but I don't remember them asking for verifiers last year the way they did this year. I could be wrong, but I remember in September feeling daunted by having to contact so many people to give them a heads up that Dal might call/email them, I don't remember doing that last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North12 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 Shhh I'm so jealous of you all. Many of my verifiers were checked back in October (oop). I wish I had a reason be excited and speculate with you guys... I definitely think it's a good sign bc I did get an interview after they checked mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcw89 Posted January 30, 2012 Report Share Posted January 30, 2012 it is exciting knowing the process is in motion! however, not to really rain on anybody's parade, but if you don't get in, you have the opportunity to have a phone conversation in which you learn how many points you got in each section vs the average for that particular section. And the whole point of it is to show you where you can improve, so I doubt they would just toss points blindly at you without actually verifying the activities... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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