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[Guest yaymed]

Hi all,

 

I'm a little confused about whether/how we should provide "verifiers" for certain activities.

 

The OMSAS booklet says "Do not forward supplementary pages, letters of recommendation, curriculum vitae, etc." while Queen's says, "Verifiers could include teachers, supervisors, identifying sources and dates, a description of awards or certificates, or similar documentation."

 

Does this mean we can send photocopies of certificates to Queen's directly but shouldn't send them to OMSAS?

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<pagetext>Are there any universities that treat previous rejections in a negative light? I've never heard of any, but I just wanted to check that this is the case.

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<pagetext>Hi,

 

I am a student from the US, and I just recently became a Canadian permanent resident. My MCAT is a 33Q, and my BCPM GPA is 3.74, and total is 3.78. I have done a total of 2 years of undergrad studies in the US, and received a year's worth of credits from A levels (a british high school exam).

 

Now, my question is...how good are my chances of getting into an ontario medical school, especially considering the fact that I have technically done only two years of undergrad studies in the canadian system (since they don't consider A levels college level courses). I am going to be appying soon, but I'd rather know my chances beforehand...

 

Thanks in advance for all your help.

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<pagetext>HI,

I have a question concerning the postsecondary education section in OMSA. I have started graduate studies in the summer of 2004, thus I am in the first year of a Master's program, but I am only going to start grad courses this fall, thus should I include that I am attending graduate school? I just got confused since it says to enter the details of postsecondary institutions that you have attended..I assumed that means in the past.

 

thanks for your help.

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<pagetext>I don't normally post articles but this one came across me this early Labor Day morning. I've been arguing to my parents for the last few years that entrance to post-secondary education institutions in Canada, despite being "higher", actually is not, as rampant grade inflation is occurs in many high schools across the country. Although this article does not specifically address the issue of grade inflation, I think it does say that the quality of high school grads today isn't what it used to be. Unless courses in university have gotten much harder since the 7 years I started first year at UBC, the dropout rates in some programs (1 in 3 in engineering!) are astounding.

 

 

It's an unlikely scene: In the last days of summer, nervous high-school grads are sitting attentively in a university classroom for a refresher course in mathematics.

 

The group expects first-year university to be tougher than high school, but some are quickly learning a brutal lesson.

 

"I'm hearing all these differences with integrals, but they didn't teach it in high school. Apparently we're covering it in first year and they expect us to know it," Mark Charette, 17, said after one such class in Ottawa.

 

If the graduate of Notre Dame high school is bracing himself for the transition to first-year mechanical engineering, so is the University of Ottawa.

 

It's introducing a new hurdle this fall in its first-year calculus course, a staple for business, science and engineering students. Any student who does not do well on a new diagnostic test, to be administered in the first week, will have to attend day-long calculus workshops on two consecutive Saturdays later this month to try to get up to speed.

 

"The content of the high-school calculus program looks good. If the students are learning what's written down, they should come to any university and not struggle. But they do, so something is not working. For some reason, they're just lost," said program coordinator Leonard Klein, assistant dean in the faculty of science.

 

Klein isn't the only one unable to crack a perplexing problem on campuses across the country.

 

The entrance requirements of high-school graduates keep rising at Canadian universities, yet some professors complain that too many freshmen lack basic writing and math skills, leaving them unprepared for the rigours of university.

 

Drop-out rates, meanwhile, remain stubbornly high in some programs, and universities are furiously expanding their academic-support services for students in a conscious break from the campus tradition of letting students sink or swim.

 

At U of O, for example, one in three engineering students drops out before earning a degree. Three in 10 math students fail to graduate.

 

At the University of Saskatch-ewan, where two out of 10 freshmen don't return for second-year, the faculty of arts recently completed a task force on reading and writing to examine, in part, high-school curricula in language arts "with a view to bridging the apparent gulf between high school and university expectations in reading and writing."

 

Ryerson University in Toronto, meanwhile, is introducing a pilot program this fall to identify students with unacceptably low writing and math skills and help them improve.

 

For the first time, all first-year engineering students are required to write language-proficiency and diagnostic math tests. If they fail to meet a certain threshold, they will have to take remedial courses.

 

"We're concerned. We know that a student who has good communication and math skills has a much stronger chance of success. We want to get these issues up front as much as possible. You can have stellar marks in English and math courses in high school, and it can speak to your math and English skills, but it doesn't always," said registrar Keith Alnwick.

 

A trial run last fall, when the tests were conducted on a voluntary basis, revealed that one in five students, 132 of 640, failed to meet the language proficiency bar and were directed to enrol in the appropriate intensive courses in communication and writing intensive; 150 first-year engineering students declined to take the test.

 

Simon Fraser University is taking a harder-line approach. Beginning in the fall of 2006, exceptional high-school marks in English won't be enough to earn admission to the school.

 

"Despite those high admissions standards, we get lots of anecdotal feedback from faculty in classes that the standard of student writing is not what it ought to be -- not universally, but too frequently. Students really need to get their standards up," said K.C. Bell, coordinator for SFU's curriculum implement program.

 

Applicants who fail to earn 86 per cent in their Grade 12 English course will have to pass an essay question on a language proficiency test.

 

Depending on their high-school marks and their test scores, some will have to take a non-credit foundation writing-skills course, while others will be rejected altogether.

 

Further, SFU is currently reviewing whether to require minimum scores from other sections of the language proficiency test, which include grammar and usage sections, to earn admission.

 

In math, students who fail to earn at least 70 per cent in their high-school math course will be required to pass a basic skills course during their first-year at SFU.

 

The coming admissions hurdles at SFU are clear, but like the University of Ottawa, officials are less certain about the source of the difficulty. "We really don't know what the problem is," said Bell.

 

© The Vancouver Sun 2004

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<pagetext>I read in the Toronto Star in the summer that there will be increased enrollment at Canadian medical schools for the Sept 2005 class, does anyone know what this means for the ppl applying and by how much will they be increasing the enrollment by?

 

thanks

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