mangoarecool Posted December 5, 2012 Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 Does any one know the previous years interview formulas, in the last three years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markov79 Posted December 5, 2012 Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 what do you mean? "pre-interview evaluation"? "post-interview evaluation"? dunno about the year before last, but last yr's pre-int scoring was the 25/25/46 gpa/vr/casper + grad score (if applicable). as far as i can remember, the post-interview formula's been 15/15/70 gpa/vr/int. but ya, you prob knew that all ready. sorry i'm not much help beyond recent history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangoarecool Posted December 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 if there is a similar formula in previous years as to this year, you can basically predict the gpa and verbal scores. Last year it was a 3.75 average but im sure it will jump to at least 3.8 this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troplondon14 Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 I think last year's formula was 46-50% CASPER, 25% GPA and 25% . I know a person with a GPA around 3.6 got accepted (she said she got extremely lucky with CASPER!). The formula after you finish your interview only includes your MMI score, GPA and VR score. I am not sure if they look at your reference letters or E/Cs but it seems like they don't! PS. 36 people got accepted last year with a GPA less than 3.60 (21 with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.49) http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/mdprog/documents/Classof2015.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All_nighter05 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 With that ~50% CASPer formula from last year, they basically said that a 90 minute test>>>an undergraduate degree. Kind of frustrating, but the CASPer does offer some interesting admission criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccerFanatic Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Just based on the new weighting, I think that might change a bit since the score weighting this year is: 32% each for VR, CASPer and GPA 4% for graduate degree My guess would be it would be a bit more GPA based so the average acceptance may go up to 3.8 however it really depends on if they score GPA/VR/CASPer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All_nighter05 Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Yeah, that's what will happen this year. I'm just explaining my frustration with last year haha. I think the equal balance between the 3 components is important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w_robin Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Yeah, that's what will happen this year. I'm just explaining my frustration with last year haha. I think the equal balance between the 3 components is important. Why should it be equal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All_nighter05 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 I think it emphasizes the whole well-balanced applicant thing. Successful applicants would either be well-balanced across the chart (GPA-VR-CASPer), or they could make up a poor component with a stronger component (ex. Weak GPA, Strong VR). With a ~50% weight on the CASPer, the other components had an undeservingly (word?) lower impact on your chances. I didn't apply last year, so this isn't a personal rant. Just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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