costar Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Hey Guys now that interviews are over, how do you think your interviews went and any thoughts on how you will rank? Feel free to comment on what your top choice school is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costar Posted February 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 BTW guys please post truthfully. Hopefully this will help people make their ranking decisions/chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactic Folly Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 There needs to be an eastern-centric counterpart to this poll... I like how McGill/Dal/MUN are all lumped together at the end It goes without saying that this shouldn't affect anyone's ranking decisions - go in order of preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 There needs to be an eastern-centric counterpart to this poll... I like how McGill/Dal/MUN are all lumped together at the end It goes without saying that this shouldn't affect anyone's ranking decisions - go in order of preference. particularly with McGill holding so many spots Still this poll shouldn't really impact anyone's choices. Your optimal plan is to just pick what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeowsoft Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 With most schools interviewing anywhere between 1:6-1:10 number of students, I wonder what is the chance of people getting their 1st program choice is in radiology. Has anyone found this on the CaRMS website? Also, I was curious what happens if lets say if: You get only 1 acceptance spot in the least desirable program out of 10 interviews and ranked this school last. Had you ranked this school 1st you might have had a chance but each time the Algorithm goes through people's choices one at a time, from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, you might have lost out on getting ranked because someone ranking it higher would have match before you. Can the algorithm not be likened to 10 rounds of musical chairs in this case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooty Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 from what i gather it doesn't work that way. if you're next on the school's rank list, you will match to that school if you do not match to other schools higher on your list. in other words, if that school ranks you in the top X, where X is their number of spots, you will 100% match if you ranked that school at all. and what do you guys think of the knowledge testing questions from some schools? one school in particular laid it on thick. i thought it was fair but i still got a beating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costar Posted February 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Hmm this is what I've been told as well tooty. I also wondered about this because your match depends on where other people ahead of you go. If it is a turn based match system then there is the possibility of you not matching because you put too many reach schools high in your rank (as per the simulation). But if the website accounts for this some how then you'd be safe - I don't know how the algorithm would do this though... Pls enlighten us if you are math savvy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costar Posted February 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 from what i gather it doesn't work that way. if you're next on the school's rank list, you will match to that school if you do not match to other schools higher on your list. in other words, if that school ranks you in the top X, where X is their number of spots, you will 100% match if you ranked that school at all. and what do you guys think of the knowledge testing questions from some schools? one school in particular laid it on thick. i thought it was fair but i still got a beating. I felt this as well. UBC, McGill, Western all did this and I wonder if they are objectively scoring us using academics the same as subjective factors. If this were true, I feel people on surgery or just did their radiology electives have an advantage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watermelon7 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Hmm this is what I've been told as well tooty. I also wondered about this because your match depends on where other people ahead of you go. If it is a turn based match system then there is the possibility of you not matching because you put too many reach schools high in your rank (as per the simulation). But if the website accounts for this some how then you'd be safe - I don't know how the algorithm would do this though... Pls enlighten us if you are math savvy! i dont think its based on "turn" from what i understand lets say you rank 6 places and carms has exhausted your first 5 choices then it looks at your 6th. suppose the 6th school is already "tentatively" full then it will look at the tentative people already matched and look at how you compare to those people on the schools ROL. then if you are higher than just one of those tentative people then you would take their spot. thats my understanding at least, if this isnt right then feel free to chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargaze Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 looks like UofT gunners are surpassing UBC ones this year!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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