Review Of The References

[TheApiarist]

So I've noticed an interesting question on UofC Amissions Blog. It hasn't been answered yet, but in case someone on here knows anything about this:

 

Is it true that application viewers would not be able to see who wrote the reference letter, to eliminate the risk of ‘prestige’ outweighing merit?

[itsalwayssunny]

That is true. Buuuut, one would assume that the admissions committee does see the information as to "why I chose this person as a reference". One can imagine that this would allude to the referee's role, but not their exact identity (e.g. former research supervisor, not "Dr. X winner of the Nobel Prize".

 

I'm going to go ahead and piggyback onto this with an additional question- which sections of UCAN are/are not actually seen by the time the app gets to the evaluators? For example, I noticed from a former saved application that a specific section highlighting the details of a variable work commitment wasn't on there, even though it was saved to UCAN.