Hi everyone, I'm currently in my final year of my degree and most likely at this point not going to pursue a fifth year or a masters. I have been in a lab for a year and am currently completing my thesis there after being a paid summer student. With applications mostly finished I am getting worried about having plans lined up for next summer in the likely event that I don't get into med. My lab doesn't hire fourth year thesis students back for the summer after graduation except for a few exceptions, and I was hoping to branch out this year anyways. I was wondering if it is worth it to apply to UofT summer programs like SURP without knowing if I will be in med school or not next September. Many of my friends who ended up on gap years are unemployed, and I feel like having this position could help me delay unemployment by giving me some time to apply for jobs while building experience and getting paid. Though if I do get in, it would be too late to back out at that point and spend the summer relaxing and doing something fun. Has anyone else been in this situation? Thanks.

I had to withdraw from a course this semester, leaving me with 4 courses. I plan to take 6 next semester to compensate.

Is it ok if one of my 4 courses this semester is pass/fail? I can’t seem to find anything about this online, but I’m worried it’ll affect my chances next cycle for any of the Ontario med schools, Alberta schools, McGill, or UBC.

I have to decide by midnight tonight whether or not to change a course from P/F to graded. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

I'm a grade 12 student who wants to study medicine and is looking at premed courses to apply to in the next couple of weeks, and I am a bit confused on what to choose as my options. So far I've looked at health sciences and life sciences at Mac; what exactly is the difference between the two and which one is "better"? What other schools offer similar programs?

Ok this is my first time writing essays for medical schools, but my 250 word essay is only sitting at 1648 characters. So if I am polishing can I go up to 2000 characters which is around 280 words for my essay or should I keep it at 250 and 1648 characters?

Hi. I’m a first year student at an Ontario university. I know this might sound really stupid but I had some concerns and questions. It’s been really hard adjusting to university life and my grades have dropped significantly compared high school (I went to a public school in a suburban area and it wasn’t inflated) and I know this is a universal experience for everyone. My dream medical school is UofT and I know they weigh GPA really high and I fear that I might not have chance. Any advice? Tysm in advanced.

Hi everyone.

I wanted to ask if there is anyone else that has had negative experiences at Trinity School of Medicine regarding their education there and just how the school has handled things, in unjust and unfair ways?

Me personally, I would NOT recommend Trinity SOM, located in both Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Warner Robins, Georgia. They have become extremely fraudulent, with a decrease in passing scores for first term students these past three terms. This has resulted in many students, sometimes more than half the classes, repeating courses and full terms all over again. And also, good luck filing grievances with the school because they do not take all their grievances from students seriously.

Some of what Trinity SOM advertises on their website, social media platforms, and intake information for incoming students is not promised. Please avoid this place and recommend your family and friends to avoid Trinity SOM, because this institution does not know what they are doing, and many faculty members have even left the school because of this.

I am sad to say that they have broken my trust, and I do not want anyone else to go through what I have endured at this establishment.

Hey everyone,

Kind of an angsty question but do you remember the order of the questions. Was self directed learning the third question, and social accountability the fourth question?

Only asking because I copied and pasted in a rush and just want to see if I screwed up big time haha

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Hi everyone, I'll get right into it.

Undergrad GPA (Hsp in Biochemistry) overall: 3.41

• 1st year 3.8
• 2nd year 3.94
• 3rd year 3.69
• 4th year 2.22

MCAT: 129/128/128/126

Some lab experiences (no publications to show for it), No clinical experience

Always had some issues with mental health and family conflict, but conditions worsened. Basically went clinically insane from the years 2022-2023, and I'm still trying to repair the damages that did to my personal/academic & professional life.
Currently in a 1 year HealthSci Master's program. Took a break from the medapp process because writing about being extremely depressed feels very disingenuous but I can't skip around it. I'm getting back into the application stuff and I'm looking into my options, but I just thought I'd post my dilemma here in case anyone's feeling generous with advice. Much appreciated, thank you :)

Hey guys, I just finished my ABS for Western. When I got to the last page, I got this confirmation (first pic). But, after reloading the page, it took me back to this page (second pic). Should I resubmit? Or am I good?

I've emailed TMU to ask this question myself but I've heard they take a long time to reply and I'm on a tight time crunch with WES as I've also heard those evaluations take a long time.

Someone else on here got this reply from TMU about international transcripts "if you have met the requirements in your Canadian degrees, you are not required to submit a WES evaluation, however, official transcripts are required for each university, college, CEGEP, junior college, graduate school or other postsecondary institution you currently attend, previously attended or withdrew from. You must submit a separate transcript even if your home school transcript shows an exchange or transfer course, and regardless of whether the course of study is relevant to your application"

TBH I DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS!

I did my 4-year undergrad in Canada and that transcript has gone to OMSAS. I am currently doing a masters abroad but I'm in semester 1 right now and my transcript doesn't have any courses on it, it's basically empty. Can someone help me understand if they need a WES evaluation please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9RjZFP5jEs

(this is jokes only - don't take it seriously)

Just curious, is it okay to use “&” to save characters? Please let me know! Thank you

Okay I apologize because I know this has been asked a thousand times now. But did anyone actually email and check that it’s okay that we didn’t receive an email and that it’s just the final page that says it’s been submitted?

Hello everyone,

I am going to give Caspar for the first time and was wondering if you could kindly suggest caspar resources, questions and other suggestions? Thanks!

Good evening,

I have just recently turned 24 and have decided to go back to school. My mission is to become a doctor. I am primarily interested in family medicine, but will continue to assess my options as I continue through school (worried about automation of family med but I haven’t investigated this a lot).

I am starting a BSc. What I am wondering is:

Will my prior (2020) coursework and GPA (not too horrible, maybe ~82%AVG/45credits) have a large impact on my chances of getting in? For added context, I intend on doing a full new degree, which will have very few non-science electives. If I average 90% during the 4yr degree will my prior courses in the unrelated field weigh everything down?

If it helps as well, I live in western Canada, and have bounced between the Fraser valley and Calgary. The med schools I intend on applying to are UBC, SFU (if it’s done by then), UofA and UofC.

Secondly, I am currently enrolled at a university which isn’t heavily involved in research. If I have a lot of f/t work experience and volunteer experience, will that compensate for lack of research on my ECs? Am I better off going to a bigger school, where there are more opportunities?

Thank you for your time.

HAHA cant wait to do this again next year

Is anyone’s status still stuck on “application submitted?” I know a few who’s changed to “application complete; being reviewed by admissions.” I submitted mine October 1st.

I recently applied for McGill as an international applicant (US undergrad). I'm wondering what are my odds of getting an interview as I agreed to interview in French if necessary and would need to start prepping now if it's a real possibility. I chose English as preferred language but said French is also okay.

uGPA 3.98; three publications, none first author, a bunch of research experience; 180 clinical volunteering hours, 360 nonclinical volunteering hours, two leadership positions (club leadership and resident assistant, both multi-year), CASPER result is still pending. I also have a graduate degree (MS) and attended a summer program in Québec.

Any information would be helpful. Thank you!

do we need a verifier for this statement?? trying to decide what to write about!

The question “what was the activity, your role in the activity and what level did you achieve?” Do we have to give our 150 character description or just say the title??

I have been working on a few research projects and am expecting to have 2-3 systematic reviews published (3rd author for all 3). I was wondering if this is a red flag since it is all. i have contributed a good amount, with screening and the writing and the reason for the 3rd authorship is cause it is with 2 grad students who've taken the lead.

I was just wondering if having that many systematic review pubs as not 1st author is kind of a red flag and a bad thing cause it seems like fluff even tho it honestly wasn't. I did contribute a lot and spent a lot of time on the projects and am happy they will be published but don't know if it looks bad cause im not 1st author and its bad to have this many pubs as undergrad.

i've also heard that scoping and systematic reviews are seen as fluff research and not really good pubs but idk if that is true. looking for any opinions and thoughts!

i'm going to bed.

i'm so done with this.

Does anyone know if we can use activities that are related to school/ a research project that was required for a class?

Thanks!!

I graduated from a bachelor's in Software Engineering with a GPA of 3.81/4.3 . I completed CEGEP in French in Montreal and have all my prerequisites for medicine.

Throughout my studies, I have had an upward trajectory and amassed some ECs like working part-time, leading capstone projects, being a TA and exchange semesters. I currently am working as a Data Engineer for a top Quebecois Aerospace company, and I'm planning to volunteer and shadow physicians during this year as to get more exposure to the medical field.

I calculated my McGill Medecine GPA with their workbook and it came out to a 3.72 GPA. I know my stats are not the best and that I come from a non-traditional background, but my dream has always been becoming a doctor, I just wasn't able to pursue it before.

Assuming I get a strong casper, what are my chances of making it into McGill, UdeS or UdeM ? Should I go back to school and get another degree ? Could I make it as is ?

Has anyones GPA been released on OMSAS yet?

Once again, freaking out (likely paranoid) that copy and pasting is going to flag me for using AI or something. I didn't use anything, just copy and pasting from the document that I have been working on. What do we think? I've already submitted most of the essays, so fingers crossed lol

They changed the website once again.. Looks like you can no longer explain your exceptional circumstances for having a low gpa below 3.3.

Thoughts?

Edit: presidents thoughts on this

https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2024/11/creating-new-kind-med-school/

So as the title says, I’m currently in grade 12 and in the process of applying for universities. I’m hoping to eventually go to med school so I’ve been looking into life sci and health sci programs. However, I’m well aware that there is no such thing as a “premed” program in Canada. So I’m not gonna ask what the best undergrad program is if I wanna go into med. I would like to ask any current med students, what undergrad program did you do? I’ve only looked into health sci and life sci programs but maybe there are other common undergrad programs that I’m unaware of. I’m trying to explore my options for undergrad before I actually finalize where I’m going to apply.

My pops got locked up 6+ years ago and wanted to talk about that