Dwabtit

just email the graduate department and ask for a fee schedule or you can refer here, i think the visa fees is for international students
https://www.mcmaster.ca/bms/student/pdf/fees_grad.pdf

Just FYI, they dont monitor if anybody does these courses or not, they are just suggestions. However if you are planning on taking a lot of compsci courses and have no idea about coding, they do help. 
but for the mandatory compsci course, its alot different then what the online courses teach.

congrats that essentially means you are both in, the graduate department just formalizes the offers and makes sure all the documents you provided are legitimate (mostly just your transcript) be warned that even tough it says 10 days, it can take a while before you receive an official letter. Personally it took me about 3 weeks and some people had to wait a month or 1.5 months. The grad department is very very slow...
 

you guys should email. I think the only reason me musicfeak and bluejays heard back last week was because we were very presistent that we needed to know asap.
Just say you want to apply for a scholarship or you have something else to apply for. Someone posted on the results page that they were rejected i hope it wasn't any of us.

http://www.canadian-healthcare.org/ this is a good place to get the basics out of the way, you can also look ehealth ontario

http://www.canadian-healthcare.org/ this is a good place to get the basics out of the way, you can also look ehealth ontario

I haven't received an official offer yet so I wouldn't know, I just assumed that was the case...my bad  

Congrats buddy...let's hope you are right and we get the letters soon

Hopefully getting our letter today! I'm getting impatient since Queen's needs to know by today

Good luck to every body that has thier interview today please update and let us know how it went.
For the ppl still waiting for an offer let's see if Iris can keep her ptomise

I emailed Iris because I need to decide by April 1st (to let Queens know) and I told her I didn't want to decline queens without having an official letter from McMaster and she said she would make sure to send me one before April 1st (next Friday) so it should be coming to everyone else soon as well. 

You are probably right. The university wants to be sure for thesis candidates because thesis students get more money from university but also because McMaster is really research focused espically in healthcare.

If your goal is to stay in academia then go for uft but if you want to work in the field I think Mac has better relationships with empolyers I also spoke to some uft ppl in the program and they said that alot of the "placements" were non paid whereas at Mac only a few were unpaid. But uft has a better reputation abroad and in Canada outside Ontario. If I were in your situation I would go to uft just because thier program is shorter and I can be out working alot quicker

honestly i think that iris has your file on the desk but she left for the day.you will hear back on monday for sure. i am just kinda worried abt the grad office..i hope they dont create a problem. i am sure they wont but you know, your mind wonders.
 
Good luck to all of you...if anyone still hasn't done the interview and has questions let me know and i can help you out i still remember most of the questions

i applied to both of those as well...my gpa is between b+ to A depending on what courses they take into account(dont have the exact numbers on me at the moment) I didn't receive any communication. Mac said that they usually start sending out letters in mid feb and uft said early spring...so idk what means to be exact. I am hoping for MAC because of the longer internship and its close to me. I know mac extended their deadline three times. Jan 31 was the last one. Idk what that mean(hopefully it means they didn't get enough applications) LOL but yeah i dont think we will hear anything until 2-4 weeks. Its frustrating because there is not a lot of information out there about these program
 
did you hear anything? did u apply to the thesis or course based program at Mac?