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  1. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Got waitlisted (#12) for McMaster interviews, 3.83 sGPA
  2. Owl.on.a.Slide
    I think so. Someone with a 3.82 didn't get an interview last year. EDIT: apparently 2 years ago someone got an interview with a 3.73 and someone with a 3.75 didn't, so maybe it's not 100% automatic. But I haven't heard of anyone getting in with less than a 3.84 last year, and it's probably safe to assume that it will be even higher this year.
  3. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Your subGPA is a bit on the lower side, but you could have a chance for both. Someone last year got into UofT with a subGPA slightly higher than yours, less volunteer hours and similar research experience (it was very focused on speech - maybe that gave them an edge). But it's hard to tell now that they are not counting volunteer hours/clinical reference letters at all. Grades probably have much more weight now. As for Western, it seems a bit random. They waitlisted applicants with all sorts of subGPAs (from ~3.5 to 3.9 if I'm not wrong) but your experience seems very well rounded so you might have a chance. But this is all just based on last year's admissions, so who knows if their admission criteria will be the same...all we can do is hope!
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    Where did you apply?
  5. Owl.on.a.Slide
    That's code for "we screwed up"
  6. Owl.on.a.Slide
    The bottom is the one that the schools will use. Not sure if they consider the overall GPA at all (I hope not lol)
  7. Owl.on.a.Slide
    It's very unfortunate, and there is no mention of this additional requirement on the ORPAS guide, which is where I reviewed the requirements this year. Still, I blame myself for not being thorough! Do you have another course that might satisfy the requirement? For you and anyone else having the same issue with KINE 2011, I just contacted the department at McMaster and they told me that they will look at the applicant's transcript to see if there is a suitable substitution. So I might still have a chance ?
  8. Owl.on.a.Slide
    It seemed accurate, it matched my own calculations
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    I don't think it'll be an issue. Here is something I posted last year: From my understanding they will count every course individually up to your oldest half credit, and for that half credit they will group and average grades of an entire year if you took more than 1 course (probably because how can they choose which course to pick if you took multiple courses at the same time?). So let's say you took 19 half credits in the last two years, they will need to go back one more semester. If in that semester you took more than 1 course, they will average the gpa of the entire year (they combine fall and winter) I may be wrong because it can get confusing, but this is what happened in my situation. I took 3 half credit courses in 3 different semesters in 2020. They were not grouped, but counted individually. However, when they summed up all the courses I took after graduating to those taken in my undergrad to reach 20 half credits, they still had to take half a credit from my 3rd undergrad year, where I had an awful average. So for my oldest half credit they used the average of that year It's a bit of a mess but I hope it helps
  10. Owl.on.a.Slide
    I had no clue about KINE2011 either, and I ended up including it as the prerequisite for McMaster. I just assumed it was accepted since every other school does. And I thought it was a good idea to include it in the prerequisites because it was fairly difficult and I got an A+. I even took ANAT100 Online at Queens which is included in the approved courses, but that course was a joke compared to KINE2011. And in ANAT100 we barely covered any "areas relevant to SLP", it's literally something that you can learn in a few hours or less (some superficial info on oral cavity structures and larynx as part of the digestive & respiratory system). It's just silly. Oh well, it was a long shot for me anyway, I guess I just donated 100 bucks to McMaster ?
  11. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Hi everyone, has anyone who's applying to Western noticed something weird with the prerequisites? It says half credit for human anatomy/physiology but it lets you enter more than one.
  12. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Hey! Did anyone from last year write down what the sGPA cut off was to get an interview at McMaster? I managed to get my sGPA to 3.83 (3rd time applying, first time it was 3.3 ?) and I'm wondering if it's worth trying...
  13. Owl.on.a.Slide
    I think it's stuck at the very first part of the 2nd quadrant . Time to make a 2022 thread lol.
  14. Owl.on.a.Slide
    This is from the application guide: "ORPAS does not separate semesters, and so if an average must be used, it is from the fall and winter durations combined, as this is considered an academic year" They are so cruel ?
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    justspeechy1 was in the first quadrant if I'm not wrong! I made an excel file with everyone who shared their waitlist quadrant (I know, creepy lol). So still 1st quadrant ?
  16. Owl.on.a.Slide
    I guess 0.11 is still a good bump but it does still seem a bit low and unfortunately applicants' sGPAs are only going to get higher...McMaster is definitely not an option. For Western and UofT, not sure how your volunteering/research experience is, but you'd probably need a stellar one to have a slim chance. But it is still a bit of a gamble as you won't know how much your volunteering will improve your application, and I have a feeling that UofT might do the same they did last year and disregard volunteering experience, so sGPA will weigh more. If you have the means and you really want to get in, it may be worth it to do a second degree...I know it seems daunting and a waste of time/resources, but you'll have the opportunity to get a lot of high grades and fresh references from profs. I wish I had done that 4-5 years ago instead of taking a million courses here and there! Or I guess you could try CDA, but it won't improve your sGPA so it might not help too much except down the road if you have thousands of hours of experience... Not the most ideal solutions, it really sucks
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    What school is that if you don't mind sharing? I'm so sorry you went through this. It would utterly outrage me. Same grade if you got a 60 and a 100? And what about people like you that get incredibly penalized for their master's applications? Come on...
  18. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Congrats!!! Still in the first quadrant in mid-May ?
  19. Owl.on.a.Slide
    From my understanding the grouping thing only applies to your "oldest" courses if they need to take some credits from a semester where you took more than 1 course (probably because how can they choose which course to pick for the average?). So let's say you took 19 half credits in the last two years, they will need to go back one more semester. If in that semester you took more than 1 course, they will average the gpa of the entire semester. I may be wrong because it can get confusing, but this is what happened in my situation. I took 3 half courses in 3 different semesters in 2020. They were not grouped, but counted individually. However, when they summed up all the courses I took after graduating to those taken in my undergrad to reach 20 half credits, they still had to take half a credit from my 3rd undergrad year, where I had an awful average. So for my oldest half credit they used the average of that semester (which killed my subGPA ?) Hope it helps
  20. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Oh wow so they didn't even make it past the first quadrant...I really hope that those left in the first quadrant will hear good news as those few people that are on another waitlist accept somewhere else later in the summer, it must be a torture to be almost there. Thank you so much for sending the email, at least I got some closure.
  21. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Is anyone in Toronto/GTA leaving a volunteer position that would need to be filled?
  22. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Yes for now it seems to be only first quadrant, hopefully towards the end. It's possible that 7-8 people got off the waitlist this week. Assuming that the first quadrant should have a lot of good candidates that maybe were accepted elsewhere, if they don't get to the second quadrant soon it means that the quadrants are huge I'm in the 3rd and I'm very close to giving up hope.
  23. Owl.on.a.Slide
    It's not looking good and the FB group already has 32 members, if we consider that some who got accepted may not have joined the group, the class is probably almost full...
  24. Owl.on.a.Slide
    I have in the email where I asked about the quadrant but she didn’t address that. So I guess they don’t want to tell us!
  25. Owl.on.a.Slide
    Sorry, I absolutely didn't mean anything negative with my comment, I was just saying that after reading your post I'm going to start being hopeful while I had accepted not getting in since I'm in the third quadrant And being hopeful for months only led to disappointment, which still does not mean that a part of me doesn't hope to still have a shot. So I am thankful for what you wrote. Sorry for the misunderstanding! I only mentioned the different waitlist size because in previous posts others mentioned waitlists of 50-100 applicants, which could explain why sometimes applicants that were in the 2nd quadrant never made it to the program?
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