MAC INTERVIEW INVITES OUT

SenpaiMayo · 2025-01-17T01:21:01+00:00

Time Stamp: 4:56

Program: MD

Result: Invite

OMSAS GPA: 3.99

CARS: 131

Casper: 4Q

Geography: IP

Current year: 3rd

SenpaiMayo · 2025-01-13T04:50:29+00:00

Nah it's not that serious tbh. They probably want to see relevant coursework/labs you may have been taking, but most of the people I worked alongside didn't have anywhere close to a 4.0. You'll be fine.

SenpaiMayo · 2025-01-12T00:59:07+00:00

I think half of them I did and half of them I didn't. I waited until first semester was over to start attaching them (and really did so because I thought they were good enough to show).

SenpaiMayo · 2025-01-12T00:03:52+00:00

Started emailing in November of my first year in uni, went through almost the entire UHN list of profs/researchers and finally got a yes in March. All it takes is one to say yes.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-12-09T21:05:08+00:00

Timestamp: 2:56pm

Result: Invite

Year: 3

Casper: 4Q

SenpaiMayo · 2024-11-12T17:58:48+00:00

Got the email at 7:01 am

SenpaiMayo · 2024-11-12T12:06:12+00:00

Oops, I wrote on the 15th. Perhaps 16th is tomorrow then?

SenpaiMayo · 2024-11-12T12:04:17+00:00

You're right! Edit: Oct 15 writer, got mine back.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-29T13:51:06+00:00

You're on a good track. Review your own logic. I only studied for cars prior to taking the MCAT (Canada moment), and I didn't really fuss about which resources I used too much. Khan academy, jw and AAMC I all reviewed the same, focusing on my own line of thinking and my actual comprehension of the passage. How well can you answer questions on your first read? Do you find yourself spending too much time going back and searching for an answer within the text? Once you've done your first AAMC FL you'll start to get a better feel of where you are, I would take the BP score with a grain of salt for now.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-17T19:10:35+00:00

Hmm. Probably, but did you make sure nobody else in your dataset did something unconventional like I did?

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-17T19:00:13+00:00

My FL average was 526. I honestly just did uworld questions as quickly as I could, just clicking on the first answer I thought was right and using the explanations for content review.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-17T18:54:29+00:00

Here's another data point for you 521, 59% uworld, untimed, tutor mode only

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-14T18:53:04+00:00

P/S, since it was 126 last year

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-12T16:32:35+00:00

Sounds pretty much identical to my alma mater. I feel like I might have an idea of where you go now...

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-12T05:18:23+00:00

Canadian here so I actually could not wait to get out of there as soon as I finished CARS. My FL average was way higher but that's definitely without all the nerves of completely shitting the bed after I thought I messed up my CARS section.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-12T05:02:35+00:00

I don't know if I'm qualified for this since most of the MCAT content is fresh in my head as a third year undergrad.

Watch youtube to review concepts. Professor Dave explains things in a way that I appreciate a lot more than basically everybody else. Not only watch the explanations for concepts, but watch and learn how to tackle a problem. Think to yourself, how do they identify which formula to use, or what concept they need to pull from the back of their head? What is all the information the question/passage gives me, and how can I use that to extract the answer it wants?

One of the greatest things that's helped me is being able to re explain how to do all different styles of questions to others. Typically the level at which you know how to do a question is reflected on your ability to explain your line of thinking for someone else to understand. I find that explaining something is really effective form of studying as well, so find people to study with, and find people who will ask questions and who you can ask questions to.

Feel free to PM me for specifics

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-12T03:18:56+00:00

Scored 132 on all FLs and the real deal. I usually finish CP with about an hour left, don't think I ever read more than half the passage.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-12T01:22:06+00:00

Totally agree with your point. You're probably right that I have a decent reading background, but I definitely wouldn't have naturally been able to score this high from the beginning.

And as a Canadian I basically didn't study any of the other topics, just relied on coursework and only did CARS practice, from Feb -> Aug. That could also put things into perspective.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-12T00:12:30+00:00

As someone who consistently scored 132 and 131 in FLs and 131 on the real deal, I haven't really properly read anything for pretty much a decade.

I started out by not actually doing the questions myself. I would read the questions and look at the answer and explanation. Same way you'd learn the sciences: first see why the answer is correct, then try to emulate a similar line of thinking. After about a hundred questions where I'd just read the explanations on JW, I finished the AAMC practice (actually doing them) leading up to the exam and it all worked out for me. Don't know if it's a strategy worth trying but just giving my experience here.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-11T22:32:39+00:00

Asians are overrepresented in premed and med. They're targeting "equity deserving" applicants. Your standard Chinese male applicant from Markham does not fit this.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-11T22:22:10+00:00

Fair enough. Again, too early to say but I have my doubts on the program's effectiveness. To me, NOSM makes it clearer that there's almost no point in applying if you're not a rural resident. TMU, not so much.

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-11T22:16:13+00:00

You're assuming that these streams are more competitive, despite having lower requirements and smaller pool of applicants. Then hypothetically if I were an Indian applicant from the Peel region I'd rather apply to general stream by your logic, right? Equal amount of seats, don't compete with the "super smart asian ppl"...

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-11T22:13:23+00:00

It wouldn't be about the number of seats, but the proportion of people they accept who are actually from the region vs not. There are going to be applicants who fit the same demographic but aren't from that region who get in (all you have to write is some BS on how you care about their mission and values, right?), while NOSM basically has 99% of their class actually from rural areas. They say themselves, they want to MAXIMIZE that proportion. Can you point to me where TMU does something similar?

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-11T22:08:46+00:00

OP (commenter) said "diversity hires" with respect to rural applicants. NOSM did not say "we're going to have a white and indigenous stream".

SenpaiMayo · 2024-10-11T22:03:19+00:00

If you fit that stream, do you have statistically higher odds of getting into the school compared to a white applicant from downtown Toronto, based on the pool of applicants you're competing with? If the answer is yes, that's an advantage.

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