I'm starting this topic for those who are applying to 2nd-entry programs, to start in 2014.
A bit about myself:
I'll be applying to University of Ottawa and University of Toronto.
Graduated with a Social Science degree from Ottawa U w/ 7.2 CGPA (aka 3.33 on 4.0 scale, or a B+)
A lot of community involvement in health promotion, youth counseling programs, women's health research..
Currently taking the prerequisites...
I'm kind of nervous about the applications because I know how competitive these programs are... Any advice from current 2-year BScN students would be great!
vxd4722 it's brutal. I think I for sure would have gotten into Mac, however, I don't think I would have gotten into Western anyway. They did accept a screenshot of my final grades to go off of and I still wasn't at an 86. I'm waitlisted for the Collaborative program - hoping to just get in and do year 1 and reapply. It really is irritating.... as if they only have 64 spots. I think that is absolutely ridiculous. I really do not want to go to school for another 4 years and spend all that money.
[COLOR=#003366]lalalene my sGPA is 3.5 (B+) and my last 10.0 full credits (20 classes) GPA is only a 3.1 (76%). I don't expect to get into U of T now that I see how high the cutoffs were. I wish I had known - they shouldn't even put that you can get in with a minimum B+ GPA because obviously that is NOT the case. Their cutoff on the website should be an A so that people don't even bother applying lol. It's kinda BS. Anyway.... I guess I'll see what happens next. Next year I'm going to apply to a bunch of other programs too so I don't run into this again - I have no idea if re-taking a couple courses would even bring my GPA to an A+. That's a large jump.
libs4- yeah I don't think I would have gotten into Western either (that 86 cutoff is NUTS), but I think I for sure could have gotten into Trent if they had accepted my unofficial grades.
lalalene- I think the average that Western rejected me from was about 9.8 on the 12 point GPA scale but my final grades would have bumped that up to around a 10.6 (between an A- and an A), although that probably still wouldn't have been enough for the 86 cutoff!
No.... still pending for U of T. I really don't know why, I don't think my grades compare to some people's that are still waiting. Having said that, I did have great references and a good application and experience. I also don't know if u of t looks at your last year, your last 2 years, or your full 4 years. Anyone know? My final year I had a gpa of 9.6 on the 12 point scale, or around a 3.6. I'll let you know first thing when I receive an e-mail from them.
I will let you know immediately if I hear anything on my end. I am not sure about what UofT looks at. I thought from their website it was just the last year gpa and they prefer degree holders and ppl with a good sup app.
Congrats!!!! As much as I am jealous I am very happy for you. In addition, hearing of for acceptance to UofT gives those of us still waiting a little bit of hope to hold onto, so thank you :)
Hi everyone! I was called today by Western University to offer me a place after I had been on the wait list! I will be accepting, which means that a place will be opening at Lakehead if anyone's waiting there. As for my GPA, I'm not really sure how they calculated it as i took BIOL 235 after my degree was completed, meaning I don't know which courses they used for the remainder of the calculation of last 10 courses. I would the GPA western would have calculated would have been between 83 and 86 percent though.
@finger crossed. Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE private message me your marks from the last two years and what institution you took them at and I will figure out the GPA for you???? I am on the wait list and am trying to figure out where they are in terms of percentages??
Or has anyone else been accepted off of the Western wait list and knows their percentage? I know that as they call people off of the wait list the average will go down so I am just trying to see where they are on the list...
I should also add, that my offer was good until noon tomorrow (about a 24 hour period from when I got the call). So assuming these spots opened up from people who decline their offers on the 13th, that should give an idea of when the next possible wave of offers will go out.
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vxd4722 it's brutal. I think I for sure would have gotten into Mac, however, I don't think I would have gotten into Western anyway. They did accept a screenshot of my final grades to go off of and I still wasn't at an 86. I'm waitlisted for the Collaborative program - hoping to just get in and do year 1 and reapply. It really is irritating.... as if they only have 64 spots. I think that is absolutely ridiculous. I really do not want to go to school for another 4 years and spend all that money.
[COLOR=#003366]lalalene my sGPA is 3.5 (B+) and my last 10.0 full credits (20 classes) GPA is only a 3.1 (76%). I don't expect to get into U of T now that I see how high the cutoffs were. I wish I had known - they shouldn't even put that you can get in with a minimum B+ GPA because obviously that is NOT the case. Their cutoff on the website should be an A so that people don't even bother applying lol. It's kinda BS. Anyway.... I guess I'll see what happens next. Next year I'm going to apply to a bunch of other programs too so I don't run into this again - I have no idea if re-taking a couple courses would even bring my GPA to an A+. That's a large jump.