The Life of a Pre-med Flow Chart: Answers to "What are my chances??" threads

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I made a flow chart for Canadian medical schools on premed101 [I'm user: register] and I have decided that SDN can use this useful flow chart I made too. Just replace the name of the Canadian Schools with the American equivalent, and scale the grading to the American system and everything should run the same way. Enjoy

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To the Mods: I'm sorry I made a double post on the WAMC subsection, could you please delete that.
 
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Thanks for posting! It was entertaining.
 
um HOLY CRAP!
 
According to this chart, I guess a 3.5 is considered bad grade and you need to go back to school to improve your grade ...lol😱
 
Holy Crap. That was a work of art. I just read the whole thing.

I especially liked "Nature, Science? O RLY?" and constantly changing your opinion between the interview going great or terrible.
 
bigyihoroi said:
According to this chart, I guess a 3.5 is considered bad grade and you need to go back to school to improve your grade ...lol😱
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But isn't the Canadian GPA system slightly different?
 
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bigyihoroi said:
According to this chart, I guess a 3.5 is considered bad grade and you need to go back to school to improve your grade ...lol😱
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Canadian GPA's are really different. A 3.5 there is a lower performance than our U.S. 3.0.

OMSAS GPA System:
4.0 = 90%-100%
3.9 = 85%-89%
3.7 = 80%-84%
3.3 = 77-79%
3.0 = 73%-76%
2.7 = 70%-72%
 
HumidBeing said:
Canadian GPA's are really different. A 3.5 there is a lower performance than our U.S. 3.0.

OMSAS GPA System:
4.0 = 90%-100%
3.9 = 85%-89%
3.7 = 80%-84%
3.3 = 77-79%
3.0 = 73%-76%
2.7 = 70%-72%
Click to expand...

WTF, mate?

That explains a few things.
 
Haha, that was awesome.:laugh:
 
really!!! a 3.5 canadian GPA is < 3.0 U.S. GPA...that's sick...makes me wanna hug uncle sam now
 
bigyihoroi said:
really!!! a 3.5 canadian GPA is < 3.0 U.S. GPA...that's sick...makes me wanna hug uncle sam now
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Well, Canadian grades and American grades do not equal each other. You have to remember Canadian schools grade differently too. Most classes have a median in the mid-60's, whereas in the US, a 60 is considered a fail.

The GPA scale given is converted to be equivalent to the U.S., whereas the percentage grades will be different.
 
Beautiful
 
nicely done, worth my time.
 
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HumidBeing said:
Canadian GPA's are really different. A 3.5 there is a lower performance than our U.S. 3.0.

OMSAS GPA System:
4.0 = 90%-100%
3.9 = 85%-89%
3.7 = 80%-84%
3.3 = 77-79%
3.0 = 73%-76%
2.7 = 70%-72%
Click to expand...

Remember that this is only OMSAS. (AKA eastern canada)
In the west, where i go to school, an A and A+ are both 4.0
 
Yeehaw buddy. Great job.

Got a chuckle or two out of me here at work. 👍
 
lol...its the funniest thread I've seen all day.

That flow chart is intense.

haha..if you got a 45T, you are an automatic 'troll' ......lol
 
Amazing! Why the fourier transform?
 
HumidBeing said:
Canadian GPA's are really different. A 3.5 there is a lower performance than our U.S. 3.0.

OMSAS GPA System:
4.0 = 90%-100%
3.9 = 85%-89%
3.7 = 80%-84%
3.3 = 77-79%
3.0 = 73%-76%
2.7 = 70%-72%
Click to expand...



Except that most class averages are around a 60% or a C. Just as importantly, after four years of university up here, I haven't been in many classes where more than 2-3 people got higher than 90%, but quite a few where nobody did (and a few were I was the only one). Trust me, the system is the same, which is why AMCAS equalizes our A's to be worth the same as yours.
 
'O RLY?'
'YA RLY! SUPER!!'

:laugh:
 
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Okay, who wants to type this up in C++ so we can just a run a program and get the answers?
 
That is one hell of a flow chart!
 
I'm not sure where American Secondaries fit in the whole scheme of things. I suppose it'll be another step in between application and interviews.
 
lol i like the troll part.
 
Excellent chart!

o rly?

yes rly!!!🙂
 
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Not only am i impressed with how detailed it is, I'm also impressed that you spent that much time at it.
 
holy cow, that is awesome 😀
 
ORLY?
YA RLY, SUPER!


retake MCAT
And...@#$!

LMAO man that was good. props.
 
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