Interview Invitations Are OUT!!!! Accepted/Rejected

[gks7]

Just joined to share my stats for you guys to get more info about the scoring.

First time applying. Grad student at UBC. Had only 2 classes with marks in grad school at time of application.
****ty undergrad...


AGPA: 78.45
AQ:11.51
NAQ: 27.48

TFR 38.99

Will see what happens with Queens and other grad-student beneficial schools and figure out what to do with that brutally low AQ.

Good luck to all those who haven't received regrets yet and to those who did, we'll try harder and make it somewhere eventually

[iwh333]

i'm sorry to hear about the rejects guys. the scale they used is the same as last year according to the interm stats, so i'm not too surprised at the scaling.

[Room_Temperature]

the fact that the school is quantifying EC's is really bugging me. Why does everything have to be numbers? Sure it is easier to sort and rank the applications, but not everything, especially EC's, can be quantified in a meaningful way. I thought the application fees were for compensating admissions for the time and effort in evaluating my application. I would appreciate it if they could look at it for what it truly is, without the need to convert everything to a meaningless number

[jwl3566]

Originally Posted by keepontrying

I think it's pretty clear that masters would not help you much for UBC under the new system. However, since they look at your overall gpa, you have to take quite a number of courses to see any meaningful gpa boost.

hmm,
wonder what i should do then, give up on UBC..?
lol this sucks

[ubc_student]

Here are my sister's stats:
NAQ: 26.67---dropped a lot from last year where she was well above average even though she picked up two more significant volunteer activities
AQ: 33.63 (OGA=85.09)
TFR=60.30

Missed the cutoff by 0.19.
She is more angry than devastated.
I don't think she'll be applying again.

[Prateek]

Originally Posted by Room_Temperature

the fact that the school is quantifying EC's is really bugging me. Why does everything have to be numbers? Sure it is easier to sort and rank the applications, but not everything, especially EC's, can be quantified in a meaningful way. I thought the application fees were for compensating admissions for the time and effort in evaluating my application. I would appreciate it if they could look at it for what it truly is, without the need to convert everything to a meaningless number

Likely all school use this sort of system to rank applicants. It's just that some universities like Calgary, Alberta or UBC are more transparent than others

[Dr.Henderson]

Originally Posted by FMX

You have amazing persistence. I hope you are doing you're second undergrad in something useful just incase.

Thanks. Yeah its communications, so it only augments my CV with my BSc and MSc. My wife works at the university so tuition is free, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it. Now I just have to make the time commitment pay off.

[keepontrying]

Originally Posted by ubc_student

Here are my sister's stats:
NAQ: 26.67---dropped a lot from last year where she was well above average even though she picked up two more significant volunteer activities
AQ: 33.63 (OGA=85.09)
TFR=60.30

Missed the cutoff by 0.19.
She is more angry than devastated.
I don't think she'll be applying again.

NAQ is like that. It fluctuates quite abit for no good reasons. I think she should reapply given that she's so close and you never know what she'll get next year for her NAQ.

[*Pixie*]

Dr. Walker (the director of admissions at the UofC) stated in his podcast that one of the recent studies has shown that the average income of families that the admitted students come from...is about $160K (or something close to that). If my mommy and daddy were making that kind of dough I would be travelling the world like there is no tomorrow, playing hockey, building shelters in Jamaica during summer instead of working ... and getting 45/50 on my NAQ.

I respect the fact that the UofC at least acknowledged this and stated that they are changing their evaluation system to select applicants based on merit, rather than financial privileges.

My heart goes out to all of you guys who work so hard and maintain good grades at the same time. I wish it was a level playing field for all of us. But I strongly feel that UBC is one of those "elitist" schools.

[Genemo]

Originally Posted by Dr.Henderson

Thanks. Yeah its communications, so it only augments my CV with my BSc and MSc. My wife works at the university so tuition is free, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it. Now I just have to make the time commitment pay off.

Will second degree really pull up GPA that much?
We probably have ~120 credits by the time we graduate from the 1st degree. Usually the second degree is 2 years long and I guess thats about 60 credits. With dropping the worst year from the first degree which is 30 credits, we are left with 90 credits from 1st degree and 60 credits with second degree. Say if the 1st degree GPA is 82%, to pull up it to 85% you need an average of almost 90% to make it.

And this is assuming the best situation. For me, my lowest year has only 12 credits and my total credit in my first degree is way higher than 120. Even a second degree of 92% wont help me that much.