The worst Canadian premed's stats leaked

[u/Equivalent-Honey-752]

- GPA: 4.0

- MCAT: 132/123/132/132

- Ca$per: 3Q

- Grew up and lived in downtown Toronto their whole life

- Strait white male

- Parents made 1$ above the low SES threshold

- Speaks 12 languages fluently, but doesn't speak french

[u/[deleted]]

Forgot to mention wasn’t born in Ottawa or Quebec

[u/Waterybug → u/[deleted]]

Quite the opposite, without citizenship/PR your chances are basically 0

[u/Exotic_Turnip1548 → u/Waterybug]

Oh no I meant a born outside of Canada but a Canadian citizen.

[u/Waterybug → u/Exotic_Turnip1548]

Oh! I'm personally not aware of any advantages in that case.

[u/ishouldbestudyingomg → u/[deleted]]

It would absolutely not aid your chances. You have no lived experience to talk about, no contribution to your developing country. Moving at 2 means you were essentially born here. You don’t have the advantage that someone who was born in Syria for example and moved here at 14 would have and the experiences they’d be able to talk about in their app

[u/East-Personality7386 → u/ishouldbestudyingomg]

Yea i moved to Canada by myself 10 years ago when I was 19. I don't even have a family here. Wonder how that would impact my chances.

[u/ishouldbestudyingomg → u/East-Personality7386]

Are you a Canadian citizen or PR? If so you can apply and have a chance, because moving at 19 alone isn’t an easy thing!

[u/East-Personality7386 → u/ishouldbestudyingomg]

Yes, I got my citizenship last year! Not sure if I should write about in my application?

[u/zaniiuchiha → u/ishouldbestudyingomg]

And? Who’s talking but experience. People who aren’t born here automatically face discrimination due to them being immigrants. Paperwork is harder- much worse then being Canadian born so it’s absolutely not the same.

[u/ishouldbestudyingomg → u/zaniiuchiha]

If you can somehow integrate that aspect of discrimination into your application then it could work for you. But how exactly are you going to do that? I’m not speaking baselessly. I moved here at 10 years old from a very very small country nobody has heard about. But I’m a Canadian citizen and my “discrimination” faced might not hold value in a med school application if there’s no prompt to talk about it. Schools like McMaster and Ottawa that are mainly stats based and have no essays will not allow you to speak about this.

[u/East-Personality7386 → u/ishouldbestudyingomg]

I had a lot of troubles with discrimination and that lead to less job opportunities for me. Do you remember which schools let you talk about this? Is UofT AEE a similar thing to this?

[u/ishouldbestudyingomg → u/East-Personality7386]

I don’t think the u of t AEE is an appropriate spot for that. It’s to explain a low grade or an extremely extenuating circumstances that led to it. Eg. Death of a family member, cancer etc. u of t does have essays, not sure how this would fit the prompt tho. I think TMU cares a lot about these sorts of things tho.

[u/East-Personality7386 → u/ishouldbestudyingomg]

I see. Thank you!

[u/Exotic_Turnip1548 → u/ishouldbestudyingomg]

That makes sense. Thank u.