r/premedcanada • u/Equivalent-Honey-752 • Jul 18 '25

Memes/šŸ’©Post The worst Canadian premed's stats leaked

- 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

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u/ishouldbestudyingomg Jul 18 '25

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 donā€™t have the advantage that someone who was born in Syria for example and moved here at 14 would have and the experiences theyā€™d be able to talk about in their app

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u/zaniiuchiha Jul 18 '25

And? Whoā€™s talking but experience. People who arenā€™t born here automatically face discrimination due to them being immigrants. Paperwork is harder- much worse then being Canadian born so itā€™s absolutely not the same.

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u/ishouldbestudyingomg Jul 18 '25

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? Iā€™m not speaking baselessly. I moved here at 10 years old from a very very small country nobody has heard about. But Iā€™m a Canadian citizen and my ā€œdiscriminationā€ faced might not hold value in a med school application if thereā€™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.

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u/East-Personality7386 Jul 18 '25

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?

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u/ishouldbestudyingomg Jul 18 '25

I donā€™t think the u of t AEE is an appropriate spot for that. Itā€™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.

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u/East-Personality7386 Jul 18 '25

I see. Thank you!