I know, this topic has been posted in this forum a million times now, but I'm really wondering if I could get any chance of getting into mcmaster's life sci with an average of just 83.8333.

These are my top 6 marks
history: 92
religion: 95
english: 85
bio: 85
chem: 73
ad. func: 70

they all add up to 83.8.

In addition, i'm really confused about mcmaster's programs. Did I apply for Life Sciences which has a prereq of either calculus or functions? Or did I apply to Molecular Biology and Genetics which has a prereq of calculus.

I really do not want to use my calculus mark from this midterm which is a 50 flat.

PLEASE HELP!

The cut-off can't be 89! LJustin, on this thread http://www.studentawards...sts&t=11331&p=2 stated that an 88 got admission into 2012 Mac LifeSci.

If you read last year's post or the old forum, you will read some people getting in with 86 and some not getting in with 87. I think (just my opinion), there may be cut off rules for different provinces. Just my guess. I think there are other admission criteria that we may not know besides just making the cut off. My 1st term mark is 87 (non semesterd school) and based on last year's forum (by this time), I should have got in into Western or Guelph Biomed and yet non has given me an offer to the program I applied. It could also depend on your ranking. If you have 88 and ranked Mac as your 1st choice and somebody with 89 ranked it last, I think (again my opinion) they would give it to someone with 88 and not neccesarily to someone with 89. Just my opinion.....

The cut off this year is 85%, as mentioned on my offer of admission.

Isn't that the average you need to MAINTAIN once you are granted admission? Mac's cut off IS AN 89%. YES, I talked to the counselors. You need an 89% to be admitted, but once you are admitted, you are required to maintain an 84-85% to retain your acceptance.

Some people are given admissions slightly below the average based on their unique circumstances (which is why some people got in lower). But for the average person, you need an 89%.

And yes, it is a reasonable average for whoever asked about Health Sci being a 90% average. That 90% is the ESTIMATED MINIMUM, not the flat out average. It could be anywhere from a 90%-93%, depending on the amount of competition and their averages overall.

If that's true then that's unfortunate for a lot of people. Health Science admission average is 90% exactly, though. Once a student reaches or exceeds the 90%, it's all about the score on the supplementary. The 90% is just designed to get the cream of the crop, I believe.

Even though it says 90%, but depends on how many ppl apply and their avg of it. The cut off rises every year, just like life sci. But yea, supplementary plays a big role
And btw, same program as you in mac :)

Hey guys. I emailed mac earlier in april and they told me that the CURRENT cutoff for life sciences is 89. however they're waiting on second semester midterms to see if it will get lowered. I personally think it will drop 1-2% by the last round of admissions in late may, considerig the fact that health sci ppl will reject their life sci offers and obviously those 95 %+ students are no longer driving admission crazy high..