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Medical School Minimum GPA IP Minimum GPA OOP Years Completed Required cGPA Calculation wGPA Calculation MCAT Requirement Course Requirement IP Bias? Accept Pass-Fail? GPA Includes Summer Courses? Casper
Alberta 3.3 3.5 1

(Uses Alberta GPA)
Method: Only include years with >= 18 credits (academic) or >= 12 credits (summer).

(Uses Alberta GPA)
Method: Only include years with >= 18 credits (academic) or >= 12 credits (summer).
Remove lowest academic year GPA.
To be eligible, you need to have completed at least 3 years, with each year containing >=18 credits.
The lowest year can't be your final year.
The lowest year must have >=30 credits and cannot be the only year to have >= 30 credits.

(IP): ALL 124
(OOP): ALL 124, CARS 128

Full year courses in organic and general (inorganic) chemistry, biology, physics and English; half year courses in biochemistry and statistics.

True True True True
Calgary 3.2 3.8 1

(Uses Alberta GPA)

(Uses Alberta GPA)
Method: Remove lowest year GPA.
To be eligible, you need to have completed at least 3 years, with the lowest year containing >= 18 credits.

(IP): No minimum
(OOP): CARS 128

True True False True
Dalhousie 3.3 3.7 3

(Uses OMSAS GPA)
Method: Uses the most recent 60 credits.
For simplicity, MDbuddy will use the last 2 years.

(IP): ALL 124, TOTAL 449
(OOP): ALL 124, TOTAL 503

True True True True
Manitoba 0.0 3.94 2

MDbuddy does not calculate Manitoba GPA

MDbuddy does not calculate Manitoba GPA

(IP): No minimum
(OOP): CARS 128

6 credit hours of university level biochemistry.

True True True True
McGill 0.0 0.0 3

(Uses OMSAS GPA)

(IP): Required
(OOP): Required

2 introductory Biology courses with labs (at least 6 cr.)
2 introductory Chemistry courses with labs (at least 6 cr.)
1 introductory Organic Chemistry course with lab (at least 3 cr.)
2 introductory Physics courses with labs (at least 6 cr.)
OR
Mammalian physiology (3 cr.)
Organic chemistry* (3 cr.)
Molecular biology (3 cr.)
Cell biology & metabolism (3 cr.)

True True True True
McMaster 3.0 3.0 2

(Uses OMSAS GPA)

(IP): Required
(OOP): Required
Note: CARS heavy school

True True True True
Memorial 80.0 85.0 3

(Uses OMSAS GPA)

(IP): Required
(OOP): Required

True True True True
Montreal 0.0 0.0 1

(Uses OMSAS GPA)

Biology, human biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics

True True True True
Northern Ontario 3.0 3.0 3

(Uses OMSAS GPA)
Applicants who possess a graduate degree (Masters/PhD) will receive an additional 0.2 if you meet the minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale after the initial GPA calculation. MDbuddy will not calculate this value for you.

Biology, human biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics

True (Northern Ontario) True True False
Ottawa 3.5 3.5 2

(Uses OMSAS GPA)
Method: Uses most recent 3 years, with each year containing >=30 credits, and a maximum of 3 PASS_FAIL credits per semester.

6 units in humanities /Social Sciences
6 units in Biology or Physiology
3 units in Organic Chemistry
3 units in Chemistry
3 units in Biochemistry
3 units in Statistics

False True True True
Queens 0.0 0.0 2

(Uses OMSAS GPA)

Required

False True True True
Saskatchewan 75.0 83.0 3

(Uses Saskatchewan GPA)
Method: Remove N lowest GPA credits from GPA total.
If you completed 90-105 credits, N=9 credits will be removed. If you completed 106 - 120 credits, N=12 credits will be removed.

(IP): ALL: 27 percentile
(OOP): ALL: 99 percentile, CARS: 90 percentile

Two terms in each of biochemistry, biology, chemistry (general and organic), physics, social science/humanities and English

True True True True
Sherbrooke 0.0 0.0 3

(Uses OMSAS GPA)

(IP): Required
(OOP): Required

True True True True
UBC 75.0 85.0 2

(Uses UBC GPA)

(Uses UBC GPA)
Remove 30 credits from lowest GPA year
For simplicity MDbuddy will just remove lowest year

(IP): 124
(OOP): 124

6 credits of English coursework

True True True False
UofT 3.6 3.6 2

(Uses OMSAS GPA)
Summer courses are only added to the cGPA calculation if you take 9 or more credits for that year.

Removed since September 16 2022.

(IP): ALL 125, allowance of one 124
(OOP): ALL 125, allowance of one 124

Two full courses in life sciences and one full course in social science or humanities or a second language. Summer courses not included in the wGPA calculation

False True True False
Western 3.7 3.7 4

(Uses OMSAS GPA)
Method: Uses courses only from your 2 best years
To be eligible, each academic year containing >=30 credits, with a maximum of 1 FCE PASS_FAIL for each year.

(SWOMEN) CP 125, CARS 125, BB 125, TOTAL 380
(REST) CP 126, CARS 128, BB 126, TOTAL 380

Yes (SWOMEN) True False False

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