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hey i just finished my first year at western and i applied to transfer to mac health sci
im just wondering if any other transfers got their acceptance or rejection letters cuz im still waiting for something
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anyone?
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Hey MB,
I have applied to transfer to the Health Sciences program as well. Just like you, I haven't heard anything from them. I did e-mail them a while ago, and they told me that admission decisions will be made towards the end of May (which I am assuming is this week). They did not say anything about when we actually find out about the status of our application. Are there any other transfer applicants on this forum?
The wait is killing me!
McMaster Science '11
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yea iknow its killing me too its the first thing i check when i wake up lol
but yea your right it should be this week, and hey we didnt get rejected yet so i guess thats kinda good lol
hope u get in bro
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Hey MB,
*Fingers crossed*! Hope you get in too bro! Did you also apply to BHSc as a high school applicant? I did, and obviously I was unsuccessful. But yeah, chances of getting in as a transfer applicant (20 in 350) are just SLIGHTLY better than as a high school applicant (160 in 3200). So, its hard either way. By the way, what program are you in at Western?
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yea i tried from high school too, glad to hear our chances are a bit better lol
at western im in bio med sci and if i stay here im probably gonna do an honours spec in microbio and immunology which i would love to do, but if health sci works out i cant say no lol
and im assuming ur in mac sci by ur signature, hows that ?
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Well, first year is general science for us at McMaster (I think that's how it is at Western for you as well, correct?). So, it really is a bit of everything that we learn about, which sucks because I found that some of the things that we learned was absolutely useless (like Ecology). But I guess the program wants to expose us to a wide variety of courses so that we have a better idea of what we can major/specialize in. But, if BHSc doesn't work out for me, I am planning on doing a major in Biochemistry or Molecular Biology. We don't really have any cool specializations like Microbiology and Immunology, which sucks big times because I would love to do a specialization in that. I should've have gone to Western though because I hear lots of good stuff about it (especially the Biomedical program). About BHSc though, did you receive ANY email from them? That's what I am most worried about... that I haven't heard from them at all (except of course when I emailed them). I've heard from some students that we will find out about the status of our applications in early June because we (McMaster students) still haven't had our final grades released. So, I'm thinking that the BHSc office is waiting for final grades to be released so that they can check if we have met the academic requirements, and THEN they will send out offers of admission. But, I am thinking that they must already have access to the grades, or else it would get too late because if we do get in, we have to select our courses for next year on June 24th (http://registrar.mcmaster.ca/registered/SOLAR%20200809%20entry%20schedule%20FINAL.pdf). So, I really don't know what is happening. I do hope that they are almost done with reviewing all applications though.
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yea its general science here at western too. actually its not until like the 3rd year i think that we actually get into our specializations. I havent recieved ANYTHING from mac, but man dont worry about it they'll get to us soon. i called them once like 2 weeks ago and at that time she told me it would be about 2 weeks for admission decisions to be made. So im expecting something anyday now
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Okay, so I am guessing that we will find out on Friday (May 30th) because that's when our (McMaster students) final grades are released.
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hey i just called them, i asked them when they are going to send out the admission decisions and the lady said they hope to email them out within the next 10 days..so we may still have some waiting ahead of us lol
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Ah, oh well... we've waited over a month already. 10 days should be nothing (hopefully)!
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heyy did anyone hear from them yet? I applied too =)
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Hey aani,
Nothing yet! I am thinking that we will hear something in the upcoming week.
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Heyy Did your transcript show anything tho? Right under the marks they discuss eligiblity....and im wondering if that is the acceptance or just a way of saying that our marks are good enough. The suspense is killing me hehe 
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Hey, my transcript reads like this:
REGISTRATION FOR SEP08-APR09
ELIGIBLE FOR
BSC/HON , H LIFE SCIENCE
BHSC/HON, HON B HTH SCI
REGISTER FOR HTH SCI 2D06 IN LIEU OF HTH SCI 2E03.
STATS 1CC3 WILL REPLACE HTH SCI 2A03 (STATS).
I know somebody else has "DECISION PENDING" on theirs instead of eligible, even though they met the GPA cutoff...
Then again this could all mean nothing.
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Hey
My transcript is pretty similar to that except it doesn't have the STATS thing. And yup, I heard about someone with decision pending, and someone who got ineligible even though their marks were over the cutoff. So yeah, Im tempted to think its an acceptance, but you never know lol.
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hey on mine it says
inelgiible for first choice but elgible for second choice
it doesnt say anything about bhsc its talking about the programs i applied for here at western for the upcomming year.
Im going to have to assume that you guys go to Mac and thats why yours talks about bhsc and mine does not
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to sraw and aani:
congratulations, you're in! join the facebook group (mcmaster health sci froshies '07) if you decide to accept!
it's not just BHSc...
it's BHSexyyy!!!
mac hthsci '11, 1st year rep
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congrats you guys!
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Hey guys!
Sorry for the late reply! First and foremost, congratulations to sraw and aani for getting accepted into the program. I am sure that you guys will do very well in the program! In terms of my transcript, it also says "Decision Pending." I did get a chance to get in touch with the BHSc administration office and they said that they haven't gotten a chance to review my application yet. I know of a couple of people that have "Decision Pending" as well. My guess is that the office is assessing the applications in order of submission. I submitted my application about 5 minutes prior to the deadline, and so it will probably be one of the last ones to be reviewed. But, my only question is that what if they pick out 20 applications by the time they get to my application (because students, like sraw and aani, have already been accepted ). Also, they said that nobody has been notified by e-mail yet and that they will send out admission decisions, via email, in a week or two. So, hopefully (for MB and myself) we find out about our status by the end of next week. Once again, congratulations to sraw and aani!
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