Originally Posted by dmswn

well i found out that Mcmaster is going to be extremely firm with their admissions and even .1% below the cutoff is going to be withdrawn. They are overcrowded and they are cutting as many students as they can

Aw that's really lame. Sorry to hear that. :(

Has anyone had luck with contacting registrar and asking for an extension on conditionals? (is it even possible?) ATM my conditionals are slightly below, so i would like to try and upgrade my mark by august

I emailed them a while back.. about 2 weeks.. and they said the date is very firm - I was planning to take a summer course to boost my average. But they said they don't accept upgrades in the summer prior to admission.. ie summer '09. And the deadline is June 30th.

Firm for admissions but how about conditionals?

Originally Posted by Rubicon

Firm for admissions but how about conditionals?

Your best bet would be to contact the school and speak to someone who deals with admissions. They would be able to speak to you directly about your case as well.

Yep. Contact the Registrar's office.. or even call the main number for mcmaster, and the operator would transfer you .. That's what i did anyway.

i was talking to someone today after I went for my easy summer orientation thing and his avg was off by 1% (engineering). So is there no hope for getting in or sumthing else can be done?

Originally Posted by smashpro1123

i was talking to someone today after I went for my easy summer orientation thing and his avg was off by 1% (engineering). So is there no hope for getting in or sumthing else can be done?

Oh myy only 1%?! I think it all depends on the numbers. Since engineering is quite in demand.. Depending on how many people reject the offers that they sent out, they register people. But they would send out more offers from the higher percentages and go down. So in reality, the chance of him getting an offer would be quite low :(. These cutoff seem to be really strict in a sense.

yup, just by 1%. but what can u do, in the end it is still the uni's decision but hopefully those ppl who are in these situations gets lucky and gets accepted.

Originally Posted by smashpro1123

yup, just by 1%. but what can u do, in the end it is still the uni's decision but hopefully those ppl who are in these situations gets lucky and gets accepted.

That's really sad. But any university obviously picks the highest marks just to talk proudly about how high their admission averages are.. Too bad for the people in such situations :(

Originally Posted by ~*Sara*~

That's really sad. But any university obviously picks the highest marks just to talk proudly about how high their admission averages are.. Too bad for the people in such situations :(

It really is a shame that they don't budge on conditional offers. :(

did anyone got a letter of rejection or not yet?????
this is really stressful ....

I kinda got one, i know the rescinded but it said, 50 offers of admission, what part does that mean, ughhh, atm just gonna try contacting registrar and work something out, already upgrading marks, check your program and course summary in mugsi

I know! :( Really horrible that people would have everything set, and then the offer would get taken back from them :( especially if they paid the residence deposit.