As a first year, Ive heard many rumors about grades, 2nd year, summer school and med school. I would love it if someone shines some light on these and reveals the truth lol.

1. If you fail a course and take it in summer school, your newest average will count. But if you do bad in a course and retake it summer school, the average of the two will count on your transcript. Rumor or truth?

2. If you are kicked out of university (May 31st is the results) you will not be able to complete second term summer school, and will not be refunded your money for summer school, and your first term summer school course does not count.

3. If you are kicked out, you will have to wait a full year before reapplying and will have to start from scratch, aka you will have to redo year one.

4. Even though McMaster itself said there is no specific prerequisites to Med School, students have been eating my brains out saying they will discriminate. Ex: will be picky towards ppl who have not taking higher, harder courses such as Physic 1B03/1BB3 and took 1L03 and took Math 1LS3 instead of Math 1A03/1AA3.

SO far these are the rumors that are given a lot of hype in first year students. IF you higher up students could clarify some of the rumors so I could shine some light on these horrid rumors It'll be greatly appreciated. Also, if someone could post a link of steps, admission requirements, and things to do/necessary for med school, i would greatly appreciate it .

Thank YOU in Advance for your contribution:drinking 08:

I'm finding it a little confusing that half your questions are about medical school and the other half is about being kicked out/failing courses.

Are the two sets of questions/rumors unrelated and you're just asking for clarification on both?

Either way, for the med school stuff,

Google 'premed101'

Thanks for the link, and all of these topics are unrelated, theyre just a bunch of rumors Ive heard and wish to clarify.

Originally Posted by DreadScythe1

2. If you are kicked out of university (May 31st is the results) you will not be able to complete second term summer school, and will not be refunded your money for summer school, and your first term summer school course does not count.

...if you are kicked out of university I suppose you would not be allowed to take any summer school, so yeah, whatever you did in your term I of summer school doesn't really count for anything. I would double check this with the Registrar though.

3. If you are kicked out, you will have to wait a full year before reapplying and will have to start from scratch, aka you will have to redo year one.

Basically yes. If you can't maintain an average of 3.5, you are at risk of being kicked out.

3.0-3.4 = You are put on academic probation for "one reviewing period", which I believe means one semester? Or one term (like fall/winter or spring/summer)?

<3.0 = You are not allowed to continue, and must withdraw from the University for at least 12 months (reference: http://registrar.mcmaster.ca /calen...ent/pg127.html ) before applying for reinstatement.

Originally Posted by DreadScythe1

Also, if someone could post a link of steps, admission requirements, and things to do/necessary for med school, i would greatly appreciate it .

Thank YOU in Advance for your contribution:drinking 08:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=canadian+med+schoo l+requirements

Originally Posted by DreadScythe1

1. If you fail a course and take it in summer school, your newest average will count. But if you do bad in a course and retake it summer school, the average of the two will count on your transcript. Rumor or truth?

Failing a course will always be on your transcript just like any other course. It will be part of your average.

Also, just to add on the reinstatement. You don't HAVE to restart from square one, I'm sure that the courses you have already taken and passed still count towards your future. If you manage to take equivalent courses at other universities you can also get transfer credits. You just have to make sure that the courses are equivalent.

Originally Posted by nh999

3.0-3.4 = You are put on academic probation for "one reviewing period", which I believe means one semester? Or one term (like fall/winter or spring/summer)?

There SHOULD be two review periods, but I'm pretty sure they only have one, which is at the end of Fall/Winter (Which is why summer courses don't count in your CA when applying for second year programs). So 1 review period is a year.