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All the members of our team have excelled in CEGEP academics, have a variety of extracurricular experiences, and have gained admission to selective programs.

Members of our team have gained admission to: McGill University Med-P/Dent-P | McGill University, Faculty of Law | Harvard University | Oxford University | Columbia University | University of Pennsylvania | Université de Montréal, facultés de Médecine et de Droit | and more

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RScology’s mission is to increase awareness of quality information about CEGEP academics and university admissions for as many students as possible. As a complement to our more in-depth one-on-one consulting programs, we seek to answer common questions on our blog.

Categories: R-Score , Academic Strategy , Law School Admissions , Medical School Admissions

Recent Posts

The New R-Score Adjustment: How Will It Affect You?

Despite the bad rap it occasionally gets for being difficult to understand, many students have always known our dear R-Score as a relatively simple formula: (Z-Score + IFG + 5) × 5, where IFG, or group strength index (indice de force de groupe), equals (High school average – 75) / 14 (if you haven’t read our R-Score breakdown, it will provide useful background before reading this article). As authors of a website dedicated to analyzing not only university admissions but also the R-Score itself, we were evidently intrigued when the media reported on Monday that the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur would implement a modified R-Score calculation, starting in the Fall semester of 2017.
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An Extensive Guide to Extracurriculars

When applying to competitive university programs, you may, as a CEGEP student, be inclined to join dozens of clubs and activities, seeking to check off as many of the common “boxes” of extracurriculars as possible: volunteering, scientific research, and so on. We think that this approach is far from optimal, and we seek to give you an introduction in this article to the most efficient approach to extracurriculars. Variety and depth A common concern is whether students should invest time into a variety of extracurriculars, doing the bare minimum for each one, or rather pour most of their time into one or two activities that they care about and maximize their impact in those.
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Evaluation Groups, and How to Use Them to Your Advantage

If you have read our article The Ultimate R-Score Breakdown: Everything Explained (and if you haven’t, you should before reading this article), you will know that the only true ‘variable’ relating to the R-Score with which CEGEP students should be concerned is the evaluation group. To recapitulate, the evaluation group is the group of students who are considered to be taking the same class as you, and with whom you are grouped for the purposes of R-Score calculation: the class average, standard deviation and high school average are determined from this group.
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