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.

In our first semester of CEGEP, we often wondered as students how grades might correlate to R-Score values, and indeed first-years can often be spotted obsessively using rscorecalculator.com. Knowing only their approximate grade and lacking information for the class average, standard deviation and high school average, they confidently make up dubious values for those three numbers. At RScology, we performed a statistical analysis on numerous R-Score data points obtained during our own studies to extract those values, thus generating the very first publicly available R-Score dataset available online.

Studying for science subjects can sometimes seem daunting, especially if you’re about to cram for your midterm because you forgot to listen in class. In reality, there are very few ways you can go about studying for science classes efficiently, and these can be separated into two types of studying: memorizing and understanding. The God of Memorization: Anki Evidence-based science has shown that the best way to memorize information is through spaced repetition.

You wake up, knowing full well you’re late for class…again. You look at your calendar. Oops. It’s October and you’re already on your way to a 19 R-Score. As you sprint towards your bus stop in your desperate attempt to not miss it, you can’t help but wonder: when did it all go wrong? Maybe if you didn’t mess around during your first month, things would’ve been different. Schedule, schedule, schedule The priorities of a typical CEGEP student can be symbolized as a pyramid of Maslow.

The most prestigious program in Quebec to which students can be admitted directly from CEGEP without any science prerequisites would undoubtedly be one in the field of law. The province is unique in allowing collegiate students to begin a law degree as an undergraduate degree, whereas law is an exclusively graduate field of study in the rest of North America. Here is everything you need to know about law school admissions from CEGEP.

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.

Depending on which medical school you would rather attend, the approach to take in order to optimize your application will vary. The French medical schools (that is, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke and Université de Laval) differ from McGill and other English medical schools as they only look at your grades and interview score, without any direct evaluation of your CV or extracurricular activities. Why Attend a French Medical School Language: You would rather spend most of your time in a French environment than an English one.

Med-P is an undergraduate medical program at McGill University, open only to CEGEP students in Quebec, whose selectiveness, convenience and prestige have consistently made it one of the province’s most desirable university programs. The somewhat irrational fascination with the program experienced by many CEGEP students has placed it at the center of many misconceptions about the difficulty of admission, or rather the factors which create that difficulty. McGill is the only medical school in Quebec which uses a holistic admissions process, evaluating a candidate’s CV and personal narrative (PN) in addition to their grades before granting an interview.

Even with the best intentions, a plan to apply to medical school won’t always go as you expected. Problems involving health, family or simply a series of unfortunate events can force you to readjust your initial plan towards medicine and temporarily settle for a well-advised plan B. This plan will depend on which category of applicant you are, and what your ultimate goal is. Collegiate applicant Suppose that, despite carefully tailoring your profile to maximize your chances of admission to McGill Med-P and other Quebec medical schools, you are directly rejected from all of them, or fail to get off the waitlist at any.