Will UBC ever adopt a more flexible GPA policy?????
SFU Med just opened as the first new med school in Western Canada in almost 60 yrs and their admissions model lets applicants pick one undergrad degree and get evaluated on their best 60 credits from it. That makes alot of sense bc it captures where someone is academically now rather than averaging in a degree they finished before they even knew what they wanted to do. UBC doesnt have anything like that for ppl with multiple degrees. Everything pools into the OGPA and the AGPA only drops one yr which barely helps when a whole earlier transcript is pulling things down. The applicant pool jumped from about 2,829 to 3,815 in four cycles so the demographic is clearly shifting and more non-traditional applicants are probaly in that mix than ever before. UBC already rethought their MCAT eligiblity for 2025/2026 and wrote on their blog that the goal was to stop “otherwise strong applicants who were held back by one or two subsection scores” from being screened out, and they realigned Table 2 conversions over a fairness issue btwn institutions. That language maps pretty directly onto someone w a strong second degree being held back by an old transcript. The cutoffs and competitive averages would stay exactly the same under a degree selection model, the evaluation would just land closer to where someone actually is. Anyone think theres a realistic chance UBC considers somthing like this?