{"id":595,"date":"2020-05-06T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T00:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/?p=595"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:13:17","slug":"contacting-verifiers-areas-of-concern-offer-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/2020\/05\/06\/contacting-verifiers-areas-of-concern-offer-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Contacting Verifiers \/Areas of Concern\/Offer Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Applicants,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are now truly in the home stretch with approximately a week left before we send out offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m sending this out to&nbsp;<em>reduce some anxiety<\/em>&nbsp;because every year there is this belief that there is a relationship between a verifier being contacted and your admission status. Whether you have a verifier contacted or not does not say anything about what is going to happen to you next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main reason we contact verifiers is outlined in the Applicant Manual and is to look for Areas of Concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe applicant\u2019s file will be considered open until the first day of class. The Admissions Office<br>reserves the right to continually review the file and contact referees and\/or verifiers during this<br>time. Any evidence of misrepresentation, misleading information, or other irregularities or<br>concerns will be brought forward to the Admissions Committee and may result in revocation of<br>any offer that has been made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contacting verifiers goes beyond this-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn addition, the applicant\u2019s file may be randomly selected for review during their time in the<br>undergraduate medical program at the Cumming School of Medicine. Any evidence of<br>misrepresentation, misleading information, or other irregularities or concerns will be brought<br>forward to the Associate Dean of UME and may result in a formal review in front of the Student<br>Academic Review Committee and appropriate recommendations made which may include<br>withdrawal from the program\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So for some of you, you may not have a verifier contacted until after the offers go out or even well into the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, every year, there are students who get moved from their position on the list because of Areas of Concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of today, offers will go out either&nbsp;<strong>May 12 or 13th.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Applicants, We are now truly in the home stretch with approximately a week left before we send out offers. I\u2019m sending this out to&nbsp;reduce some anxiety&nbsp;because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,7,98,50,178],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admissions","tag-application","tag-application-manual","tag-manual","tag-offers"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Remo Panaccione","author_link":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/author\/remo-panaccione\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpsites.ucalgary.ca\/mdadmissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}