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chances? 3.51 cgpa, 150 and 156.
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emasrbmk, in Queen's University
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En me basant sur le forum de l'année passée, j'ai vu des personnes acceptées avec des GPA de 3.4 (bac complété) et 3.61 (bac non complété), donc ça peut te donner une idée. J'ai également vu des gens avec des GPA plus bas acceptés de la liste d'attente.
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As far as i know there was only one 1L who secured a summer job last year at a corporate firm through the 1L recruit. I am wondering if there is anyone on this forum who has had experience with being a Windsor 1L and trying their hand at the 1L recruit. I am interested in corporate law and would love to secure a 1L position at a bay st firm if possible. Please respond here or also willing to take our convo to the PM's if anyone looking to respond finds comfort in that. Also - the question is open to anyone with an opinion on how 1L recruit might go for someone with decent work experiences and all the other normal ECs...i suppose i should mention that i am waiting on a few marks but i can provide what i have so far in a PM.
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By FineCanadianFXs · Posted
I'll add that one potential reason candidates may get this question often in interviews is because they haven't really helped guide the interviewers using their resume (or cover letter) to good softball topics. By god, the interests section is a free pass to express your identity--within reason and considering your audience of course. It was years ago, but I recall very few of my OCI interviews started anywhere outside of my resume's interests section. It's always been a frequent source of interview conversation since then. Use it. If you list your interests generically as "Cooking. Travelling. Hockey. Running", it just leads to questions equivalient to "please elaborate". Or if your interviewers have just completed six other back-to-back interviews and are too tired or lazy to parse your generic interests, that may explain why they're asking you to "tell us about yourself" because the resume failed to. If you list interests like "Pizziaolo. Crossed the Sahara. Rent-a-Goalie. Marathonist. Commemorative POG collector." then you will get questions like "okay, you have gotta tell us about your pog collection", and then you actually get to talk enthusiastically about the things you like and do. And as @Hegdis and @realpseudonym point out, your interviewer is looking for light conversation, but also note that a conversation isn't a monologue. Be prepared to talk about stuff that interests you, but be prepared to be reasonably brief about it. Not so brief that you aren't being informative or providing opportunities for follow up questions, but brief enough that interviewers can get a word in edgewise. Or change topic. -
I'm in a somewhat similar position. I have 23k in BC/Federal student loans and about 11k in cash due to the student loan increases / starting up a job. I think I'm going to try and pay off as much debt as possible in the next couple months and then start saving for law school. I'm not sure how your school does bursaries, but the UBC bursary calculator seems to only take into account your current cash reserves and not your net financial position. If that's the case I think it's worth it to try and reduce your debt as much as possible before beginning law school since you would qualify for more bursaries and end school with less debt. I don't think it's unethical to do this since I do need the money! I have negative equity and am paying for school myself. The thing I'm trying to figure out is if making payments towards my student loans this year will impact my student loan amounts in future years. It doesn't seem like it will, but I want to be sure of that before making payments.
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Well, go to it. Sounds like your reasons are as good as anyone’s and it also sounds like you aren’t actually looking for advice here.
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