Published weightUp to 4% for a grad degreeQARS, the Queen’s drawQualified Applicant Randomization Selection. Everyone who clears Queen’s thresholds goes into a random draw, with no weighting, for an internal evaluation. Grades above the thresholds do not improve your odds in the draw.
At Queen’s, a lottery decides who gets a closer look.
Since the class that entered in fall 2025, everyone who clears Queen’s GPA, MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. and Casper thresholds goes into a QARS, the Queen’s drawQualified Applicant Randomization Selection. Everyone who clears Queen’s thresholds goes into a random draw, with no weighting, for an internal evaluation. Grades above the thresholds do not improve your odds in the draw. for an internal evaluation. File review, interviews and offers come after, and are not random. Interviews jumped from 601 to 731, then 772.
Queen’s interviews by graduating classQueen’s names classes by graduating year and does not define what it counts as an interview. The Classes of 2025 and 2026 come from archived copies of Queen’s own statistics pages.
Only the CARSCritical Analysis and Reasoning Skills, one of the four MCAT sections. It tests reading and reasoning on passages from the humanities and social sciences. No science knowledge is needed. McMaster only looks at this section. section of the MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. counts, 123 minimum
Interview invitation: GPA 32%, CARSCritical Analysis and Reasoning Skills, one of the four MCAT sections. It tests reading and reasoning on passages from the humanities and social sciences. No science knowledge is needed. McMaster only looks at this section. 32%, CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it. 32%, up to 4% for a grad degree
Offer: MMI, multiple mini interviewA circuit of short, timed interview stations. Each station has a different scenario or question and a different interviewer, so no single conversation decides your score. Schools use it to judge communication, ethics and judgement, not science knowledge. 70%, GPA 15%, CARSCritical Analysis and Reasoning Skills, one of the four MCAT sections. It tests reading and reasoning on passages from the humanities and social sciences. No science knowledge is needed. McMaster only looks at this section. 15%
Did you know? McMaster pioneered the multiple mini interview (MMI) and developed Casper, two tests other Ontario schools now use.
Four-year MD in Brampton; the first class started in fall 2025
No MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. and no CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it.
A KiraKira Talent is an online platform where you answer timed questions on video or in writing. TMU uses a Kira assessment of six timed questions as its first cut. Western uses Kira to collect its autobiographical sketch. assessment of six timed video and written questions is the first cut
Needs a finished Four-year degreeTMU and NOSM need a finished four-year undergraduate degree before you start medical school. The other five schools take students after three years of study. and a 3.50 GPA
Did you know? Canada’s newest medical school opened in Brampton in July 2025.
No MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. and no CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it.
Interview invitation: GPA and Context ScoreNOSM’s score for your link to the North: years lived in Northern Ontario or a rural community, applying through the Indigenous or Francophone stream, and sustained work serving Northern Ontario. It is half of NOSM’s interview invitation score., weighted equally
Final score: about 32% pre-interview, 68% interview
Did you know? NOSM became Canada’s first independent medical university on April 1, 2022.
Last cycle: 3.70 GPA in each of two full-load years, not an average
Last cycle: MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. 126 in every section, or 125 through a pathway
The Southwestern Ontario pathway was 35% of the Class of 2030
Did you know? Frederick Banting joined Western’s faculty in 1920.
Four-year MD at St. George, Mississauga or Scarborough
The MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. is a pass mark: 125 per section, one 124 allowed
Needs 2 life science courses and 1 in social science, humanities or a language
Two 250-word essays and a 500-word statement, each scored on its own
Did you know? Insulin was discovered at U of T by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J. J. R. Macleod and James Collip.
No MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528.; an Early-phase MMIA recorded video interview done online in the fall, soon after you apply. You answer short scenarios on camera on the Acuity Insights platform. Several Ontario schools developed it together. uOttawa and Queen’s require it for entry in 2027. instead of CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it.
GPA 3.50 on your three most recent full-time years
Six prerequisite subjects at B or better
About 70% of seats go to applicants from the Ottawa region
Did you know? The faculty calls itself Canada’s only bilingual medical school.
Four-year MD in Kingston, or family medicine at Lakeridge Health in Durham Region
Thresholds: GPA 3.00, MCATThe Medical College Admission Test, run by the AAMC. It has four sections: chemistry and physics, critical analysis and reasoning (CARS), biology and biochemistry, and psychology and sociology. Each section is scored from 118 to 132, for a total from 472 to 528. 500 with 125 per section, CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it. and an Early-phase MMIA recorded video interview done online in the fall, soon after you apply. You answer short scenarios on camera on the Acuity Insights platform. Several Ontario schools developed it together. uOttawa and Queen’s require it for entry in 2027.
Then a QARS, the Queen’s drawQualified Applicant Randomization Selection. Everyone who clears Queen’s thresholds goes into a random draw, with no weighting, for an internal evaluation. Grades above the thresholds do not improve your odds in the draw., QARS, picks who gets an internal evaluation
20 family medicine seats at Lakeridge
Did you know? Queen’s medical faculty dates back to 1854.
CARSCritical Analysis and Reasoning Skills, one of the four MCAT sections. It tests reading and reasoning on passages from the humanities and social sciences. No science knowledge is needed. McMaster only looks at this section. only, 123 minimum2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027The other three MCAT sections are not considered. McMaster, before you apply
CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it. required2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027McMaster, before you apply
KiraKira Talent is an online platform where you answer timed questions on video or in writing. TMU uses a Kira assessment of six timed questions as its first cut. Western uses Kira to collect its autobiographical sketch. assessment; no CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it.2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027Six timed questions, video and written. TMU, admissions FAQ
126 in each sectionLast cycle’s minimum, 2025-26Western resets its MCAT minimums each year after seeing the applicants, and posts them with interview decisions in early 2027. Pathway applicants were considered at 125. OMSAS, Western, 2026-27
None2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027No Casper. The autobiographical sketch is completed on the Kira platform after OMSAS closes. OMSAS, Western, 2026-27
3.70 in each of 2 yearsLast cycle’s minimum, 2025-26Two separate years, not an average. Western sets the number each year after seeing the applicants. OMSAS, Western, 2026-27
2 life science + 1 social science, humanities or language2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027Full-course equivalents. No minimum grade and no lab required. U of T MD, prerequisite courses
Early-phase MMI, multiple mini interviewA circuit of short, timed interview stations. Each station has a different scenario or question and a different interviewer, so no single conversation decides your score. Schools use it to judge communication, ethics and judgement, not science knowledge.; no CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it.2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027Recorded video answers on the Acuity Insights platform, in your stream’s language. uOttawa, application process
6 subjects at B or better2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027Biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, statistics, and humanities or social sciences. Labs on site. uOttawa, application process
5,920School’s “admissions cycle 2026”The school does not say if this is the year applications were made or the year of entry. uOttawa, about admissions
About 184Average new students a yearRoughly 128 English stream and 56 French stream. 189 admitted in the school’s admissions cycle 2026. uOttawa, about admissions
CasperAn online situational judgement test from Acuity Insights. You watch or read everyday scenarios and explain what you would do and why, in typed and video answers. Human raters score it. and Early-phase MMIA recorded video interview done online in the fall, soon after you apply. You answer short scenarios on camera on the Acuity Insights platform. Several Ontario schools developed it together. uOttawa and Queen’s require it for entry in 2027.2026-27 cycle, entry fall 2027The Casper cutoff is kept private. Queen’s, methods of selection