I’m glad that you were able to increase your score.
I can’t help, but comment on your post as I think your tone is rather condescending. It’s sounds like “So I’m at 495 now and everybody under 495 is inferior to me”. It’s human nature after all, imagine what people with CRS score above 1000 must think of you and the rest of us.
You seem to have all the required factors (including French) hence your CRS is where it is right now, rest of us are not so lucky. Take me as an example, I’m fluent in five different languages, but unfortunately none of them give me any extra points (Bad luck I guess). Similarly for others it may be age, for some others it could be language, family etc. But that doesn’t mean we should give up. Besides CRS is not an indication of someone’s ability. I’m sure there are many here from Tier 1 institutions, working in top tier companies, but have low CRS scores due to the above constraints.
Dissuading others from applying may not work as people here are resilient and determined to finish what they started.
Hey I'm sorry to hear that I sound condescending, I didnt really mean that.
I didnt tell anyone to give up, quite the opposite. I want everyone here to succeed and this forum helped me a lot in what to do to get points. I want to continue that help people succeed.
Im not dissuading anyone to apply, I never told anyone to give up. I am encouraging people to try to get more points instead of just waiting it out and hope the scores go down. I'm not telling anyone give up hope, I'm telling to consider the worst case scenario.
Do you really think it is better to just wait instead of look to get more points anywhere?
If there is one think I learned here this year is that to not leave your dreams on CIC hands, do the best you can on your end.
Consider the scenario that it doesnt go down many points. Next year many will lose more points by age, and if they wait until end of year to see that it didnt go down and start looking for more points, it will end up taking longer for them to receive and ITA because they will need to compensate for the new age...