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I have a theory that medical schools have goals to meet e.g., reaching a certain median MCAT/GPA, selecting a demographically diverse class, etc. Hypothetically, if the school had a goal of matriculating 40 students from California, and let's say an admitted Californian applicant withdraws, the school will go into the waitlist and search for California students who are waitlisted and make a decision from there. The same thing may go for MCAT, if someone with a 520 withdraws, Loma may only pull people off who have MCAT scores that will help reach their MCAT goal. So, unranked could mean that the adcom will replace similarly (i.e., in stats, life experience, demographics) accepted applicants with waitlist applicants. Let us know if they give you an answer!I'm gonna call tomorrow and ask, but I'm assuming it means they just pull people off randomly?