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Is it possible to be accepted off the waitlist after you've already matriculated at another school?
chaeymaey said:Hopefully you've withdrawn before then. It's mean to stay on the waitlist when you know that there are other people waiting on it just like you were.
BrettBatchelor said:I believe once school starts then you can't be pulled from a waitlist. Look on the applicant procedures on the aamc.org
Yes. That is where I saw that.tdd340 said:http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/policies/admissionofficers.htm
read #9 it says right there that no school can make an acceptance offer if you have already matriculated
Sorry to bump an old topic, but how does this rule hold up? I have heard (from word of mouth) that people have gotten into early starting schools, stayed on waitlists, then dropped out of the school to go the school they got into off the waitlist. For example, I've seen on the Case threads that some people get accepted after school starts because of this reason.
I still see on the website that it says the same thing
For students https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/recommendations/applicants/):https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/recommendations/applicants/
10. Immediately upon enrollment in, or initiation of an orientation program immediately prior to enrollment at, a U.S. or Canadian school or program, each applicant withdraw his or her application from consideration at all other schools or programs at which he or she remains under consideration.
For admissions officers https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/recommendations/admissionofficers/
9. No school make an acceptance offer, either verbal or written, to any individual who has enrolled in, or begun an orientation program immediately prior to enrollment at, a U.S. or Canadian school. Enrollment is defined as being officially matriculated as a member of the school's first-year entering class.
Can someone tell me what "enrolled in" or "officially matriculated" means? Does this mean that if you're more hopeful to go to a waitlist school and would only go to an early starting school if you absolutely had to, you pretty much only have until one day before orientation to wait on your waitlists?
Can someone tell me what "enrolled in" or "officially matriculated" means? Does this mean that if you're more hopeful to go to a waitlist school and would only go to an early starting school if you absolutely had to, you pretty much only have until one day before orientation to wait on your waitlists?