. . . It's the AAMC's traffic rules that implore medical schools to beign weeding through the many students that are holding multiple seats while waiting to hear back from their top choice schools, so as to give those of us on the WLs an opportunity to accept a seat:
"After May 15 of the matriculation year (
April 15 for schools whose first day of class is on or before July 30 [ETSU's first day of orientation is July 23rd, first day of class July 25]), April 30 for M.D.-Ph.D. programs, each school or program implement school-specific procedures for accepted applicants who, without adequate explanation, continue to hold one or more places at other schools or programs. These procedures:
a. May require applicants to:
1. Respond to acceptance offers in less than two weeks.
2. Submit a statement of intent, a deposit, or both.
b. Should recognize the problems of applicants with multiple acceptance offers, applicants who have not yet received an acceptance offer, and applicants who have not yet been informed about financial aid opportunities at schools to which they have been accepted.
c. Should permit accepted applicants to remain on other schools' or programs' waiting lists and to withdraw if they later receive an acceptance offer from a preferred school or program. "
https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/recommendations/62826/policies_admissionofficers.html
