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Remember that sites also have individual profiles that shape their sense of "fit" to their specific site; they also scan carefully (especially if application numbers are small enough you can read very closely) and may have a good sense about for whom they are a "safety". They want to spend their interview time with folks who really want to match with them. Unaccredited sites know they are considered second-best and so it is not entirely "random" when they decide not to interview students if application or essays or letters may indicate they have strong odds of Matching elsewhere and that the site can see would be a better fit there too. Sometimes they also know that some schools will actively discourage ranking them and so they will prefer to see students from programs that recognize that un-accredited does not mean inadequate. But it is still true that rejection is distressing and the current problem means everyone is getting large doses of this distress.
Yes. Are you still waiting to hear from TCH?
They do this every year. For them it is an assumed rejection from what I've been told.
Congrats! I am still waiting to hear back from Manatee Glen despite writing the director an e-mail after the deadline...
I know this wont help but I saw an interview with Melvin Williams (the Baltimore drug kingpin that inspired the Barksdale story-line on HBO's The Wire) where he said that FCC Terra Haute was the scariest place in the whole BOP system. And that MFs been in alot of of em too...
