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I wouldn't say March 3rd is the "official" date, but in the past, acceptances have indeed been released on the first Monday in March. I believe most non-rolling schools aim for this date (or week) as well. Of course, no non-rolling school guarantees decisions on this day, but they do aim for it. Nonetheless, I'd say most applicants can be pretty confident to hear from Duke this year on March 3rd (acceptances) and March 4th (wait list/rejections).
I actually just had a manuscript accepted and called today to see if they would accept updates, and the admissions office lady said no. Sorry 🙁 hope that helps.
I literally called last week and they told me yes. what does that mean.....? who did you talk to? maybe they changed their mind between last week and this week i guess.
I spoke to someone in the admissions office, not sure what her name was (didn't ask, oops!). I told her I interviewed in November and when I asked if they were still taking updates, she explicitly told me they weren't accepting them anymore. I have no idea what that means with regard to what other people seem to have been told, but I probably will not be sending an update for fear of a) wasting a good update that won't be read and having nothing else to say should I be wait listed, and b) irritating admissions committee members if they are reviewing my app one last time. Probably me being neurotic, but I'm going to play the "better safe than sorry" card. That said, here's hoping we're all accepted in march! This is my far-and-away top choice.
Ha, Bucks maybe
same. i interviewed months ago. I feel like at this point decisions are being made for people who have interviewed recently.
or people who just recently filled out the post-interview survey
bahahah! SO glad you guys mentioned that on here and I made sure to do it back when I interviewed.
wait really? that can't be true. lol. that would be super ridiculous if it is.
they def didn't tell us that. good to know. I didn't fill mine out till a month after my interview TT
After some sleuthing on last year's thread the first post about MD/PhD acceptance was on Feb 21. Don't know what that means for us :/ fingers crossed!
The application portal says that there will be no phone calls this year, all decisions will be sent out via the email on file. That being said, someone on this thread previously mentioned that the committee said that decisions would be a little delayed this year. I believe the 7th was the date being thrown around
I thought only emails and status changes would be going out (based on what the application portal says)
Yeah I woke up this morning half hoping that we would hear something. But I remember them saying at my interview (I was there after the snow storm) that they were behind and that notification would come out sometime this week. So it sounded like they were not too optimistic about hitting the March 3 mark.
If only they had done that from the beginning.
