Congrats to all the II's! On a less exciting note... I just logged in and it says I was Rejected on 1/3/2014? Does this mean they've rejected me and just messed up the date? Given how NYU has handled rejections in the past (they email everyone who wasn't granted an interview after their season has ended), I'm wondering if this is worth contacting them about.
Same. I'm wondering if they are finding the people they want to interview, then uploading all this stuff, then repeat.
You are looking in September, right?
yep, looked all the way through to October.
The third time's the charm. After clicking a date and getting error messages two times it finally worked the third time. These days were available: September 9-11, Tuesday-Thursday of the following week and Monday-Wednesday of the week after that I believe.
I just sent an email because I checked again today and my letters of recommendation are still marked as not received even though they were sent from AMCAS on 7/18. I'll let you know if I hear anything.
Okay, thanks! That makes me feel less worried. Not that I'm ever not feeling worried during this process...
My gut is telling me that it was an IT glitch that accidentally revealed our rejected status before the date of 1/3/2015; which would be when they were planning to announce them (Consistent with SDN threads from previous years). Of course I'd love to be wrong and still in contention for an II, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
I emailed them and, like Temerit said, they told me "we are having technical difficulties and are working with the developer. This should be resolved in a few days. Please check your application then. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Please know that this will have no effect on the processing of your application."
I concur; from looking at the past thread they end their interview season in December (which means the last II's go out sometime in November); but they don't reject anyone until after the season ends in January. Although I'd love to go to NYU, I'd appreciate if they were like Pritzker and told me now that I was no longer under consideration.
I really don't understand why they don't. What could be the rationale for why they wait? Do they change their minds or something?
Because look at it from their perspective; they have 100% of the power in this situation. This isn't like purchasing a car where the buyer can take their money elsewhere if the dealer is being unreasonable; there is zero incentive for a medical school to tell us early because of the 1/100000 freak chance they change their mind and decide to interview someone they previously had in the reject pile. It's not courteous to make people wait until January if a final decision was made in July, but there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.
I didn't really notice the withdraw button until I read your post. I could totally see myself clicking that while my brain is off somewhere else. Scary, hopefully you get it resolved. It's weird that they put it there so obvious, almost inviting...
