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Was accepted earlier today at Chicago campus as well! Super excited and best of luck to everyone else
Congratulations!!!!
Congratulations!!!Same as above
Hey guys. I got in off the first quartile of the waitlist yesterday. They asked me what campus I wanted, and I said Chicago, which they said they could do. But they gave me until tomorrow at noon to decide, and after talking it over with my partner last night (who is having a horrible time finding a job near the acceptance I'm already holding, so I wanted to discuss the option), I'm declining the spot today. This was the hardest call I've had to make so far, and I'm actually feeling kind of bummed today. I feel selfish for taking the acceptance that's better for me while my partner is making years of sacrifices for my benefit. (He is the best!) But the good news for you guys is that there's still waitlist movement to be had! Good luck!
If I am on the waitlist, how long should I wait before resubmitting my AMCAS for next year's cycle?
That's hard, I'm sorry to hear you're in this spot. Unfortunately, if you're not able to defer and you withdraw from the waitlist, your chances at UICOM are shot for the future - unless you have a good reason as to why you're deferring, e.g.-family emergencies requiring your time.I'm in a really tight spot. I'm in the 1st quartile but I'm hoping to not get accepted. I had been planning to defer this year all along, but as far as I can tell you cannot defer off of the waitlist, so if they offer me a spot I'd have to turn it down, with all the negative repercussions that would entail for my future (ie this week's lol) reapplication.
At the same time, UIC is my top choice as well as the school I am far most likely to be accepted to, as evidenced by the fact it was the only school to give me an interview this cycle. If I withdraw from the waitlist, I feel like I'd be severely damaging my chances at getting another interview/acceptance here when I reapply.
My wishful thinking would be to get accepted here and be allowed to defer. Failing that, I'd prefer to never get off the waitlist and just reapply this cycle. Apparently the list is moving quite steadily at this point, so while it may slow down as the summer advances and the dust from movements at other schools settles, I am worrying that I may get pulled since I am first quartile. For all I know I may receive a call offering an acceptance tomorrow, and I'd be screwed if they don't allow me to defer. What do you guys think I should do, withdraw from the waitlist?
Hi everyone! I just got an email saying my rejection letter was sent in error, and I've been invited to interview next week. Has anyone else gotten this? Not sure how likely this kind of administrative error is, so I'm trying to figure out if it's truly an error or if it's just that not enough students have matriculated...
Hi everyone! I just got an email saying my rejection letter was sent in error, and I've been invited to interview next week. Has anyone else gotten this? Not sure how likely this kind of administrative error is, so I'm trying to figure out if it's truly an error or if it's just that not enough students have matriculated...
That's just happened to me too. So weird.......
OMG i got in contact with the office... it's real...I'm interviewing for UIC!!!! I got rejected from ALL MD schools thus far so idk where this is coming from but I'm so grateful for this opportunity!!
OMG i got in contact with the office... it's real...I'm interviewing for UIC!!!! I got rejected from ALL MD schools thus far so idk where this is coming from but I'm so grateful for this opportunity!!
With a bunch of people getting interview offers, I guess we shouldn't expect any movement in the waitlist until those interviews are concluded. My assumption is that these guys are interviewing for outright acceptances rather than a spot on the waitlist.
My intuition is leaning towards this: As seen on the forum, there has been an abnormal amount of students withdrawing from the school compared to the past few years. As a result of this, the number of acceptees actually accepting is grossly less than what the admissions committee had estimated. Because of this, they are inviting people for interviews in order to fill the spots that are still open even after the waitlist is accepted. This is something that the admissions committee could not predict, and they are now trying to fill those spots with qualified applicants who lucked out in the screening process.
On the other hand, there could have been a glitch and qualified applicants may have been wrongly rejected pre interview. I don't know how this would change the alternate list, but I assume that it would be similar to rekrul's post. I hope that isn't the case, as it would be truly unfortunate for applicants like invisibleman023. But always prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Best of luck to everyone, and keep your heads up!
I agree with sublime. If they were interviewing for outright acceptances (as rekrul suggests), then they wouldn't have already drawn from the waitlist.
In addition, I don't think the 3rd or 4th quartile have been done yet. I think they're trying to fill those quartiles.
Do you happen to know if they've actually gotten to those quartiles before? I just kind of assumed a school like UIC never even made it past the 1st quartile of their waitlist
Yes I am, first quartile. I guess my expectations are pretty low, but I am still looking for signs of hope hahaI've done my fair share of aaking both admissions and current students, and admissions won't say and current students don't remember what quartile they were in, just that they got in in July.
Are you on the waitlist?
My intuition is leaning towards this: As seen on the forum, there has been an abnormal amount of students withdrawing from the school compared to the past few years. As a result of this, the number of acceptees actually accepting is grossly less than what the admissions committee had estimated. Because of this, they are inviting people for interviews in order to fill the spots that are still open even after the waitlist is accepted. This is something that the admissions committee could not predict, and they are now trying to fill those spots with qualified applicants who lucked out in the screening process.
On the other hand, there could have been a glitch and qualified applicants may have been wrongly rejected pre interview. I don't know how this would change the alternate list, but I assume that it would be similar to rekrul's post. I hope that isn't the case, as it would be truly unfortunate for applicants like invisibleman023. But always prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Best of luck to everyone, and keep your heads up!
Just got a call about acceptance from first quartile wait list. I'll be withdrawing though. I hope one of you still waiting will get the good news soon.
They offered me Chicago campus. Good luck!!!Which campus did they offer you, if I may ask?
AAHHHAHAHAHADSL;FHAKSDFL;
I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO CHICAGO CAMPUS.
POST-REJECTION INTERVIEW EMAIL ON JUNE 4TH
INTERVIEW ON JUNE 12TH
ACCEPTANCE ON JUNE 22ND
I'M GOING TO BE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!
When you interviewed at UIC, did they mention why they re-opened the interview cycle? I'm just curious since I'm on the wait-list and unable to get any information from the admissions office. Thanks.
AAHHHAHAHAHADSL;FHAKSDFL;
I JUST GOT ACCEPTED TO CHICAGO CAMPUS.
POST-REJECTION INTERVIEW EMAIL ON JUNE 4TH
INTERVIEW ON JUNE 12TH
ACCEPTANCE ON JUNE 22ND
I'M GOING TO BE A DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey so as to why they re-opened interview...here's what we think.
The admissions office during interview day kept saying the same thing in the email and how it was about some "error" in the system that rejected us. None of us interviewees really bought it and it became very clear that they were looking for out of state candidates during the interview day as ALL of us were from out of state. So here's what we/I concluded:
UIC had matriculated too few out of state people and they need a certain amount every year (more $$$$$$$..its nearly double tuition and total COA is 400k ballpark for OOS). So they basically decided to interview more candidates from out of state to fill their remaining spots. And as to why not pull those OOS candidates from the waitlist? I have no idea honestly...maybe it was a qualification thing? But I'm not even that great of a candidate clearly lol didn't even receive any other MD acceptance so I have no idea how this happened but I'll take it!!
And if anything, my story should serve as a reason to never give up!! You're on the waitlist for a reason (lol i was straight rejected and got in) so keep fighting for a spot, I know people who have gotten in in August...
Hey so as to why they re-opened interview...here's what we think.
The admissions office during interview day kept saying the same thing in the email and how it was about some "error" in the system that rejected us. None of us interviewees really bought it and it became very clear that they were looking for out of state candidates during the interview day as ALL of us were from out of state. So here's what we/I concluded:
UIC had matriculated too few out of state people and they need a certain amount every year (more $$$$$$$..its nearly double tuition and total COA is 400k ballpark for OOS). So they basically decided to interview more candidates from out of state to fill their remaining spots. And as to why not pull those OOS candidates from the waitlist? I have no idea honestly...maybe it was a qualification thing? But I'm not even that great of a candidate clearly lol didn't even receive any other MD acceptance so I have no idea how this happened but I'll take it!!
And if anything, my story should serve as a reason to never give up!! You're on the waitlist for a reason (lol i was straight rejected and got in) so keep fighting for a spot, I know people who have gotten in in August...
Just to get an idea of how the UofI Admissions folks think, can you advise if you are: In state or out of state, and other details? Lots of folks on the 1st quartile would probably want to evaluateDitto to Footballfan8001. I was accepted from 2nd quartile today with offer of Champaign all four years or Peoria then Champaign. I'll be declining, as well. Best of luck!
Just to get an idea of how the UofI Admissions folks think, can you advise if you are: In state or out of state, and other details? Lots of folks on the 1st quartile would probably want to evaluateWas just accepted off the alternate list (2nd quartile). Offered spots in Champaign for all four years or Peoria after a year in Champaign. Will be declining the offer though. Best of luck to everyone!
Just to get an idea of how the UofI Admissions folks think, can you advise if you are: In state or out of state, and other details? Lots of folks on the 1st quartile would probably want to evaluate
Wow, people are getting accepted from the 2nd quartile and here I am, still languishing in the 1st quartile with no love being shown. This school is crazy, in the sense that if you're gonna go through the trouble of establishing quartiles-and communicating them to applicants!-you should honor them. Otherwise, you're misleading people and throwing their planning out of whack. I personally don't care because I submitted my AMCAS for 2016 cycle a long time ago, but it's the principle of the thing.
Yeah, I guess they may be trying to have a racially diverse class. I'm ORM though and accepted off waitlist from 2nd quartile, so I don't really know.
Ok, so let's play a little detective game and try to figure out exactly what happened here. We already know the following:
1) People were not passed over because of in-state status, since we have members here in the 1st quartile who are in state and did not get a phone call, while some in-state people who were in the 2nd quartile did.
2) It's not because of gender, since we have people from 2nd quartile of both genders getting the call.
3) It's not URM status, since we have at least 1 ORM getting the call.
So, could it be specific racial preference? Let's try to get some more data points, either from the lucky peeps who got the call or from 1st quartile peeps who did not, or preferably both. I'll start:
Quartile: 1st
Got acceptance: No
Parameters: White, male, in-state