2014-2015 University of Vermont Application Thread

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womanofscience said:
I want to go here so badly, but I have another option that is 1/2 the price. Really wishing for some deus ex machina in the next 24 hours or so :/
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it's probably safe to assume you've contacted them, but maybe try speaking with them on the phone and talk to them about the situation? I'd imagine a few scholarships will be "released" april 30th, maybe they can sort of preliminary promise you one over the phone...it's not a great situation to be in, i'm sorry and I hope you get some good news quickly!
 
bostonite said:
it's probably safe to assume you've contacted them, but maybe try speaking with them on the phone and talk to them about the situation? I'd imagine a few scholarships will be "released" april 30th, maybe they can sort of preliminary promise you one over the phone...it's not a great situation to be in, i'm sorry and I hope you get some good news quickly!
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I'm going to try to call very soon! I did send them an email recently, but still waiting on a reply. This is an amazing school/state (so much better than Virginia) and I definitely know some of the merit scholarship awardees are matriculating elsewhere!
 
womanofscience said:
I'm going to try to call very soon! I did send them an email recently, but still waiting on a reply. This is an amazing school/state (so much better than Virginia) and I definitely know some of the merit scholarship awardees are matriculating elsewhere!
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That's great, I wish you the best of luck, I sincerely hope it works out!
 
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Good luck to the people on the wait list! The fact you're holding out for it shows a lot more how much you want UVM vs another school. Hopefully it's you fine people who I can agonize together with over the step 1 my first week in med school here 🙂
 
PreciousHamburgers said:
Does that mean you got some aid? Or you are going there no matter what?
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I received some aid 😀 The scholarship doesn't completely ameliorate the cost difference between the last two schools, but I guess that extra money is worth my happiness over the next four years. My SO and I looked at the numbers (using MedLoans Calculator) and the repayment doesn't look too bad!
 
womanofscience said:
I received some aid 😀 The scholarship doesn't completely ameliorate the cost difference between the last two schools, but I guess that extra money is worth my happiness over the next four years. My SO and I looked at the numbers (using MedLoans Calculator) and the repayment doesn't look too bad!
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Congrats!!
 
has anyone been accepted off the waitlist this week? I read that the committee meets on Wednesdays, and I know that the deadline to hold only one acceptance is today (April 30)....I wonder when the first wave of acceptances from the waitlist will be. Fingers crossed! :\
 
C7H8N4O2 said:
has anyone been accepted off the waitlist this week? I read that the committee meets on Wednesdays, and I know that the deadline to hold only one acceptance is today (April 30)....I wonder when the first wave of acceptances from the waitlist will be. Fingers crossed! :\
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Nope, but I bet we're all thinking the same thing! Good luck everyone!
 
I dont know if this will help anyone but it may save someone a call:

Spoke with someone from admissions today and she said that when someone withdraws, they try to fill that spot with an applicant who matches their Residency status. As in if an OOS student withdraws, they will likely fill with another OOS and vice-versa for IS. While this is not surprising necessarily, it is nice to know they will not be accepting solely OOS wait listers for financial reasons.

With this info, for anyone who decides to withdraw from UVM in the future and decides to post about that on SDN... maybe mention whether you were IS or OOS? Might help some of us neurotic Wait Listers
 
Who do we email about asking for additional loans for health insurance? I guess that pushes the price tag up to $340K+ eek!
 
Does anyone know how much waitlist turnover there has been for in-state applicants in the past?
 
C7H8N4O2 said:
Does anyone know how much waitlist turnover there has been for in-state applicants in the past?
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Looking through last year's thread and did a little research which might save you some time:
Last Years UVM thread from 4/24/14 on:
6 members mentioned withdrawing
13 total members accepted off Wait List
4 of those members mentioned being OOS
2 of those members mentioned being IS
Last acceptance off WL was 6/10/14
 
YAY! I got my acceptance email today (unfortunately checked it right before bed and now everyone is asleep so I have nobody I can jump up and down with...!) In-state, taken from the waitlist. I'M GOING TO UVM! I'm so excited I don't even know what to do with myself...aaaaagh!

good luck to everyone else on the waitlist, and I look forward to seeing many of you in the fall!
 
caliboydave said:
Any oos movement so far anyone?
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I could be wrong but I thought someone said they would fill all the In-State seats first. So maybe next week will have OOS movement? Unless they start making acceptances in the next 5 hours that the office is open..
 
Yea I've admittedly stopped trying to figure the system out (at least that's what I'm telling myself). I think it's purely dependent on whether people who drop their seats are IS or OOS. Thing is, there doesn't seem to be a bunch of oos acceptances yet, making me think they use the waitlist as a pool to pull from once in-state seats are filled. Wait... Didn't I say I wasn't trying to read into this anymore? Sigh...
 
zkane11 said:
I could be wrong but I thought someone said they would fill all the In-State seats first. So maybe next week will have OOS movement? Unless they start making acceptances in the next 5 hours that the office is open..
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Are you referring to the following post:
PieceOfMeat said:
Spoke with someone from admissions today and she said that when someone withdraws, they try to fill that spot with an applicant who matches their Residency status. As in if an OOS student withdraws, they will likely fill with another OOS and vice-versa for IS. While this is not surprising necessarily, it is nice to know they will not be accepting solely OOS wait listers for financial reasons.
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Being IS, I wish they were filling IS seats first but the post by PieceOfMeat shows they will fill seats as they become available with an applicant of matching residency status
 
Was expecting to see more movement today! Does anyone know of anyone else taken off the waitlist today?
 
PieceOfMeat said:
This is the kind of thing which is very frustrating as an in-state student on the waitlist. I know they only have to offer seats to 50% In-staters but after they have offered these seats they have no commitment to In-state students. This is especially problematic when you look at their class profiles for the class entering in 2014: 81 OOS 34 IS. That means that while they offered up 50% of the seats to VT residents, only 30% of the class was from VT. I know this is a stretch but with this information, I feel like anyone on the Waitlist as an in stater is as good as rejected.

Here is a potential example of this troublesome situation: 2 students, equally qualified (obviously impossible to be totally equal but humor me for a sec) are placed on the waitlist. 1 is Out of State and 1 is In state. An in state accepted student is accepted to Harvard Med and withdraws their application. Now UVM gets to decide who to offer their acceptance to: an in state student who will pay $37k/year or an Out of state student who will pay $61k/year? pretty obvious choice if you ask me. With this rant nearing its completion, please tell me, why in any scenario would UVM accept an in state student off the wait list? O well, it's only my entire life on the line, no reason to take it too seriously
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Just to clarify, UVM has no requirement to offer 50% of seats to ISS. Each year there are about 100 applicants and most students offered seats accept them. There are about 30-35 Vermonters per class of 114.
 
catamount18 said:
Just to clarify, UVM has no requirement to offer 50% of seats to ISS. Each year there are about 100 applicants and most students offered seats accept them. There are about 30-35 Vermonters per class of 114.
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isn't it better being in-state? MSAR stats say that nearly everyone who interviews instate gets in... and the only waitlist movement we've seen is from the in-state waitlist.
 
keevwu said:
isn't it better being in-state? MSAR stats say that nearly everyone who interviews instate gets in... and the only waitlist movement we've seen is from the in-state waitlist.
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yes, it does seem to be an advantage to be in-state (as is the case most places) but not everyone who interviews in-state gets in- out of 65-75 applicants who are interviewed each year, between 30-35 enroll (we don't know how many are offered a spot as people decline.) So it looks like, if you do get an interview, you have a roughly 50% shot of getting in (if all else were equal 😉 .) Out-of-staters have about a 15% chance (again, not accounting for waitlist movement.) At least, this is what the statistics seem to show. I'd be willing to bet that in-state waitlist movement happens first because there are far fewer applications to sort through in the in-state pile.
 
Is there a breakdown of the CoA on the Financial Aid website anywhere? Like housing, food, transportation, etc.?
 
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keevwu said:
isn't it better being in-state? MSAR stats say that nearly everyone who interviews instate gets in... and the only waitlist movement we've seen is from the in-state waitlist.
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My post was to correct the statement that "I know they only have to offer seats to 50% In-staters," which is not true. There are no such rules about in state students. What is true is that after April 30, empty seats go to the best available applicant, regardless of residency.
 
catamount18 said:
My post was to correct the statement that "I know they only have to offer seats to 50% In-staters," which is not true. There are no such rules about in state students. What is true is that after April 30, empty seats go to the best available applicant, regardless of residency.
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interesting, someone in this thread recently called and was told that they try to match the residency of the withdrawn student, i.e., if an OOS student withdraws, they will pull an OOS student off the wait list

i guess in the end we're all going to find out one way or another!
 
Seems like there still has been no OOS wait list movement? Wonder what is holding them up. Surely seats have opened up
 
caliboydave said:
Seems like there still has been no OOS wait list movement? Wonder what is holding them up. Surely seats have opened up
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They may have over-accepted and are still waiting for the number to fall below a certain threshold before sending out acceptances.

Also, gyngyn mentioned that there has been an unusually low amount of waitlist movement post-decision day, possibly due to the fact that many financial aid offices were not notified that the multiple acceptance deadline was moved up this year.
 
Looks like most of the movement last year wasn't until mid May though. So it is possible that we all might have to wait another week.
 
premedfire said:
Looks like most of the movement last year wasn't until mid May though. So it is possible that we all might have to wait another week.
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that's because the drop date was 5/15 last year, not 4/30 like this year
 
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