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I hope it starts moving soon. Are you IS?
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2015-2016 Eastern Virginia Medical School Application Thread
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Great news that there is at least a little movement! Kind of bummed though since I don't really have anything to update my schools on.
I'm OOS, but it's the ideal situation for me. Focus on primary care (peds), furthest south of my choices, in a city without the big city intimidation effect. I got told to F*** off 3 times while walking to one of my interviews in a big city. The students told me that it's a common colloquial greeting lol
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Interviewed the last day available here...I forgot to ask them during the interview day how long it would take to find out if/where I am on the waitlist.
Give it 2 weeks.
I am not sure about that I personally interviewed on 03/11/16 and have not heard anything. I have called several times and they said they haven't gotten there yet.
Most people hear back between 2-4 weeks. It's not bad that you haven't heard back yet, but it is unusual.
Has anyone who interviewed the week of the 13th or the 20th hear back yet?
Just withdrew my acceptance from here.
Hope one of guys/gals on the waitlist gets it! Good luck!
Hope one of guys/gals on the waitlist gets it! Good luck!
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I just called them and they said the thirds never shift, just some people can be pulled off before may
Thank you!! Are you IS or OS? (please be OS..)
Waitlisted just now Upper 1/3 (feels like most people get the upper 1/3)
Interviewed the week of 3/20
How many people come off the upper 1/3?
Interviewed the week of 3/20
How many people come off the upper 1/3?
The consensus number is ~80. But EVMS likes to have a 50/50 split of IS/OOS, so that will play into it.
The waitlist is like 400 right? So the upper 1/3 is still ~133
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I thought it was about 300? People will being to withdraw as well.
Around traffic day, people will start withdrawing their waitlists.
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80 people of the class come from the waitlist or only 80 acceptances from the waitlist? i also have a feeling that they interviewed more people this year
I got the waitlist email today as well. I am in the middle third. They assured me that it is not totally over since they can potentially accept from anywhere in the waitlist.
Waitlist email today. Middle third. 500 total on waitlist that was notified. I talked with a previous alumnus and he said they consider people from all over the waitlist and try to accept people most similar to the people who passed up in order to keep diversity. So here's hoping my doppelganger rejects EVMS.
I haven't seen any recent acceptances. Welcome to the club.
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we should try and find out how specific the demographics are that they pull off from the waitlist. i assume its more specific than OOS male getting replaced by an OOS male. also 500 people on the waitlist is huge
Any clue as to when financial aid package will come out?
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I've been told that the school will consider letters of intent and updates, and that keeping in contact every few weeks helps as well.
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What would one do to keep in contact every few weeks anyways? Just say you're still interested in the school?
Some information I got from calling the Office today, probably mentioned before but restating: they said they do select off WL based off demographics like OOS vs IS, M vs F. I also interpreted that it seems they do not necessarily pick off the top 1/3rd of the WL and may instead choose from other tiers, based on factors I don't know; but I may have understood this wrong.
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ya i know people who were on the top 1/3 last year and didnt come off but people from middle third did. thats why i think the selection demographics are more specific than just OOS or IS M or F
Does OOS move more than IS?
I think so and female OOS moved alot more last year than male..as far as SDN.
Do you know if they prefer letters to be sent to the admissions office (like when sending in updates) or did the M1 send it straight to the dean?
I honestly have no idea. The person told me about sending the letter like back in September, but the admissions office is super friendly, if you call and ask they could probably tell you who the best person to send it to is
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i think OOS people are more likely to be pulled off since most IS people hold on to their acceptance plus OOS tuition is really expensive which will make more students decline the offer
So this is what I gathered from my phone call with them. There's 490 people on the waitlist, most of which will be selected from the top 1/3. However for diversity they will select from all over.
And the website says ~300 acceptances overall. If we conservatively assume only 150 sent by March 30, that means 150/490 will be accepted. If there are ~163 per third and nearly all WL applicants come from the top 1/3 (have seen figures such as 80-90 and even 99% in past threads) then at least 130 of the top third should be safe, maybe even 146 if you use 90%.
That leaves the top 1/3 people with pretty good odds.... Of course these numbers are extremely speculative and should not be trusted. Still encouraging though
I wonder how many on the top 1/3 have multiple acceptance as well.
Where did you get the 80% of people in top 1/3 got in?
I would assume they send more than 150 acceptances though so your numbers may be too high.
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I believe that they would have already offered at least 200+ acceptances for yield protection.
I think when someone called with one of the last interview invites, the lady on the phone told her that they were pretty much interviewing for a waitlist spot. Plus at the beginning of march when I got my position, I was told there were about 360 on the waitlist, now there's 490, so I would think not that many people were given acceptances recently.
I can confirm, openly admitted there were no open acceptances left to give at my interview (the last one).
The 80% came from the quick math in my post. Numbers used were extremely conservative though. Recalc based on 200ish acceptances instead of the 150 I used would mean 100 taken overall with maybe 80 taken from top 1/3 so that's still a decent 50% chance for top third people
It's all meaningless speculation though as I said
It's all meaningless speculation though as I said
