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the committee meets on Tuesdays. I received an acceptance email on that Thursday, but they don't do emails for waitlist/rejection. Acceptance you'll get an email within a couple of days and then a letter in the mail, anything just the letter, the timeline of which I guess would just depend on where you are.
Honestly driving is going to be much easier and less of a hassle. If you think about it, going to the airport, checking in, boarding, etc. will all more than likely take around the 5 or so hours so you're not really saving any time. Parking is very easy the day of and you just have one less thing to worry about that's out of your control for the interview. I was also a 5 hour drive and didn't even think of flying.
On my interview day they said there was no ranking and that they just periodically review all of the waitlist applicants and pull people off of the list depending on what they feel they need.
If there is, no one has mentioned it here yet.
They told us everything no matter what was snail mail. Accepted, rejected or waitlist would all be through the mail, no email.
If you don't mind me asking, where do you live, I interviewed the 8th and waiting in Florida for a letter.
I currently live in Morgantown. So your letter should come next week, if not, the week after.
Interviewed same day, just got the letter today - Waitlist
Just got mine today too, waitlisted
It looks like that's the name of the course you enroll in for 4th year electives so yes, everyone does this. The caption below explains it and 4th year electives a little better. Hope that helps!
I am also wondering about this lol. Do they give you a final decision by March or is it possible until June?
I've heard the majority of OOS interviewees are waitlisted but that the waitlist does see a lot of movement. I don't have real numbers though, sorry!
As far as I know, most of the movement is in May with some trickling in the rest of the summer.
Most OOS interviewers get waitlisted (as was mentioned above). A few are rejected. They don't give out end of cycle rejections as far as I know. The school year just begins and you just assume you didn't get in. Kind of harsh, but I guess they want to keep their options open for as long as possible.
At least my year they didn't release it until late May/early June. It was a bit frustrating. The WVU SOM financial aid website has a good estimate though. Scholarships are few and far between and usually only around $5,000/year.
I've heard that, but I swear I didn't get mine until really late. I could be remembering incorrectly, but I feel like these was some reason they got them out really late and were just directing people to the WVU SOM financial aid website because that has estimates +/- a few thousand. I assume we would have known if we had gotten a big scholarship prior to this. I would ask the student services office. They'll know better than me. Maybe I just have a terrible memory (after almost 4 weeks on surgery I wouldn't be surprised! Haha).
