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I counted 13 WL reported on SDN alone today. MSAR says they only WLed 20-30 last year. So I would say it’s likely all the WL went out today?
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20-30 seems like a super small waitlist
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MSAR WL: 10-30
Offers granted off WL: 40(?)
Hey man, I hear ya. Just reporting the stats lol
I honestly think that acceptances will go out tomorrow then rejections next week
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You are cracking me up hahaha
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You have been accepted to three schools already! CALM DOWN! It will be ok haha
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I know I know, it’s just one of my top choices and I’m tired of waiting. Six whole months
Think of it this way... if you don't get in, you will have less debt. if you do, then YAY for your top choice! at the end of the day, you will be a doctor and that is what matters most
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Did you just get the email now?
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still no result lol fully prepared for an R to cope with the sadness
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Yup yup 3:23 pm
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Noooo the wave of acceptances must be coming soon!
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R just now. Fly you fools.
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Also got the r, interviewed on the last day so hopes weren't high going in, but still really liked the school :/
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also R. I am just glad i can move on
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Withdrew my acceptance this morning, best of luck to everyone waiting!
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Is anybody else still waiting for their post interview decision here? I still haven't been told anything and I thought they said we'd hear back by April 15th...
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Any current students know how clerkships are graded? Is AOA awarded before or after match?
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The student handbook outlines all the policies (full thing here: https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/faculty/pdf/geisel_student_policy_handbook_public.pdf ), but here's the relevant excerpt:
Your Student Academic Profile
During the first two years, no formal rank list is generated. Student promotion from year to year is based only on the student’s total academic record (courses passed, courses failed, and courses passed but only marginally). At the end of the third year, it becomes necessary to generate a more detailed academic profile of each student that considers overall academic achievements, and helps determine standing within a class. For example, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) the national medical honor society, begins to select members at the end of the third year, and students are eligible if they are within the top quarter of the class academically. Other criteria for election to AOA are then applied to students in the top quarter, including citizenship, leadership, character, and community service. While in fourth year internship and residency programs, the AOA insists on seeing: • Student’s overall academic record as documented on the academic transcript • How grades are distributed within each clerkship • How a student stands within his or her own class based on academic performance At the end of year 4, the top quarter of the class is also eligible to graduate from Geisel with honors. The relative academic position of each student is based on the number of honors in the six core clerkships in year 3.
There are 180 members on facebook accepted list for a class target of 92 students
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Assuming that every accepted student is already on this facebook list, 87 accepted students need to withdraw their acceptance before one of us on the waiting list is offered a spot. Not a favorable situation to start with?
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Assuming that every accepted student is already on this facebook list, 87 accepted students need to withdraw their acceptance before one of us on the waiting list is offered a spot. Not a favorable situation to start with?
Yeah. But are none of them current students? And perhaps some of them have withdrawn but haven't left the group? Lots of speculation here.There are 180 members on facebook accepted list for a class target of 92 students
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Assuming that every accepted student is already on this facebook list, 87 accepted students need to withdraw their acceptance before one of us on the waiting list is offered a spot. Not a favorable situation to start with?
True, but there must be some accepted, but not part of the facebook group. You're right, we don't know and certainly hard to tell. We can only try to make sense of data we have access to.
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Seems unlikely. Think about what it would imply to have 0 waitlist movement: the adcom would have had to perfectly predicted their yield assuming a fixed number of new entrants. Any overestimate and you're over-enrolled, any underestimate and you don't have a full class. It's hard for me to imagine that ANY school would make so many outright acceptance offers that they would have a non-negligible chance of no waitlist movement--because that would imply they are taking at least an equivalent (if not greater!) chance of being over-enrolled.
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Speaking of yield, about to send in my withdrawal email. Hoping y’all see waitlist movement soon 
If you don't mind sharing, were you part of facebook accepted list?Speaking of yield, about to send in my withdrawal email. Hoping y’all see waitlist movement soon
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I still am, yes! Haha
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There are 180 members on facebook accepted list for a class target of 92 students
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Assuming that every accepted student is already on this facebook list, 87 accepted students need to withdraw their acceptance before one of us on the waiting list is offered a spot. Not a favorable situation to start with?
There are 180 members on facebook accepted list for a class target of 92 students
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Assuming that every accepted student is already on this facebook list, 87 accepted students need to withdraw their acceptance before one of us on the waiting list is offered a spot. Not a favorable situation to start with?
You shouldn't try to ascertain the fullness of the class or likelihood of WL movement based on the size of the Facebook group. A LOT of the group members are current students!
They said on my interview day (Early October) that they were going to shoot for 270 acceptances and the rest waitlists. Either the FB page is a very poor indicator, or they are waitlisting a lot more than last year due to the AAMC traffic rules. 
So that's possibly a good thing for everyone on the waitlist? It definitely seems like they waitlisted a ton of people based on the number of people who commented on this thread.They said on my interview day (Early October) that they were going to shoot for 270 acceptances and the rest waitlists. Either the FB page is a very poor indicator, or they are waitlisting a lot more than last year due to the AAMC traffic rules.
I can see options under "Admissions Decision" section in portal to accept or withdraw from the waitlist. I would imagine that similar options exist for accepted students? Regardless, you can send the admissions office an email to let them know.
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do you guys think dartmouth's waitlist consists of 40 people based on the msar? and they take 10-30 people off of it in a given year?
I sure hope so... But I personally don't have any idea what's accurate or not
I wonder how many people are actually on the waitlist then. Like the ones who accepted the position and don't intend to drop it for another school.
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Withdrew from here today - good luck to everyone!
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You'll need to buy your own stethoscope, reflex hammer, and tuning fork. They'll give you the option to buy other things (like an oto/opthalmoscope, bp cuff, etc), but I'd advice against buying anything other than what's required because the rest will be in every exam room you're ever going to be in.
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Withdrew yesterday, hope one of you fine homies gets my spot!
