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realitysickness said:
I don't think anyone has. Everyone who doesn't receive the A up front seems to be waitlisted until they fill their class. We are then rejected at the end. I interviewed in late October and decided to bite the bullet and contact Admissions. I was told the following:

"Currently, your application is under review with our admissions committee. Unfortunately, we do not have an exact time as to when you will receive a decision. Until your receive a rejection notice, your file will remain viable and continue to be reviewed for a position in our incoming class."
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I'm assuming I'm on the waitlist until I hear otherwise. Though I will say my friend who was accepted last year said she knew people that got acceptances a week before the Second Look day.
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realitysickness said:
I don't think anyone has. Everyone who doesn't receive the A up front seems to be waitlisted until they fill their class. We are then rejected at the end. I interviewed in late October and decided to bite the bullet and contact Admissions. I was told the following:

"Currently, your application is under review with our admissions committee. Unfortunately, we do not have an exact time as to when you will receive a decision. Until your receive a rejection notice, your file will remain viable and continue to be reviewed for a position in our incoming class."
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Thanks for asking for us. It's pretty tough for applicants that we don't get some sort of idea on where we stand. I feel like a lot of other schools have at least some sort of timeline with regards to giving applicants a decision. I'm also going to assume a waitlist.
 
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Have any merit scholarships other than the Geffen been given out? On interview day Dean Hall said that they give full tuition awards too.
 
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Does anybody know when the acceptances are gonna be released for people who interviewed in November/December?
 
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Super creepy of me, but I found a UCLA DGSOM Class of 2023 facebook group that was created about a week ago. Right now there are only 7 members, and 4 of them are admins. Looks like they've only accepted a few applicants???
 
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McDr said:
Super creepy of me, but I found a UCLA DGSOM Class of 2023 facebook group that was created about a week ago. Right now there are only 7 members, and 4 of them are admins. Looks like they've only accepted a few applicants???
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They’ve accepted quite a few people, just based off this thread. It looks like only a few of the acceptees have joined the group.
 
McDr said:
Super creepy of me, but I found a UCLA DGSOM Class of 2023 facebook group that was created about a week ago. Right now there are only 7 members, and 4 of them are admins. Looks like they've only accepted a few applicants???
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No, it's because the school hasn't sent us an email yet...
 
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Congratulations, DGSOM Prime Class of 2023!!

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...prime/class-of-2023+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Assuming this is still tentative as kids may choose to go elsewhere but still interesting that this page was published at some point.
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The PRIME program is a dual degree program, which means that the class will graduate 1+ years later than the cohort that they started with. That confused me at first too, but I believe that the page is referring to last year's accepted class! News for current PRIME folks is not expected to come out until early March.
 
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burb said:
The PRIME program is a dual degree program, which means that the class will graduate 1+ years later than the cohort that they started with. That confused me at first too, but I believe that the page is referring to last year's accepted class! News for current PRIME folks is not expected to come out until early March.
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ahh makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the clarification!
 
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They started to let accepted student into the class of 2023 facebook page. I know that some of you have the temptation to use it as a way to estimate how many students are accepted, just keep in mind that there are medical students(who aren't admin) in the group too.
 
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Laix said:
They started to let accepted student into the class of 2023 facebook page. I know that some of you have the temptation to use it as a way to estimate how many students are accepted, just keep in mind that there are medical students(who aren't admin) in the group too.
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What is the page called?
 
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The previous groups have like 440+ people in them so you're totally right. I guess we just have to take the number with a grain of salt!
 
Totally floored. Just got accepted by UCLA. Only received email to check portal and I thought that must mean I was rejected or waitlisted, but turns out it was an acceptance!
 
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Also got an acceptance! Super excited for this one.

This might be a dumb question, but is accepting the offer of admission a binding decision? They say we have 10 business days to respond, but finances are a consideration for me and I'm still waiting to hear from some schools.
 
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Welp, late October interviewee here sitting in silence, guess it's the WL. :/
 
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ENZm3Qk5 said:
Also got an acceptance! Super excited for this one.

This might be a dumb question, but is accepting the offer of admission a binding decision? They say we have 10 business days to respond, but finances are a consideration for me and I'm still waiting to hear from some schools.
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Congrats! When did you interview?
 
ENZm3Qk5 said:
Also got an acceptance! Super excited for this one.

This might be a dumb question, but is accepting the offer of admission a binding decision? They say we have 10 business days to respond, but finances are a consideration for me and I'm still waiting to hear from some schools.
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It’s not binding. It says that next to the commit to enroll option.
 
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It’s not binding. It says that next to the commit to enroll option.
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Yeah that was my bad. Probably reflected in my CARS score :smack:. I was on the initial accept/decline page so I hadn't clicked through to the plan/commit to enroll stuff yet
 
realitysickness said:
Totally floored. Just got accepted by UCLA. Only received email to check portal and I thought that must mean I was rejected or waitlisted, but turns out it was an acceptance!
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ENZm3Qk5 said:
Also got an acceptance! Super excited for this one.

This might be a dumb question, but is accepting the offer of admission a binding decision? They say we have 10 business days to respond, but finances are a consideration for me and I'm still waiting to hear from some schools.
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Congrats to you both! What time did you receive the emails?
 
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Do we think the acceptance wave was last night, or it was just a few emails? I thought they usually called for acceptances.
 
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They only call if you receive a scholarship.

I hope the acceptance wave wasn’t last night. I interviewed Mid-November and am so nervous!
 
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Just got an email to check status...accepted! Interviewed end of November, OOS
 
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Just got accepted via portal as well! Interviewed late October, OOS! Wow :)
 
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stephthelorax said:
Just got accepted via portal as well! Interviewed late October, OOS! Wow :)
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Same eep!! Loved the interview day and the school :D

Does anyone know if there's still a chance of receiving a merit scholarship later on if we didn't get one with our initial acceptance? UCLA is...surprisingly more expensive than a few private med schools I've been accepted to so far, which was kind of a damper.
 
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chick_fil_eyyy said:
Same eep!! Loved the interview day and the school :D

Does anyone know if there's still a chance of receiving a merit scholarship later on if we didn't get one with our initial acceptance? UCLA is...surprisingly more expensive than a few private med schools I've been accepted to so far, which was kind of a damper.
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Someone on here did receive a Geffen a few weeks after acceptance. Admissions, as far as I know, also hasn't released any other merit scholarships yet.

Regarding finances, UCLA isn't super expensive after you exhaust all your resources. For one, you can reclassify to in-state after a year, which reduces tuition by 12K a year. Secondly, they have fairly good financial aid (probably not as good as some other T10 privates, but still acceptable). Finally, their predicted COA is pretty high - to the point where I doubt you will reach it every year. For example, they allocate about 5K a year in transportation, which I think is a lot and very unlikely anyone would actually reach that number. Also, their housing budget is based on the most expensive on-campus apartment option, an option that you likely won't use for all four years.
 
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chick_fil_eyyy said:
Same eep!! Loved the interview day and the school :D

Does anyone know if there's still a chance of receiving a merit scholarship later on if we didn't get one with our initial acceptance? UCLA is...surprisingly more expensive than a few private med schools I've been accepted to so far, which was kind of a damper.
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Congrats! When did you interview?
 
Never got a secondary here but this morning got a notification someone looked at my LinkedIn profile from UCLA DG-SOM and then a few hours later got the R. :rolleyes: Just thought it was a little funny.
 
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wontonsoup said:
Never got a secondary here but this morning got a notification someone looked at my LinkedIn profile from UCLA DG-SOM and then a few hours later got the R. :rolleyes: Just thought it was a little funny.
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Lol, better update that profile! And here I was thinking that they had wayyyy too many applicants to be snooping about online....
 
For those you who got accepted last Friday, did your acceptance letter say anything about scholarships?
 
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