2018-2019 Waitlist Support Thread

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how should I go about asking for advice to improve my app for next year?
 
@gyngyn or another adcom member: Yea or nay to including publications "in draft" on update letters to admissions committees? My supervisor advised me to include two pubs, one I'm the first author and one I'm somewhere in the middle, but these are both yet to be submitted. Thoughts? The school I'm WL for is asking for updates if we'd like to provide them.
 
edb63 said:
how should I go about asking for advice to improve my app for next year?
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Just send an email asking for feedback. I did a phone call and email. If you're unsure if a school does it just call the admissions office and usually the people who answer the phone will know whether or not they do it.
 
There really needs to be a more concrete deadline for when each school's class must be finalized. It's extremely frustrating for those with an A with an early start time or potential re-applicants to have to start a new application cycle to potentially get pulled off a WL in August. I mean how does anyone plan?
 
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I have already opened the app and completed everything but my new PS. The thing is though is how do you change your application in less than a month?
 
drtobe5 said:
Wondering if anyone is in a similar situation here...currently accepted at a school starting in July. On waitlists at two other schools that start later this summer. How long can I realistically give these other schools before having to withdrawal and just go to the school I'm accepted to? Really would like to wait as long as possible but I'm also tired to being strung along and not being able to make moving/living plans.
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Pretty much exact situation as this and my significant other is about to kill me because we just don’t know if I have to move across the country or are able to stay at my state school...
 
drtobe5 said:
Wondering if anyone is in a similar situation here...currently accepted at a school starting in July. On waitlists at two other schools that start later this summer. How long can I realistically give these other schools before having to withdrawal and just go to the school I'm accepted to? Really would like to wait as long as possible but I'm also tired to being strung along and not being able to make moving/living plans.
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Me! Thankfully the program I got accepted to is starting in August so I have a little extra time. But I just picked a date and said If I didn’t hear by then, I would commit to going to this school. For me that’s July 12. I gave myself a month because we’ll have to move 6 hours away. Idk if a month is enough time but I can’t move in June because I’m having surgery. So July it is!
 
Luckofirish376 said:
I’m in the same position. Neither school is within driving distance to where I live so I will need to commit to housing at some point. My school that starts in July requires our semester be paid by June 15th, which I think realistically requires me to start the loan application process by early June. As of right now, I’m trying to be patient and wait it out for the program that starts in August, but come early June, I am going to need to start planning for the July program.
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Someone mentioned to me looking at the withdraw with refund date for the specific school you're accepted at. I'm in a similar situation. accepted at school 6 hours away, waitlisted at the school in my town. the waitlisted school informed me I would be notified by X date which is before the last day to withdraw with refund. SO if I get in i'm movin home lol
 
edb63 said:
I’ve been told that while schools usually accept double by 4/30 it might be different this year. Is that true? There’s a solid chance that person was just trying to make me feel better
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Around 2.5 per seat is normal.
It's probably more like double this year.
 
@gyngyn is the longer you have been on the waitlist a sign that you are unlikely to be coming off the waitlist?
 
gyngyn said:
Around 2.5 per seat is normal.
It's probably more like double this year.
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and the second question following this... I am definitely not understanding the whole process, but when you say that they offer 2.5 seats, i shouldn't worry, right? As in, if they offer me a seat and i accept it, it is definitely, 100% mine, right?
 
ReturnToMed said:
@gyngyn is the longer you have been on the waitlist a sign that you are unlikely to be coming off the waitlist?
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I do not think this is the case. If anything, a few people who were pulled off the waitlist at my only school had their interviews in October. I tend to think that those who interviewed earlier were stronger candidates to begin with, and so they are more likely to be ranked higher on the waitlist. But, that's all guessing. Good luck everyone!
 
M&L said:
and the second question following this... I am definitely not understanding the whole process, but when you say that they offer 2.5 seats, i shouldn't worry, right? As in, if they offer me a seat and i accept it, it is definitely, 100% mine, right?
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Yes. It means they have to offer that many acceptances to fill the class because people withdraw or don’t matriculate for whatever reason.

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As in, if they offer me a seat and i accept it, it is definitely, 100% mine, right?
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When I was interviewing, a school stated that they over-accept and that they weren't sure of the exact process but that the dean was a wizard or something who always worked some magic to accept the perfect number. Apparently, it's an art but yes, it's your seat.
 
Hirro said:
When I was interviewing, a school stated that they over-accept and that they weren't sure of the exact process but that the dean was a wizard or something who always worked some magic to accept the perfect number. Apparently, it's an art but yes, it's your seat.
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That sort of scares me . Hahaha
 
M&L said:
and the second question following this... I am definitely not understanding the whole process, but when you say that they offer 2.5 seats, i shouldn't worry, right? As in, if they offer me a seat and i accept it, it is definitely, 100% mine, right?
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Yes. We need to offer more than the number of available seats to fill the class.
Only rarely does a school actually accept so many that they never get to the waitlist and have an excess of students on the first day of school.
 
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ReturnToMed said:
@gyngyn is the longer you have been on the waitlist a sign that you are unlikely to be coming off the waitlist?
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After waitlist movement begins, your rating will affect the time until you are called.
 
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ReturnToMed said:
When should i accept my chances of getting in are 0?
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Ec310 said:
On the day that your school starts classes. Waiting is brutal but there’s nothing we can do but be patient and hope for the best.
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NakMuay33 said:
After the school you want to go to starts is when your probability of getting in hits 0...we are in the early days here! No end of days talk yet!
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It gets down there, but I know someone who got accepted a couple days into orientation when someone else withdrew last minute. So it’s close to zero, but anomalies still happen. Very unlikely to happen though.
 
gyngyn said:
Yes. We need to offer more than the number of available seats to fill the class.
Only rarely does a school actually accept so many that they never get to the waitlist and have an excess of students on the first day of school.
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It's one of the Dark Arts as to how Admissions Deans always pull these off. Think of it as overbooking like airlines do.
 
I guess I just don't understand how the new rules haven't forced all wait-list movement at once (sans the decision time of the committee as to whom they pull off the wait-list). On April 30th wouldn't schools have rescinded offers (or given a quick deadline) to applicants if they hadn't already narrowed down to one?
 
Did that make sense? I guess it's boiled down to what all wait-list candidates could be waiting on at this point. Like, were waiting on other candidates to CTE or PTE to a school other than their current one. But doesn't the openings trickle down from the top for the most part?
 
bearsfan95 said:
I guess I just don't understand how the new rules haven't forced all wait-list movement at once (sans the decision time of the committee as to whom they pull off the wait-list). On April 30th wouldn't schools have rescinded offers (or given a quick deadline) to applicants if they hadn't already narrowed down to one?
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Only if that specific school outlined the requirement of being down to 1 by 4/30. I'm sure most people followed the suggestion thinking it was a rule.
 
OchemOficionado said:
Only if that specific school outlined the requirement of being down to 1 by 4/30. I'm sure most people followed the suggestion thinking it was a rule.
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I see... Thank you. what a strange circumstance for some schools to follow the AAMC guidelines and others to not.
 
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