2018-2019 Waitlist Support Thread

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I know for a fact my WL school had a $100 deposit that was non refundable past 4/30. Not sure if everyone that didn’t withdraw is committed or if they are sacrificing their 100 until they decide. I hope it’s the latter lmao
 
futuredoc0307 said:
I know for a fact my WL school had a $100 deposit that was non refundable past 4/30. Not sure if everyone that didn’t withdraw is committed or if they are sacrificing their 100 until they decide. I hope it’s the latter lmao
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My schools deposit was $500 lol
 
Dhooy7 said:
Why are DO schools deposits so much more?
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I guess cuz MD applicants tend to use DO schools as a backup and they need assurance. I think the logic is that people wouldn’t be as quick to sacrifice a $1000 deposit without fully committing.
 
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Rory_B_Bellows said:
Why aren’t schools giving a hard PTE deadline? My acceptance made it very clear that if you didn’t PTE/CTE on April 30th then you were going to lose your spot.
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Even if people PTE they still can be on waitlists or holding other late acceptances. So it’s not like PTE really tells the school that they can count on that person attending. Financial aid or waitlists could change everything
 
ClamShell said:
I think AMCAS could still be liable for lawsuits because it is their responsibility to make the process go smoothly.
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One would have to show how they were damaged by having to sit on a wait list.

Really, Clammy, leave law to the lawyers.
 
edb63 said:
Even if people PTE they still can be on waitlists or holding other late acceptances. So it’s not like PTE really tells the school that they can count on that person attending. Financial aid or waitlists could change everything
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Yea that’s a good point. The only way this system would make any sense is if every school was using the same deadlines and the guidelines weren’t “suggestions”....but here we are lol
 
introp445 said:
There really shouldn’t be a PTE option at all. It just leads to ambiguity. The April 30th deadline should be CTE and withdraw all other apps, or give up your spot at that school
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Whew, thank the Lord that isn’t the rule. That would only benefit those with no acceptances. I wouldn’t be going to my #1 because I would have had to withdraw from the WL. Also, believe it or not, some students haven’t heard back from all IIs by then. Schools also wouldn’t be able to negotiate to keep students that CTE elsewhere. Sure, they can keep their demographics by cherry picking the WL, but I think they still want a shot at those that already have been accepted.
 
Has it been established somewhere that the "5 days to respond" are business days?
 
I feel like AMCAS wouldn’t have sent out that tweet the other day unless they knew for a fact that many applicants are keeping multiple acceptances. And AMCAS can easily access that information so they would be able to know very easily..... good news for us I guess?
 
ClamShell said:
I feel like AMCAS wouldn’t have sent out that tweet the other day unless they knew for a fact that many applicants are keeping multiple acceptances. And AMCAS can easily access that information so they would be able to know very easily..... good news for us I guess?
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Idk what any of this means these days
 
ClamShell said:
I feel like AMCAS wouldn’t have sent out that tweet the other day unless they knew for a fact that many applicants are keeping multiple acceptances. And AMCAS can easily access that information so they would be able to know very easily..... good news for us I guess?
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good point
 
Schools not enforcing PTE could be why the AMCAS sent out that tweet?

I spoke to admissions at one school recently and they said they were being less stringent on enforcing PTE, but would aggressively enforce CTE. They said they emailed students who hadn't selected and asked them to select PTE one week after the 4/30 deadline. For the CTE date, they said they would send an email the day after to students who hadn't selected CTE and give them 24 hours to select otherwise they would lose their spot.
 
oil_rig said:
@gyngyn if i've understood you correctly in previous comments, it seems many schools (I know you can't speak for all medical schools, but it appears you've got a pretty good pulse on what's going on nationally?) are hesitating to put out WL offers due to their blindedness of what their PTE/CTE students might still have on the side, right?

I guess they are just being rational self-interested actors, which is fair and the least we can expect of any party here. Given this framework of self-interest, what is the critical point that needs to be reached for this standoff to pass lol?

Edit: and if they can't even enforce a CTE, barring a specific contract of withdrawal, what is the difference between their confidence in yield the day after a CTE deadline passes and a month before?
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Yes. Even the ones offering off the waitlist are doing so with imperfect information (and having massively under-accepted, as a strategy).

It's not even self-interest, exactly. The purpose of the admissions team is to fill the class. Over-filling is in no one's interest (inadequate resources, clinical sites...)

AMCAS CTE "deadlines" mean little and PTE means nothing.
 
gyngyn said:
Yes. Even the ones offering off the waitlist are doing so with imperfect information (and having massively under-accepted, as a strategy).

It's not even self-interest, exactly. The purpose of the admissions team is to fill the class. Over-filling is in no one's interest (inadequate resources, clinical sites...)

AMCAS CTE "deadlines" mean little and PTE means nothing.
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Thanks a ton for the response. but the standoff must end, schools can't have empty chairs on Day 1...do you have any idea what it will take at your schools and/or its peer?
 
CTE deadline can’t be when this game of musical chairs begins, right? Since CTE means dropping all of your waitlists as well.

Unless people just ignore the CTE deadline too... in which case all of the shuffling would be settled in 2-3 days of chaos after schools begin to enforce it on their own.
 
LabileEmotions said:
It is not clear to me why schools such as Harvard, Penn and Stanford that have had consistent and typically high yields in the past would "massively-underaccept". I get that they may have underaccepted somewhat this year, but massively so? Sure, they're operating with imperfect information, and the information is incomplete, but they know from past experience typical yields (which is unlikely, in the end, to change this year, despite the new traffic rules), they know the many students who have already CTE'd and they know only a small percentage of those who have PTE'd are likely to get in off waitlists. So I suspect it is a bit less problematic for the very top school.

But If what gyngyn say is true, there will be major movement very late in the cycle when schools bump up against their CTE deadlines. Chaos will then truly reign.
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IIRC gyngyn is an adcom at a 'top' school and they have suggested this is a problem at their own school.

I think the only thing we truly know is no one knows anything right now, we're all just reading tea leaves lol
 
LabileEmotions said:
It is not clear to me why schools such as Harvard, Penn and Stanford that have had consistent and typically high yields in the past would "massively-underaccept". I get that they may have underaccepted somewhat this year, but massively so? Sure, they're operating with imperfect information, and the information is incomplete, but they know from past experience typical yields (which is unlikely, in the end, to change this year, despite the new traffic rules), they know the many students who have already CTE'd and they know only a small percentage of those who have PTE'd are likely to get in off waitlists. So I suspect it is a bit less problematic for the high yield schools.

But If what gyngyn say is true, there will be major movement very late in the cycle when schools bump up against their CTE deadlines. Chaos will then truly reign.
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I am not saying that all schools massively under-accepted.
I am saying that it is a reasonable strategy for schools to under-accept (given historic norms) in a cycle without information, like this one.
It could also be a strategy for some schools to dramatically under-accept.
 
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LabileEmotions said:
It is not clear to me why schools such as Harvard, Penn and Stanford that have had consistent and typically high yields in the past would "massively-underaccept". I get that they may have underaccepted somewhat this year, but massively so? Sure, they're operating with imperfect information, and the information is incomplete, but they know from past experience typical yields (which is unlikely, in the end, to change this year, despite the new traffic rules), they know the many students who have already CTE'd and they know only a small percentage of those who have PTE'd are likely to get in off waitlists. So I suspect it is a bit less problematic for the high yield schools.

But If what gyngyn say is true, there will be major movement very late in the cycle when schools bump up against their CTE deadlines. Chaos will then truly reign.
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I think yield for these schools will be changing though, but not because of the new tool. Instead, because of the better financial aid packages offered by other schools (NYU, Columbia, Cornell, etc.). Competition for top students is becoming more fierce!
 
sherm123 said:
I think this thread needs more memes to keep morale high. Anyone have some dank memes they would like to share?
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LabileEmotions said:
But If what gyngyn say is true, there will be major movement very late in the cycle when schools bump up against their CTE deadlines. Chaos will then truly reign.
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I hope this isn’t the case, sounds like a stupid system. I was fortunate enough to get an acceptance earlier in the cycle, but this school has one of the earlier CTE deadlines (July 1st, two weeks before most other schools on July 15). I am still holding out on some waitlists that I would be forced to drop on July 1st, simply because my school happens to have an earlier deadline...

Not really sure why schools can’t just enforce the PTE deadline. It sounds like some schools have, but based on the tweet it sounds like a lot of applicants are still holding onto their acceptances.
 
OchemOficionado said:
Whew, thank the Lord that isn’t the rule. That would only benefit those with no acceptances. I wouldn’t be going to my #1 because I would have had to withdraw from the WL. Also, believe it or not, some students haven’t heard back from all IIs by then. Schools also wouldn’t be able to negotiate to keep students that CTE elsewhere. Sure, they can keep their demographics by cherry picking the WL, but I think they still want a shot at those that already have been accepted.
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I might be wrong, but I'm guessing they meant withdraw all apps from school you hold acceptances at. That would benefit everyone as long as schools were also required to provide financial info prior to 30 April.
 
@Goro I am assuming you’re a faculty at DO from previous postings. I was just looking at match data for an osteopathic school for 2019 and noticed a dramatic change of the ratio of ACGME/AOA of matched applicants.
(2018 1.39/1 whereas 2019 is 7/1). Is there something special about 2019 or is this random? If I’m not mistaken I thought the merger doesn’t happen until 2020.
 
futuredoc0307 said:
@Goro I am assuming you’re a faculty at DO from previous postings. I was just looking at match data for an osteopathic school for 2019 and noticed a dramatic change of the ratio of ACGME/AOA of matched applicants.
(2018 1.39/1 whereas 2019 is 7/1). Is there something special about 2019 or is this random? If I’m not mistaken I thought the merger doesn’t happen until 2020.
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A good number of AOA programs have already become ACGME ones (like Henry Ford in MI). Hence, the ACGME match numbers have gone up.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
I might be wrong, but I'm guessing they meant withdraw all apps from school you hold acceptances at. That would benefit everyone as long as schools were also required to provide financial info prior to 30 April.
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They said apps, not acceptances and CTE which means to withdraw from WL . . . but maybe so.
 
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