waitlist: claims to be unranked
waitlist: accepts students from WL on 5/1
i thought the committee had to "meet" and "discuss on an individual basis" and "choose students based on class composition"
am i bitter? yes. will i be immediately not bitter the second i get in? also yes.
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Most schools' committees put their WL students in tiers, and this may have been done quite some time ago. At this point, If a URIM female with high MCAT and GPA and strong basic science research withdraws from the class, the Director of Admissions can select a similar top tier student to replace her. The director can also see the class composition at any point and can select an appropriate student from the top tier that he/she feels will best balance the class AND whom they suspect is likely to say yes. The entire ADCOM is not needed at this point, and it is usually a very small number of people who are making the decisions at the micro level at this point.