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@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.
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.
Praying starting Monday that this is the week for all of us!
lol I feel like some discussions that took place on this thread have probably encouraged some individuals to keep holding onto multiple A, which would be a reason to cripple waitlist movement.
like what?
if you scroll up there has been discussions about the lack of legitimacy of the traffic rules and the nonexistent consequences of not following them.
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?
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?
FACTS. I completely agree with you.
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You don’t. Which is why you spend your initial app year improving your app for your second app year.
well that wasn't happening.
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In that case the best thing you can do is simply change your school list.
Can't do that either...lol. Only thing I can change is my PS.
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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...
Hopefully this is a day of S I G N I F I C A N T M O V E M E N T
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Sooooo... for those schools that haven’t accepted anyone off the waitlist yet... what are you waiting for!!!???
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!
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
pokemon9264
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Another week! Good luck everyone who's still waiting to hear back. 🙂
Around 2.5 per seat is normal.
It's probably more like double this year.
so, what exactly does that mean though? do they over-accept at any given moment? or it is throughout the cycle?
@gyngyn is the longer you have been on the waitlist a sign that you are unlikely to be coming off the waitlist?
Probably depends on the school, but I know people who have gotten in off the waitlist after being on it for a very long time.
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?
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!
Hahahahaha. Yes sir !
That sort of scares me . Hahaha
When should i accept my chances of getting in are 0?
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.
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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get a phone call --> panic --> "hello this is doctor-" --> heart attack --> turns out it's a robocall from my pcp who's moving offices 
After waitlist movement begins, your rating will affect the time until you are called.
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Got onto 3 wait lists (Drexel, Temple, and NJMS).
This is gonna be a fun few months...
This is gonna be a fun few months...
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.
It's one of the Dark Arts as to how Admissions Deans always pull these off. Think of it as overbooking like airlines do.
Airlines drag you off their flights tho.........
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?
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.
I see... Thank you. what a strange circumstance for some schools to follow the AAMC guidelines and others to not.
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Sorry to bother but..... do you know anything about the movement at Wake Forest?
Sorry to bother but..... do you know anything about the movement at Wake Forest?
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