1) They didn’t accept more than 40 people off the waitlist last cycle (they barely broke 30 by late July). My source for that is last year’s thread and I know people who were in the 50-60 range and were not accepted
🙁
2) The waitlist FAQ for this year says the waitlist is 268 people. That is 89-90 people in the top third so if this year is like last year, the top third of the top third has a decent shot, but definitely make a plan B no matter where you are on the waitlist. I don’t want to be a Debbie downer but AMCAS for the 2021 cycle can be submitted as early as May 28th so it can really hurt someone’s cycle if we give too much false hope. I know in the years before last year they accepted 60-70 people off the waitlist, but that was before the pretty substantial changes to the traffic rules that started last year.
3) I emailed Nelson Strother last year to ask my position and he replied within a few hours. He is still telling people their relative position this year based on the post from
@Chickenluv27 🙂
P.S. all these numbers are for instate people. They can legally matriculate only 17 OOS students so I am almost positive there is a separate waitlist for OOS.
