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Did any of you respond to the AC email?
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Please confirm if my understanding is correct.
I’m assuming that those who received the AC email are in a lower bucket than the waitlisted candidates. So once the waitlisted candidates get accepted and IF there are any open spots available AFTER any of these waitlisted candidates decide not to matriculate, only then the Candidates on the AC list will be offered an acceptance . Am I right?
What are the chances of this happening? Did any candidates in the AC list last year make it in? 🤔
 
sunshine09 said:
Please confirm if my understanding is correct.
I’m assuming that those who received the AC email are in a lower bucket than the waitlisted candidates. So once the waitlisted candidates get accepted and IF there are any open spots available AFTER any of these waitlisted candidates decide not to matriculate, only then the Candidates on the AC list will be offered an acceptance . Am I right?
What are the chances of this happening? Did any candidates in the AC list last year make it in? 🤔
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No there have been AC people accepted already on SDN. It's just UMass being nice and telling you they are deferring you for another few committee meetings as they compare you against future candidates instead of leaving you in silence like many other schools. AC literally means active consideration, don't overthink things.
 
What do guys think is more promising at this point, being on AC or waitlisted?
 
MOB202 said:
Historically UMass has huge waitlist movement, so I guess I would rather have a WL decision than my AC since November. But this is purely speculation.
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Active consideration at this point without a decision of waitlist, A or R just means that your app is in a big stack of apps they interviewed and put on AC, that they have not gotten back to to make a decision. They literally just started forming the waitlist, so they are likely making their way through that stack to figure out who gets what decision. They don't have a reason at this point to withhold the decision on your app- I think it just means they haven't gotten back to it yet to make that decision.
 
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Post-II R around 4PM this afternoon. My top choice since I first took interest in medicine. And the day I finally decided it wouldn't hurt to submit the letter of intent I had been working on. Not to mention they hit me with it immediately after donating blood - just glad I didn't faint, I suppose.

2': 8/13
II: 11/12
Interview: 12/15
AC: 1/5, 3/8
Update: 12/22
LOI: 3/17

Feeling pretty crushed. Interviewed back in 2018 as well and really thought I had it this time around. Ah, well. I can't pretend I won't always be jealous of you, but best of luck to those of you who made the cut all the same.

EDIT: IS, LM 72
 
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Hey guys,

Interviewed 02/24 and AC email last week. Hoping to hear back soon!
 
uniqueindividual said:
No expert or anything here, but based on last year’s forum it was mostly WL around this time. There was the a huge WL movement in April.
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Yea that makes sense , but does this mean that everyone who interviewed in February/March didn’t even stand a chance at an A? Like were are all the spots filled before we interviewed?
 
Because I’m paranoid: if you accept the WL offer the status tracker at the top of the portal says waitlist, right? Does it say something else if you decline? I’m like 90% sure I hit accept but my internet decided to act up while submitting and now I have no idea how to tell whether it went through.
 
ntbee_467 said:
Because I’m paranoid: if you accept the WL offer the status tracker at the top of the portal says waitlist, right? Does it say something else if you decline? I’m like 90% sure I hit accept but my internet decided to act up while submitting and now I have no idea how to tell whether it went through.
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If you decline it completely locks you out of your portal, so if you can log in I would assume it went through 🙂
 
I uploaded a letter of interest on peoplesoft. This might be a dumb question, but should i be able to view the file after adding it? I know I uploaded the correct document, but the uploaded file is just gray and has no way of viewing it.
 
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