There will absolutely be more WL movement, but I think it's reasonable to start the reapp process if this is where you're at. If you get pulled from the WL, great, but I don't think it's ever something to bank on!
Who did you hear that from?
im desperately hoping that people drop their As by April 30
Admissions. And that's pretty much all I know, sorry guys.Oof I'm so sad
Are they at class size in terms of acceptances or PTEs?
Did you call? Thanks for doing gods workAdmissions. And that's pretty much all I know, sorry guys.
Does anyone know if it's normal to be at class size at this point in the cycle for MD schools in general? I was thinking this would be a good thing since being at class size is better (for WL peeps) than being above class size right now (since I assumed overadmittance is common for most if not all med schools before April 30th), right? This is assuming that "at class size" refers to the number of acceptances and NOT the number of people who chose to PTE at Pitt (if it's the latter, we're screwed).
I'm not sure anyone, except the ADCOMs, would know this info... you could reach out to admissions, but I'm not sure they'd give you that info, nor if they would want to be called about it
I was thinking this too, considering most WL movement happens after the AAMC deadlines. But who knows if they meant PTE or acceptances. Also, the comment made by warmpotato is literally not anything we weren't expecting, so everyone keep your heads up! It was always assumed schools have the most WL movement after the deadlines, so in early May. Nothing particularly disheartening about this info, I consider everything to be going as planned. Considering some people got off the WL in June of last year, April is too early to throw in the hat
I mean, what else are we supposed to do? We can make as many conjectures as we want, but this process sucks and ultimately all we can do is sit here
I'm outhere burning incense and herbs and reading the smoke patterns
I literally had to sacrifice a baby lamb for work today. I'm all in on the rituals.
They've already reached class size, so they probably want to wait until after April 30 to accept off waitlist to make sure they don't over enroll
I'm just shocked that any MD school would require admitted students to CTE that early. Which school does this if you don't mind me asking?
You absolutely do not need to commit to enroll anywhere on April 30th, unless your school has a specific policy on this. You do need to Plan to Enroll, and withdraw from all other acceptances, but you can stay on waitlists until your specific school's Commit to Enroll day (mine are all sometime in mid-July). Please find out when these CTE dates are for your schools, and email them if necessary! Don't CTE before you have to/before you're sure you're fine with withdrawing from waitlists -- whichever comes first.
I've called a few schools about this, and they are still over class size, as I would assume most schools are pre-April 30th. I'm not seeing how Pitt is any different, unless I'm missing something? I wouldn't expect much more WL movement until May anywhere.
No, this is not correct. Students need to make the selection plan to enroll at one school by the April 30th deadline and drop to one acceptance. However, you can still remain on waitlists and receive additional acceptances from other schools. Waitlist movement at schools happens after the April 30th deadline because students will choose a different school, and then obviously it takes admissions some time to go over the waitlist.
From what I've heard, sending multiple LOI's to the same school doesn't leave a good look to AdComs. I've considered doing this a lot, but I don't wanna risk anything, ya know? But if you have another solid update to mention, then I would definitely send an update letter confirming your interest.
Best advice is a short hail mary LOI in June.
What does this mean? Is it in reference to a second look day for accepted applicants? Or is your application being looked at again?
I think it's for accepted students
142. a few MS1s in here also though. good news for WL folks, several ppl have left the groupme in the past few days!
Thanks! How many people would you say have left?
When I initially heard that the GroupMe was below 149, I was so excited. However, one of the GroupMes of a school I was accepted to has half the expected class size at the moment (e.g. 100 people in the GroupMe while the expected class size is ~200). So it's possible that only ~142 people were accepted, but more realistically the number is much higher. :/
Ugh... Hopefully there are a lot of students in that page too
Last year it was May 4th, so possibly next week
Thanks! In the FB page, how many of them would you say are accepted applicants and not current students/staff/etc.? Thanks!
In the FB page, there are 7 official admin/moderators. Keep in mind this was just a second look FB page, so admin just added everyone who was accepted at some point to it.
Really, that many? Where did you hear 300?
The general rule of thumb for most schools is to accept 2x the class size you want, as a 50% return on acceptance is a pretty standard average.
It’s on the Post-II acceptance rate spreadsheet. Pitt has a pretty low yield rate which results in lots of WL movement, although things could change due to COVID-19.
Huh didn't know that. I wish MSAR would list the number of acceptances at each school too.
We haven't achieved the level of insane speculations and conspiracies that last year's cohort had.
I’m guessing larger than it is this year since there were two rounds of A’s following the initial round rather than one. It would also make sense for adcoms to be more conservative for this unusual cycle.
