If there's general info you need about St Luke's I'm happy to help or put you in touch with someone who can. I would guess there's not an accepted students page yet, but I can look into getting something set up for you all. My first year a "LKSOM Class of XXXX" page didn't get set up until May or June.
By rule, Temple School of Medicine/Katz must have all their available seats filled by 3/15/21. Any interviews are likely to be for waitlist cushion beyond that. There is a fair amount of waitlist movement. The 2020 average MCAT score of Katz SOM was 512 which is a heavy factor and puts everyone on an entirely equal footing as opposed to the challenge of comparing GPAs from schools and areas of studies of different rigor. Katz also has some preferred pre-requisites. There was an option upon application to select a Preferred Campus. Essays/Personal Statements for Beth/Katz that focus on a rural medicine mission may be more likely to get an II in particular is the applicant's direct patient contact and volunteerism have a rural medicine proven component. Good luck, there is still hope, stay positive and things will work out for you. It is a tough cycle, even for applicants with high stats that have checked all the other boxes. I think Temple got somewhere around 16,000 applications this year.
my guess would be more like 3/16 but fingers crossed foe this Tuesday!!!
The schools generally may do a Face Book Page much later in the cycle. 50% of current acceptances will choose not to attend Katz. Yield rate considered. Some very, very, lucky applicants have multiple acceptances and some may get their preferred choice later in the cycle when the person in the ladder rung above them chooses to decline and then the dominos flow through when they in turn decline. Katz is an incredible program, can't imagine where they go. Additionally, isn't Facebook kind of..... so yesterday, and a profession that prides itself in HIPPA and privacy, Facebook has limited privacy :>
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Do not worry about it. All you need is to go and ace the interview .You do not know if there is a waitlist movement by the time they make a decision about your application. I have a couple of waitlists where I was told that straight up that I did well and I will be placed on the waitlist, high priority waitlist. GO AND KNOCK THE INTERVIEW OUT , FAM!!Also wondering this
Do not worry about it. All you need is to go and ace the interview.You do not know if there is a waitlist movement by the time they make a decision about your application. I have a couple of waitlists where I was told that straight up that I did well and I will be placed on the waitlist, high priority waitlist. GO AND KNOCK THE INTERVIEW OUT, FAM!!
Yes they have had a few rejection waves
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Mighty Quinn, is the following in the ballpark? (11,346 applicants, for 220 seats, with 483 accepted for the MD Class of 2019) thus 263 applicant's accepted did not attend leaving opportunity for waitlist movement as some of the waitlist acceptances may also not attend. Clearly an acceptance today is preferred to a waitlist, but the waitlist is not an entirely poor place to be with the 483 acceptances given for 220 seats?
E-mail. But you can also check the portal.
I'm probably late to the game, but what's special about March 16?
Updates are accecpted, I sent one in Dec and one last week
The anticipated day for their next batch of post-interview decisions.
And did they get back to you? Have you received an interview? Thanks!
They confirmed receipt and that they’ll add it to my file, but no interview (yet)
did you email it to them or just upload it onto the portal?
I uploaded my Dec update to the portal, but emailed my second update to the adcom address. I feel very strongly about Temple so I emailed them a quick blurb in addition to the update letter.
Today, actually. OOS.
I am so sorry! When were you complete?
Congrats! and sadly, nobody knows (have asked too), but based on how many A's get offered in their "Mid-March" release date, which we speculate to be the 16th, can probably get a better guess cause if no one/very few get A's then it's probably all WL movement from here, but I'd imagine they over-accept a lot and there are still A's out there just based on other similar schools, but Temple could do it totally different, who knows.
It may be against the rules to "overbook" a class. Medical Schools are only allowed to provide acceptances for the number of seats they have available and their acceptances that are still outstanding must by rule equal the number of seats available by March 15th. It is likely between March 15th and the date of matriculation some of the outstanding acceptances will be declined by applicants (yield rate) that have found a better fit for them at another school, thus applicants will be selected off the waitlist for acceptance.
Unless Temple is unique, most schools accept a number that is above class size initially, then as it falls below their number of seats available, they accept off of a WL, at least that's how a couple of the schools I've been accepted to do it, but maybe they're the ones that do it oddly. So I don't think there's a rule preventing medical schools from doing that. Maybe Temple specifically though. but agreed, I imagine plenty of WL movement especially since people didn't have to travel to interview. Having to have a full class by March 15 versus being unable to accept more than class size are two different things though.
You are correct, I used the term matriculants and acceptances interchangeably and they are distinct, thanks for catch and the correction! They must at least equal the number of seats with acceptances by March 15th, but can go over as long as the acceptances do not become matriculants. I think when they actually have more matriculants show up than LCME allowed seats for their school they have to file for some type of special increase in allowed class size. Thus the necessity of associated agony of the wait - while on the waitlist to help balance acceptances, to matriculants to seats. Congrats on the multiple acceptances you noted.
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last year's thread reported a change in CYMS before they got their emails. i'd say an A is coming very soon! 🥳
What is cyms?
"choose your medical school" - the ACMAS thing when you have an acceptance
