Congrats to everyone who have been accepted! When were your applications complete?
I submitted my secondary 8/16, got the "under review" email 8/22, and the showcase invite 12/10
The showcase is not evaluated and is not part of your application, so I doubt it's a mistake! Congrats!!
Yes! My showcase is in February but I got accepted yesterday. Submitted early September.
^^^^^^Did anyone receive more info regarding this during their showcase?
"From December through early March, our finalist subcommittee will meet frequently."
Just to add to this, over the past few years the number of applications to Carle has been around 2500. That means ~250 people got invited to the showcase to fill 64 seats this year. I'm not sure what the acceptance to matriculant ratio is, but it's likely to be at least 2:1 (I personally think it's probably higher than this). So there is a good chance at least half the people invited to the showcase will receive an offer. There's plenty of time left for many offers to go out.
Last year, they received a total of 2830 applications based on MSAR. And I think they invited more than 250 people this year, because there were 13 other applicants during my showcases session (*36 session). Either they received a lot more applications than last year, or they sent out showcase invites to more than 10% of the applicants.
This year, Carle had 2471 applications. Can't say exactly how many showcase invites were sent out, but I don't think they would stray that far from the 10% to offer 468 showcase invites (nearly 19%). Maybe the sessions toward the beginning filled up to capacity while later sessions remained relatively empty? Can only speculate.
This is great info and based on that it's possible that Carle had <2471 secondary applications assuming every applicant didn't complete their secondary application (based on past few years data) since those are the people typically invited to the showcase. So, it's possible that <247 people were invited for the showcase. I'm not sure what the exact applicant to matriculant stats are but here's to hoping there are more acceptances to be released before March 15
Just checked the fact sheet in the link, very interesting data. I had a hunch that this was the case, as I had shared it here back in early December (quoted). I also the think the true number of showcase invites are somewhere between the numbers you both have mentioned (neither 250 or 468 per se). Conservatively, I would guess the true number probably lies somewhere between 280 to 320, which is somewhat close enough to the 10% they put on their showcase website. Considering acceptance to matriculation ratio (which I think ~2:1 is a decent guesstimate), I think everyone who got a showcase invite has a decent (conservatively ~35-45%) chance of getting in either at the end of initial round of acceptances or later from the waitlist.
meeting on Wednesdays and sending out decisions on?
this past week they sent A's on Wednesday night
thank god. Does anybody else debate, in their head, the likelihood of getting in, lol?
Ngl, I am not too worried about the chances of getting in or not. I don't know whether I should be. I'm just hoping that they've seen from my application that I would be a great fit for the school (and vice-versa). I think at this point, it's a matter of school's mission, vision and values fit rather than people's LM scores or WARS scores. I hope they get to truly see all of us through our application.
The Showcase website on the "What's Next?" page indicates they plan on hosting in-person events for Second Look. Do you have information more recent that indicates they are unable to hold these events in-person? If they are holding Second Look in-person I think that would be the best time for you to learn about Carle Illinois and its campus.
Oh I should clarify--I haven't been accepted or even applied yet.
I think it's a great question to ask admissions. They will be able to tell you whether you would have access to the facilities you may be interested in seeing and whether they can help facilitate connecting you with a current student.
I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thank you!
Did she mention sending out more acceptance or showcase invites because someone said barely any acceptance were sent out yet
She said more showcases. But then she also kept saying they will meet to decide it this week, but MOST LIKELY will not send any. So I am not sure why she mentioned it in the first place. I did not talk to her about acceptances, cuz I did not receive a showcase invite this year.
I think it’s likely, given that a lot of showcase sessions were not completely filled. I can see at least 7 sessions that are open with available seats on my showcase reservation portal. I don’t know how to interpret that data though. My guess is that there were some candidates withdrawing their applications after receiving the showcase invites, creating some vacancy, and now they’re deciding if they want to lower the showcase score threshold to fill those vacancy. But even if they decide not to send out more showcase invites, I’m pretty confident they still will have more than enough stellar candidates to fill all 64 seats for the incoming class.
I believe the original words I heard from the staff during my showcase this Monday is “we only sent out a minimal number of acceptances for the first round.” On a second thought, I’m not sure what does “minimal” and “first round” actually stand for. I also remember she said they’re still in the middle of grading everyone’s application and this can take a while to get done.
+1
It's even worse because I used to only panic on Wednesday lol...
I panic everyday so there's zero change for me.
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same thats what they told me during the showcase but then was surprised when a few got As two weeks ago
On their website it says, "Feb 19, 2022 Accepted applicants should update the Carle Illinois status page and AAMC’s Choose Your Medical School (CYMS). (We anticipate few offers will be made before February of 2022.) "
