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Interviewed late Jan and update button is gone
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Heard from a rumor that Stanfords MMI scoring that they drop the lowest station, is that true or is it an avg of stations or just no information on this out there
 
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jumpingbean11 said:
It was earlier than 1/11 — and for what it’s worth, the update button disappeared from my portal 4-5 days before the decision but that could vary
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My button just went away, Jan 6 interview. Anyone else wanna share how long from button disappearance to decision lol
 
Last year, there was someone who had their button disappear weeks before receiving their acceptance, so YMMV.

This is purely speculation, but the review process might go like this:

1. Admissions reviews our files semi-chronologically or according to their own scoring criteria
2. The update button disappears once they start reviewing the file
3. They place us on the staircase analogy -> if you are a very strong candidate, they accept quicker; if you are a candidate who needs further consideration, they compare you with later candidates (hence the different lengths between button disappearance to decision)
4. We either get A, WL, or R

Again, this is purely a guess, so take it with a grain of salt
 
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Reading through the forum there’s a pattern of people talking about their buttons going away and then a wave of decisions, but it’s hard to track how closely they correlate for individuals.

Also I know this is so silly to try to read the tea leaves on lol but hey what else can we do
 
Anyone have any idea if a published abstract (+ its subsequent submitted co-first author paper, but that hasn't been accepted yet?) + a new leadership position is worth sending an update letter for? I mentioned these in the interview but keep going back & forth on whether we're supposed to upload this on the portal also... any guidance would be so so appreciated as my 2 week window is running out. Tysm!!
 
idkrntbh said:
Anyone have any idea if a published abstract (+ its subsequent submitted co-first author paper, but that hasn't been accepted yet?) + a new leadership position is worth sending an update letter for? I mentioned these in the interview but keep going back & forth on whether we're supposed to upload this on the portal also... any guidance would be so so appreciated as my 2 week window is running out. Tysm!!
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I would go for it!!! I don't think it could harm you only help
 
Does Stanford sent post-II rejections or do they only send waitlists? I want to figure out if the waitlist means anything.
 
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sj2000 said:
Does Stanford sent post-II rejections or do they only send waitlists? I want to figure out if the waitlist means anything.
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I received WL last Monday too. And I feel like Stanford basically waitlists everyone, very few people report being rejected.
 
has anyone just been ghosted my them (pre-int),,, I think they locked me out of my applicant portal LMAO my login doesn't work and my reset password email never shows up in my inbox :,) really nice 🙂))))
 
girlynerd said:
has anyone just been ghosted my them (pre-int),,, I think they locked me out of my applicant portal LMAO my login doesn't work and my reset password email never shows up in my inbox :,) really nice 🙂))))
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That's what happened to me after I got rejected. Did you check your spam
 
Does anyone know if Stanford is receptive to a Letter of Intent? or bc its such a top school they dont even look at them
 
themagictaco said:
Have heard they don't like/are indiff but this comes from word of mouth. idk if Admissions committee has ever said official stance
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I think they only want/accept the 3 update criteria in the update tab before making a decision. I think if you have heard back and are on the WL it probably doesn't hurt.
 
When do we think the last set of decisions are coming out for February interviewers?
 
Group poll: realistic probability of getting accepted off the waitlist? 2%? Even less?

Assuming anyone not accepted got waitlisted (based on trend history)
 
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Carti said:
Congrats y'all!

Did any of you happen to know when your interview update tab disappeared?
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Yeah, also don't know exactly because I didn't check the portal that frequently, but I think my interview update tab disappeared less than 1 week before I got the call 🙂
 
BTW, was wondering if anyone could speak to the clinical training at Stanford? I have heard some rumors that the clinical education is not as much a strength when compared to peer institutions (although this was heavily rebutted during the interview day), but was wondering if anyone had concrete thoughts about this (what are clerkships like compared to other schools? are they true pass/fail? how have STEP scores been in the past few years?)
 
+1 :’) Glad to hear back though, the wait is killer. GL to everyone else!
 
Anyone who has been accepted at Stanford having issues uploading financial aid documents to the AXESS portal? When I try to fill out the supplementary financial aid application I get all these errors in the AXESS Portal.
 
newnaijamd said:
Anyone who has been accepted at Stanford having issues uploading financial aid documents to the AXESS portal? When I try to fill out the supplementary financial aid application I get all these errors in the AXESS Portal.
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I did too! Had to email fin aid my docs and they accepted them
 
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