2023-2024 Eastern Virginia

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From scouring the prior years threads, they only seem to send out Pre-secondary R's, but nothing for pre-II. However, I wouldn't lose hope yet, as I have seen a handful of II from August applicants reaching into January.
I was complete in July last year, heard nothing until January, sent them an update about my research and got an interview 2 days later. I'm here now and it is amazing 🙂
 
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Do we have an idea when the next round of decisions might be?
today i hope. latest they have ever gotten back from late September/early October interviews was Nov 16th. plus they handed out the last round on a Friday 🤞🤞

edit: from my records, it looks like almost every acceptance wave comes on a friday.
 
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Really hope we hear something today...I've been in silence since 9/27. At this point I'm wondering if I should send an update or letter of intent.
Same. 1st week of October interview... approaching 8 weeks and just feel like this right now
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Aren’t high tier people taken off the waitlist first
Not necessarily. According to the Wednesday meetings, “tiers” are purely stats based, and have no real reflection on your fit to the school.

My guess is that high tiers, while they may have good stats, were missing something on interview that was limiting acceptance. But that’s just a guess, and results will certainly vary from app to app.
 
Not necessarily. According to the Wednesday meetings, “tiers” are purely stats based, and have no real reflection on your fit to the school.

My guess is that high tiers, while they may have good stats, were missing something on interview that was limiting acceptance. But that’s just a guess, and results will certainly vary from app to app.
Oh interesting! That makes me feel slightly better about being in the middle tier
 
WL, interviewed 9/29. Withdrawing my app cause like the legend Cruyff said, If you have second thoughts on playing for Barcelona, you are no longer of service to us.
haha did not expect to see that quote on SDN
 
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high/mid tier does not really mean much. in fact, most people who reported waitlist acceptance are from “mid tier.”
This is purely anecdotal, but like you've pointed out, the tiers are not the end-all be-all they may seem to be. I've got a friend that currently goes there who had to apply twice. First go around, he was WL top tier. Didn't get in. Second go around, WL middle tier, and he was accepted within 3 months. You never know!

Stay strong my fellow middle-tier beauties.
 
This is purely anecdotal, but like you've pointed out, the tiers are not the end-all be-all they may seem to be. I've got a friend that currently goes there who had to apply twice. First go around, he was WL top tier. Didn't get in. Second go around, WL middle tier, and he was accepted within 3 months. You never know!

Stay strong my fellow middle-tier beauties.
100% agree.

CONCERNING WAITLIST STATISTICS (2022-2023):
note 1: There is no "low-tier" waitlist. No one has ever reported it, and it doesn't seem to exist.
note 2: There were only 6 straight acceptances (A) reported and 62 waitlists (WL). Do not be discouraged by a WL. Especially this early
note 3: Being put on "HOLD" is not a death sentence, but it really reduces chances of getting accepted (only 2/15 were eventually accepted).

MSAR stats (reported from EVMS):
75 out of 200 WL (37.5%) students accepted



Distributions of the reported WL:
13 "top" tier
38 "mid" tier
11 unreported tiers
62 total


Acceptance percentages for given WL brackets:
52.8% (7/13) "top" tier accepted
31.5% (12/38) "mid" tier accepted
4/11 unreported accepted
37% (23/62) total accepted

Average turnaround from WL:
~80% usually get accepted from WL within 30 days
other 20% get accepted from WL within 40-130 days

Conclusions:
EVMS' reported stats appear to be accurate. Not all students report their results on SDN, and most straight-accepted students don't appear to.

Again, WL here is not at all a death sentence. Keep doing you, and send an update letter/letter of intent 100%.

"top" tier and "mid" tier seem to have mild differences in acceptance rates, but getting placed in either bracket neither guarantees nor prevents getting an acceptance.

GETTING A WL THIS EARLY IS A GREAT SIGN! 10 out of the 23 reported WL-->A people were from November WL!
 
anyone know the policy for thank you letters? couldn't find on website or in their email messages.
I sent one email with multiple attachments for my thank you notes. The admissions office specified how to format the attachments.
Email: [email protected]
Attachments: Only PDF/Word Docs titled "Last name, First Name AMCAS ID"
Ex. Doe, John 123456.pdf

For the multiple attachments, maybe add a number or something to differentiate each one:
Ex. Doe, John 123456 - 1.pdf

Hope that helps!