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I submitted mid-September and I am just assuming it’s a hold or rejection at this point and moving on — maybe a miracle will happen lol

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Same but I’m assuming they’re gonna do a massive hold wave after all IIs are sent out and then reject later lol

I don't think they will hold people after interviews are finished. Last cycle, they put some hold people on another hold in case someone did pull out of an interview slot, but that seemed to be rare.
 
I don't think they will hold people after interviews are finished. Last cycle, they put some hold people on another hold in case someone did pull out of an interview slot, but that seemed to be rare.
so really, we're all just waiting for a fat R 😖
 
I'm currently WL here, and it's one of my top choices, but I'm also waiting to here back post-II on a few other top choice schools, so I'm considering sending a LOI. If I get rejected from those before SD asks for updates/LOI, I can still send a LOI, right?
 
I'm currently WL here, and it's one of my top choices, but I'm also waiting to here back post-II on a few other top choice schools, so I'm considering sending a LOI. If I get rejected from those before SD asks for updates/LOI, I can still send a LOI, right?

Why would getting rejected from those other schools prevent you from sending a LOI? Tbf, I'm not sure how much UCSD values LOIntent over LOInterest anyways
 
Idk if anyone said this but they don’t take letter of interests and only letters of intent?
 
I'm currently WL here, and it's one of my top choices, but I'm also waiting to here back post-II on a few other top choice schools, so I'm considering sending a LOI. If I get rejected from those before SD asks for updates/LOI, I can still send a LOI, right?
From what I understand, they don’t really look at LOIs until April/May which is when waitlist movement occurs. If I remember correctly from interview day, they will send an email around that time requesting any updates/LOIs from WL applicants.

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Sorry, I think this has been asked before, but what does waitlist movement look like here?
 
Just fyi- they let us know at yesterday's interview that decisions will be released (A/WL/R) for 2/29 interview on 3/15. So I'm assuming that everyone from before 2/29 who hasn't heard yet will find out then too. Hope that helps someone!
 
Just fyi- they let us know at yesterday's interview that decisions will be released (A/WL/R) for 2/29 interview on 3/15. So I'm assuming that everyone from before 2/29 who hasn't heard yet will find out then too. Hope that helps someone!
3/15 for PRIME or regular MD decisions?
 
Seems like it depends on the day honestly. I didn’t get an A call at all and just got an email. Meanwhile some days, it looks like everyone gets a call.
 
It doesn’t seem like UCSD rejects anyone post-interview cause I’ve haven’t seen a post-interview rejection reported
I just took a quick scan through the 2021-22 & 2022-23 UCSD threads, and a handful of folks reported post-ii rejections during both cycles. I agree that there’s probably a lot of underreporting.
 
I remember seeing stats that they interview about 900 people, waitlist about 300 people, and accept 140, so there must be post-II R's somewhere in there
I think 140 is the class size, so they probably admit a bit more than that; maybe double the class size or a bit less? Regardless it's not enough to account for post-II R so you're right there must be some people that get hit with it unfortunately.
 
It doesn’t seem like UCSD rejects anyone post-interview cause I’ve haven’t seen a post-interview rejection reported
Actually, UCSD has one of the lowest post-II acceptance rates according to admit.org (33%) and the infamous Google Excel sheet (37%). I think people are simply not reporting R's.
 
If UCSD’s waiting list is unranked, how do they choose which people to offer admission to first if spots open up?
 
A lot of schools will replace the demographic that dropped, ie stats urm/orm. Others will reevaluate the applicants after April 30th
 
They most certainly have a rank behind the scenes. I highly doubt they just pick at random, and out of all the people on the WL, they only consider those who send a LOI in April.
Most school who do unranked do it by demographics and stats, you definitely do not need to send an LOI.
 
Wait so if I understand previous posts correctly, UCSD doesn't send out Rs after interviews? It's either A or WL and the later on you might get the R if you don't get off the waitlist?
 
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