2024-2025 Application Cycle Sankey Megathread

[TheRealBibFortuna]

Feel free to add your Sankeys below 🙂
Hoping to make this a community repository

In addition to the school lists provided by Faha et all in the WAMC forum, I found that Sankey diagrams from past cycles helped me manage my expectations and gave a better picture of where I stood as an applicant. To that end, I wanted to try to create a megathread here for people to share their cycle results with as much or as little detail as they feel comfortable sharing to support the applicants of subsequent cycles. You can find mine below, and if applicants have questions, I'm open to answering DMs!

Disclaimer: Reading Sankeys is likely as esoteric of a process as reading match lists (or tea leaves). My experience was that I found the information helpful and I found that my results were similar to those past sankeys that resembled my own application. Your results may vary, take everything with a grain of salt, comparison is the thief of joy, etcetera etcetera etcetera.

Genersting a Sankey: I used this Reddit post to help me navigate SankeyMATIC as I made mine, but Admit.org has also come out with a much easier to use tool.

Discussion: I got two different school lists: one from Faha and one from Admit. I'll break them down below.

Red = Rejected
Green = Accepted
Purple = Waitlist
Black = Didn't apply

Faha:

Hofstra
Einstein
Tufts
OHSU
Case Western
Duke
Brown
UCSF
UCLA
Rochester
Pittsburgh
WashU
Northwestern
Boston U
Cincinatti
Emory
UVA
Ohio State
Vanderbilt
USF Morsani
Miami
UMich
USC Keck
Kaiser
Jefferson

Misses: 5 (JHU, UCSD, Columbia, Mayo, UChicago)

Admit:

Reach
Harvard
JHU
Penn
Columbia
Duke
Stanford
UCSF
Vanderbilt
WashU
Cornell
NYU
Yale
Mayo
Target
Northwestern
Pittsburgh
Mt Sinai
Case Western
UChicago
Emory
UCLA
UMich
Brown
Baseline
OHSU
Colorado
UVA
Rochester
Iowa
USF Morsani
Hofstra
UA Phoenix
Georgetown
Cincinatti
Boston U
Howard

Misses: 4 (Ohio State, UCSD, Miami, USC)

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[wysdoc]

In addition to the school lists provided by Faha et all in the WAMC forum, I found that Sankey diagrams from past cycles helped me manage my expectations and gave a better picture of where I stood as an applicant. To that end, I wanted to try to create a megathread here for people to share their cycle results with as much or as little detail as they feel comfortable sharing to support the applicants of subsequent cycles. You can find mine below, and if applicants have questions, I'm open to answering DMs!

Disclaimer: Reading Sankeys is likely as esoteric of a process as reading match lists (or tea leaves). My experience was that I found the information helpful and I found that my results were similar to those past sankeys that resembled my own application. Your results may vary, take everything with a grain of salt, comparison is the thief of joy, etcetera etcetera etcetera.

Genersting a Sankey: I used this Reddit post to help me navigate SankeyMATIC as I made mine, but Admit.org has also come out with a much easier to use tool.

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Discussion: I got two different school lists: one from Faha and one from Admit. I'll break them down below.

Red = Rejected
Green = Accepted
Purple = Waitlist
Black = Didn't apply

Faha:

Hofstra
Einstein
Tufts
OHSU
Case Western
Duke
Brown
UCSF
UCLA
Rochester
Pittsburgh
WashU
Northwestern
Boston U
Cincinatti
Emory
UVA
Ohio State
Vanderbilt
USF Morsani
Miami
UMich
USC Keck
Kaiser
Jefferson

Misses: 5 (JHU, UCSD, Columbia, Mayo, UChicago)

Admit:

Reach
Harvard
JHU
Penn
Columbia
Duke
Stanford
UCSF
Vanderbilt
WashU
Cornell
NYU
Yale
Mayo
Target
Northwestern
Pittsburgh
Mt Sinai
Case Western
UChicago
Emory
UCLA
UMich
Brown
Baseline
OHSU
Colorado
UVA
Rochester
Iowa
USF Morsani
Hofstra
UA Phoenix
Georgetown
Cincinatti
Boston U
Howard

Misses: 4 (Ohio State, UCSD, Miami, USC)

why don't your school lists match the Sankey, and why didn't you use the same colors for both?
Where will you attend?

 

[HappyRabbit]

It's really cool to see that the builder worked out essentially flawlessly for you 🙂 Congrats on the amazing choices and successful cycle!

 

[ClashRoyaleKing]

Congrats on the acceptances! Where are you thinking of matriculating? Hopkins or Vanderbilt seem like the best options. Having seen Nashville for Vanderbilts across the street cousin Belmont, it is an amazing city.

 

[TheRealBibFortuna]

Congrats on the acceptances! Where are you thinking of matriculating? Hopkins or Vanderbilt seem like the best options. Having seen Nashville for Vanderbilts across the street cousin Belmont, it is an amazing city.

I was between Michigan and Hopkins, but the cost ended up being equal so Hopkins is the easy choice 🙂

 

[TheRealBibFortuna]

why don't your school lists match the Sankey, and why didn't you use the same colors for both?
Where will you attend?

The colors should be the same between both? Red, green, and purple.

The lists and the Sankey don't match because I applied to schools that neither list recommended and didn't apply to schools that the lists recommended. My final list is different from the lists recommended to me.

Edit: I found one error so far, I'll fix them as I find them. Sorry about that.