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Good med students will get where they need to and want to be. Choosing between med schools largely comes down to what you think will help you be the best version of yourself + your maximum potential when you’re there. Obviously curricular things, environment and vibes are a big part of that which Duke does an amazing job of. But other more personal factors matter a lot too.
Thats because alot of people only look at the competitive specialties, but if you wanted to match a less competitive specialty but at Yale, UCSF, Harvard...etc you still have to be extremely competitive. Also, you have to think most of the competitive stuff are surgical subspecialties: NSGY, Ortho, ENT, PRS..the exception is Derm. So looking at your example of Yale, sure they only had 3 ortho, and 2 NSGY but how many of their other specialties matched into prestigious institutions, i'd bet most of them did.
Ah okay, how do we go about interpreting match lists then? I was going off the prior convo where the focus was on nsgy, ortho, plastics etc… but I’m guessing this may be a flawed approach?
Do they give all kids from T-20’s the same score or do they delinate between schools?
looking at last years match list it looks pretty similar. 11 gen surg, 11 ortho, 5 nsgy, etc. duke been in its bag
The wording of the email was weird. They did say they would let you know if you are in consideration but I think it would be very odd for a school to say you're in consideration for the scholarship and then not give you the scholarship when everyone is automatically considered to begin with. I think they just meant that they will tell you if you get a merit scholarship. I think we have to hang tight for another week or two until they start sending them out.
Not sure if they're doing things differently this year, but I didn't get any advance notice last year.
And the fact that the majority of students did it in 4 years also blows my mind!!
I believe it's during and/or after second look! Although @shy_hulud is a better source of info on this 🙂
Yep, I did! Got the call from Dean Yee a couple of days before Second Look
Honestly, no idea but if I had to guess, it’s probably rolling for a couple of weeks
I second this, and would love to know when we can safely assume we haven't received one!
Stats are a factor, but overall application+interview matter way more
There was ZERO mention of this at Duke's SLW and no students have expressed concern over this.
was just coming to ask this… also anyone know when WL movement started in previous years?
waitlist movement could start today (it started 5/2 and 5/3 ish the last few years) Both the GroupMe and FB group are still fairly overenrolled but it’s hard to tell because there are current students and possible stragglers. I asked a counselor at Duke about WL movement last week and they said they thought the waitlist would move based on the numbers they had at the time but only a small amount “way less than 10 people” (and things may have drastically changed since I asked them) TLDR it’s not looking great but it’s not impossible
Hey, 👋🏻 I got a few questions for you. Seems like you are in the group me so you can see the number of students on there, but how do you know there was 220 students who got acceptance letters this year? Also, the people who are waitlisted probably already sent their letter of intent, so are you saying they should send another one? Let me know, because as far as I know schools generally don’t prefer students sending another letter of intent if one was already sent. Thanks!
Hey! Yes I had made a typo mistake. There was about 230 students accepted this year and I know because when they sent the email updates or the second look details, it showed everyone’s email lol and the number of people in the event calendar. That was sent right after acceptances late Feb so it seems to be anyone who was accepted. One thing I’ve learned about the cycle is just shooting your shot. It won’t hurt to send another letter of intent or at least asking admissions for an update if there will be movement and next steps. You are well in your right especially with CTE deadlines approaching for schools and needing to figure out your future (even with finaid if you plan to come!!). I’ve been seeing other schools (including T20s) with waitlist movements or at least updates/communication to their waitlist candidates. I’m not sure what the hold up is with admissions but I hope they give you the clarity you all deserve!
I encourage you to email them! Last years SDN thread reports someone e-mailing and admissions provided a transparent answer!
Emailed them and this was their response!
Ahh sounds like very little WL movement then, if they already have a class mostly made up
