2024-2025 Hackensack Meridian

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beeeev4 said:
huge congrats! you must be so psyched! so in order to help me manifest an A along with you did you get a call or an email? and wondering if they gave you a timeframe to accept or decline? thanks for any info
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thanks! sorry just realized i never hit post lol, i got a call at 11:25 EST and an email at 12:26 P.M. EST, I have a week to accept or decline so until June 4th
 
How does the waitlist work? Does it go in “order” of when you were put on the list? Or is it more random than that?
 
If ur still waiting on an acceptance it is in ur best interest to already be submitting the next cycle application. Maybe we will be pleasantly surprised with a call, but it’s June and this school starts in one month… Their class has to b nearly full.
 
scrubadubdub23 said:
If ur still waiting on an acceptance it is in ur best interest to already be submitting the next cycle application. Maybe we will be pleasantly surprised with a call, but it’s June and this school starts in one month… Their class has to b nearly full.
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Hoping that this is not true- hopefully people dropped off due to the CTE date. Last year they were accepting off the waitlist through the end of June - nothing we can do except remain positive!
 
I just wish adcom would give us some kind of update so we're not in limbo for so long. I've had to pause my life bc of having to move to NJ at a moments notice.
 
speedyredcarxo1234 said:
Hoping that this is not true- hopefully people dropped off due to the CTE date. Last year they were accepting off the waitlist through the end of June - nothing we can do except remain positive!
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There should definitely be some acceptances. But the vast majority of WL A’s have probably already went out.
 
In 2023, they accepted 540 people after interviewing like 660. you can check out the HMSOM Databook. Their yield rate is low. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed. Plus the groupme is probably at like 270
 
Syncreon3228 said:
In 2023, they accepted 540 people after interviewing like 660. you can check out the HMSOM Databook. Their yield rate is low. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed. Plus the groupme is probably at like 270
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What does this mean tho?
 
Syncreon3228 said:
In 2023, they accepted 540 people after interviewing like 660. you can check out the HMSOM Databook. Their yield rate is low. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed. Plus the groupme is probably at like 270
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Groupmes from last few years are 280ish if u click on them.
 
Syncreon3228 said:
In 2023, they accepted 540 people after interviewing like 660. you can check out the HMSOM Databook. Their yield rate is low. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed. Plus the groupme is probably at like 270
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Sounds like they accept a lot of students - but the students don’t choose HMSOM.
 
Syncreon3228 said:
In 2023, they accepted 540 people after interviewing like 660. you can check out the HMSOM Databook. Their yield rate is low. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed. Plus the groupme is probably at like 270
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I would imagine that as they’ve become more established and have released a couple of impressive match lists, their yield has likely increased.
 
KingKiller21 said:
If you want the most up-to-date data, they interviewed 756 last cycle, accepted 459, and 164 matriculated. The yield was around 36%, which is fairly typical for a mid-tier private school, I would say.
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I guess technically if the GroupMe is at around 270, we can estimate that there’s probably ~300 total admissions offers. This would means they need to give out ~100-140 more offers this cycle. I don’t know though, maybe someone else can chime in if this doesn’t logically track.
 
There’s people who have acceptances who aren’t in the group me. The group me doesn’t represent the entire pool of acceptances. Also some people in the group me might be people who aren’t accepted that are just trying to join and see what people are talking about etc.
 
ayecheckthisout said:
There’s people who have acceptances who aren’t in the group me. The group me doesn’t represent the entire pool of acceptances. Also some people in the group me might be people who aren’t accepted that are just trying to join and see what people are talking about etc.
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That’s good, means they have to send out more offers 🤞
 
Syncreon3228 said:
I guess technically if the GroupMe is at around 270, we can estimate that there’s probably ~300 total admissions offers. This would means they need to give out ~100-140 more offers this cycle. I don’t know though, maybe someone else can chime in if this doesn’t logically track.
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I don’t want to erase all hope but saying there will be 100-140 more offers in post-CTE June is kind of wild. Logically there should be very minimal movement past the CTE date.
 
ayecheckthisout said:
There’s people who have acceptances who aren’t in the group me. The group me doesn’t represent the entire pool of acceptances. Also some people in the group me might be people who aren’t accepted that are just trying to join and see what people are talking about etc.
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The group me is such a terrible marker of the class size for the reasons I mentioned above. Idk why y'all are using that as a way to gauge waitlist movement its just not a good thing to gain or lose your hope on.
 
Syncreon3228 said:
I guess technically if the GroupMe is at around 270, we can estimate that there’s probably ~300 total admissions offers. This would means they need to give out ~100-140 more offers this cycle. I don’t know though, maybe someone else can chime in if this doesn’t logically track.
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It’s way more like that a lot more As have been given out than ~300. It’s the very end of the cycle, almost every school has sent out the vast majority of their As. There will likely be a handful or 2 of more acceptances because of students who decide not to attend last minute. But most students who are holding onto this acceptance this late in the cycle are attending. They would’ve released their A weeks ago if not.
 
Someone should call admissions and ask what the deal is. I actually would but the admission office knows me pretty well and I don’t think it would help. Maybe a new face can offer a new perspective.
 
ayecheckthisout said:
The group me is such a terrible marker of the class size for the reasons I mentioned above. Idk why y'all are using that as a way to gauge waitlist movement its just not a good thing to gain or lose your hope on.
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Yea you’re right actually. There’s probably much more than 270 offers made. Plus the people in that are not all accepted students from this cycle. I don’t know what proportion of them are not admitted students.
 
ayecheckthisout said:
Someone should call admissions and ask what the deal is. I actually would but the admission office knows me pretty well and I don’t think it would help. Maybe a new face can offer a new perspective.
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i would call but they are not answering calls. Not sure what happened to them
 
There’s also tons of upperclassmen lurking in the GroupMe

I will point out that the school got fully accredited in 2023 so the first cohort to apply under that was 2024, I think technically being “unaccredited” scared people off before so that’s another reason to question that those trends would be the same
 
ayecheckthisout said:
Hoping to join all of you who were pulled off the WL this week!!
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Been hoping the same for the past 16 weeks too… tbh losing hope now. The school seriously needs to reconsider its stance on putting a lot of people on the waitlist and then not sending any timely communication with such applicants. In fact, I heard they put nearly everyone on the waitlist after an interview which is really fustrating, like just reject me if there isn’t a match, dang!!
 
Mr_Pants said:
Been hoping the same for the past 16 weeks too… tbh losing hope now. The school seriously needs to reconsider its stance on putting a lot of people on the waitlist and then not sending any timely communication with such applicants. In fact, I heard they put nearly everyone on the waitlist after an interview which is really fustrating, like just reject me if there isn’t a match, dang!!
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Where did you hear that from?
 
Sorry, probably a bad choice of words, I meant to say there isn’t a single post II rejection posted anywhere on the last years forum or the admit webpage as such with others. Also, logically speaking, if the acceptances issued were really 459 or so last year out of the 700 or so interviewed: it does seem like many students don’t end up choosing them, so rejecting prospective students could risk a) not the getting the highest stats students / or really interesting students and b) not filling the entire class size as they expected…

Edit: I could be totally wrong but this school and the admissions committee seem like they care about applicants, but I dont know why I’m getting a feeling they don’t give a crap about putting someone’s life on hold even if they know they aren’t going to accept them.
 
Mr_Pants said:
Sorry, probably a bad choice of words, I meant to say there isn’t a single post II rejection posted anywhere on the last years forum or the admit webpage as such with others. Also, logically speaking, if the acceptances issued were really 459 or so last year out of the 700 or so interviewed: it does seem like many students don’t end up choosing them, so rejecting prospective students could risk a) not the getting the highest stats students / or really interesting students and b) not filling the entire class size as they expected…

Edit: I could be totally wrong but this school and the admissions committee seem like they care about applicants, but I dont know why I’m getting a feeling they don’t give a crap about putting someone’s life on hold even if they know they aren’t going to accept them.
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They gave a few Post II R’s before but I’m thinking you have to give off some major psychopath vibes to get one lol
 
Mr_Pants said:
Sorry, probably a bad choice of words, I meant to say there isn’t a single post II rejection posted anywhere on the last years forum or the admit webpage as such with others. Also, logically speaking, if the acceptances issued were really 459 or so last year out of the 700 or so interviewed: it does seem like many students don’t end up choosing them, so rejecting prospective students could risk a) not the getting the highest stats students / or really interesting students and b) not filling the entire class size as they expected…

Edit: I could be totally wrong but this school and the admissions committee seem like they care about applicants, but I dont know why I’m getting a feeling they don’t give a crap about putting someone’s life on hold even if they know they aren’t going to accept them.
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They’re protecting their yield. By basically stashing students on the waitlist. Makes sense from their perspective. Sucks for us though.

Like if the yield is atrocious (I.e. 30%) then they can pull from their waitlist where they stashed all their students. And they can still select who they want. They wouldn’t have to worry about not having enough students or accepting students they don’t actually want.
 
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