anonymous2025
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Congrats!! do u mind me asking if you applied to just MD or PURCH too?
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anonymous2025
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Gotchu maybe next Friday there’ll be a lot of decisions but I’m sure a lot early April :/
MYOsin_guy16
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At the end of the day a ton of decisions could come out over the next week and a half. Conversly, we could all be hyping ourselves up to wait another month for the final end of april deadline. I'm not a super competitive applicant so I'm just hoping for an april WL at this point, and maybe I get in by the skin of my teeth.
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anonymous2025
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same i thought it was a good thing if i haven't been rejected yet but from reading students' responses last year and seeing people from August hear back in April, I don't know anymore
rivelneeuq
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weird ask but if anyone wants to put up their rejection letter so I can read it and desensitize myself as I painfully wait
MYOsin_guy16
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Chill dog. Hang out with some people. Hammer some beers, you'll be alright.
Was on my way to a pub in Spain my last cycle when UMass hit me with the R at the end of April. Beers were hammered that day 😂
rivelneeuq
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lmao I needed that
rivelneeuq
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looking like my future with out the Spain lol
anonymous2025
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eh you didn't get a R for both so don't lose hope. also do you mind if i ask when you interviewed?
anonymous2025
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lol i feel this. did you interview early on and was it for both PURCH and regular MD?
37rhivf98vjd
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I got an R this past Tues for MD admissions (interview early Feb). I applied to LEAD but the email didn't mention LEAD. I assumed this meant an R from both MD and LEAD. My portal still says "under review." Does the portal take a long time to update after an R?
Interviewed at the end of October. MD only
Yeah living in Spain made it slightly more tolerable lol
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anonymous2025
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It’s so confusing to me how some people with interviews from early February are hearing back before people who interviewed in August or October. I’m really trying to draw patterns and see if one is more favorable but it really is random huh? Like I interviewed late January both PURCH and MD and I really don’t know what to expect at all lol
anonymous2025
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That’s weird that it didn’t update hmm? Maybe try calling or emailing them tomorrow to confirm
I interviewed for regular MD on 12/5 and PURCH on 12/17
I remember from my interview day with PURCH they said if you got an R from the MD track that was an R for PURCH too, but it's weird they didn't explicitly say it was, and idk if it is the same for PURCH and LEAD
anonymous2025
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Ya I thought so too but that’s weird it hasn’t updated?
anonymous2025
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Also were u IS or OOS?
This cycle I interviewed in Late September and just heard back, so I can't find any pattern
wakeupaurora
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Do you think all decisions will be released before accepted students' day?
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I really do doubt it based on how they were last year (based on the SDN thread). So I’m gonna guess, no, not all decisions will come out before April 4-5. They really like that April 30 deadline.
UMass Adcom, please surprise me.. in all seriousness. I need to figure out where I’m going and sort out logistics 😭
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anonymous2025
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I feel this sm. I assume a rejection though or have they historically accepted applicants this late 😭
hopefuldoc1122
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Anyone know when waitlist movement usually happens?
wakeupaurora
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:/ seems kind of unfair that some ppl won't get a chance to see the school. Are they done with interviews at least and they are just deliberating current interviewees?
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deleted1212093
After April 30
anonymous2025
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Dang so there haven’t been As in March/April before?
anonymous2025
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The lady I spoke to on the phone said they accept people late March and April because I told her how someone told me there’s a very little chance and she said that’s not true but I’m starting to think it is because spots fill up pretty quickly
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hopefuldoc1122
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Right away or does it happen slowly like regular admissions?
usually pretty quickly and then trickles down as they slowly fill their class. At least that is how I have seen at other schools so I would assume it is similar
anonymous2025
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So anyone who’s applied in a cycle before or just knows more about this all, is it safe to assume in the next couple weeks if I don’t get notified about a WL then end of April it’s an R?
anonymous2025
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But not many this late into it. At least not As. Def lots of WLs
You need to assume an R until proven otherwise. You may get surprised be an A or a WL, but the longer the game goes, the increasingly less likely the odds are.
Might be coping still, but this time last year there was around 300 in the accepted fb group, but this year there is only 170. Either they are accepting differently this year, or people no longer use Facebook
anonymous2025
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I’m just confused like are they admitting way less people this cycle or are they genuinely way more behind idk I wanna be hopeful but it’s hard when everyone ik keeps telling me by now it’s most likely an R
They over accepted for class of 2028 so they might be more stignent with giving out acceptance
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deleted1212093
Source?
current student of class of 2028 lol
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deleted1212093
Thanks! Well I guess in this case adcom might be waiting until April 15 to see if ppl accepted to multiple programs start narrowing down their options.
From AAMC Traffic rules - "On or before April 15, narrow your selection(s) to no more than three schools or programs, and withdraw your acceptance(s) from all other schools or programs"
If over-enrollment is a real issue then this would make sense to me
Edit. Their goal for c/o 2028 was 225 ppl, ended up being 235. C/o 2027 was 200 people and it was smaller in previous years. Class size increased bc of LEAD program starting + this is part of UMass initiative to address shortage in primary care workforce.
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What is the normal/typical class size for UMass?
Like the post above, it should be 225: 25 LEAD, 25 PURCH, 175 Worcester pathway (not sure how many MD/PhD). And yea there was an extra 10 than the expected class size.
Oh cool, 175 is a pretty big class then
I would say the class is 225. PURCH and LEAD are with us until we go until our clinical rotations. They are just at their specific places during clinicals (baystate and lahey).
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ohh okay makes sense then, idk why I thought they were separate lol
+1 post-II R just now, rip my only MD II
When did you interview if you don’t mind me asking?
anonymous2025
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So in this case with over enrollment then do we think they’re trying to decrease the class size by a lot especially considering the Facebook class decrease
unnamedlobster12
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No they def have a set class size (I feel like they said 225 or 235 this yr) its more like they might be taking a more cautious approach/timeline to avoid over enrolling again
