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yes!
purple3081
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+1 WL IS not top of WL. Interview 1/24
There was decent wl movement last year, where most of top of wl folks and some of regular wls were accepted
albinotaco18
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Yes, mine says "near top of the waitlist"! Sorry I should have specified😓
artemisqueen
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+1 IS waitlist. Doesn’t say top of the waitlist for me. Where did it say for those who got it?
premedwhoopss
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+WL top of list, does UCLA accept letters of intent post wait-list/when does WL find out if they got the spot?
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During office hours they said you can submit loi but they wouldnt be read or considered
88straight
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following this. Also, do they even read our update letters?
premedwhoopss
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would be or would not?
+1 IS WL interviewed in September.
Wailisted, no "top". Anyone know how many are "top of the waitlist" and how many are regular waitlist?
looks like ALOT of people got WL 😕
premedwhoopss
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according to MSAR, they offer 250 waitlist spots and 150 offers, so prob somewhere in 50-100 TOFTWL and the rest regular is my guess
happypremed2001
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same
artemisqueen
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wow that’s a lot. Tell me why I assumed top of the waitlist is actually the first 10 or something 😅 Not until 50-ish
premedwhoopss
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that's just my guess! it could very well be 10 but that seems low considering the 250 WL spots 🤷♀️
purple3081
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Is near the top and top of the waitlist the same thing or two different categories?
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Out of the I'm assuming 1,000 or so they interviewed this cycle, then does that mean a quarter of the interviewees were accepted, a quarter were waitlisted, and half were rejected? I have no idea if those figures are accurate so I'm waiting on people who have better perspectives.
purple3081
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Honestly that sounds about right. Did anyone get rejections today?
heir_of_snakes
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Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Did everyone who said they received a "top" email have the words " As your application is near the top of our list" in their email, or did anyone's "top" email not have the word "near" in it?
purple3081
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I honestly feel like us late January interview folks basically interviewed for WL spots. I didn’t really see anyone from the later Jan interview dates get an A
I can see this proceeding to "I got..." top of the waitlist, near the top, really adjacent to near the top, slightly to kinda adjacent to being near the top, regular waitlist, and bro please don't take it the wrong way but you miiiiight not have much of a chance so maybe take this weekend to indulge in a delicious cupcake or two. 😉
Brothers and sisters, this is genuine: from my exhausted but excited heart to yours, you deserve a good relaxing weekend. You've done SO MUCH this cycle. Primaries, secondaries, tests, more tests, interviews, and a ton of other stuff. I commend you on everything you've accomplished. I hope to meet some of you someday soon whether you were accepted or a regular waitlist, like I was, hopefully here or at another school.
Brothers and sisters, this is genuine: from my exhausted but excited heart to yours, you deserve a good relaxing weekend. You've done SO MUCH this cycle. Primaries, secondaries, tests, more tests, interviews, and a ton of other stuff. I commend you on everything you've accomplished. I hope to meet some of you someday soon whether you were accepted or a regular waitlist, like I was, hopefully here or at another school.
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dreamingmed
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I have the same question.
+1 IS, Not in the top of the waitlist...
Can someone who got "Top of the waitlist" or "Near the Top of the waitlist", paste a snippet of the email?
dreamingmed
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Thank you. Regular WL I received says
"Your application to the 2025 entering class has been carefully and holistically reviewed by our Admissions Committee and while it was not selected for one of the limited spaces available for an admission offer, the Admissions Committee is pleased to offer you the option to be placed on our alternate list. Candidates from the alternate list will be offered admission should class spaces open prior to the start of classes in August 2025. "
Now the remaining mystery is Are there only two buckets ( near the top and regular) or 3 buckets (top, near the top and regular) .. I am trying to understand my chances with those tiers 🙂 🙂
"Your application to the 2025 entering class has been carefully and holistically reviewed by our Admissions Committee and while it was not selected for one of the limited spaces available for an admission offer, the Admissions Committee is pleased to offer you the option to be placed on our alternate list. Candidates from the alternate list will be offered admission should class spaces open prior to the start of classes in August 2025. "
Now the remaining mystery is Are there only two buckets ( near the top and regular) or 3 buckets (top, near the top and regular) .. I am trying to understand my chances with those tiers 🙂 🙂
heir_of_snakes
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Based on the fact that there are a ton of active followers of this thread, if there were something above “near the top” on the waitlist, someone would have reported it already
Plus I doubt the admissions office would openly tell multiple people “you are at the top of our list”, because “the top” refers to a singular person
Plus I doubt the admissions office would openly tell multiple people “you are at the top of our list”, because “the top” refers to a singular person
People who said they were “top of waitlist” just confused others
eggplant05
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+[emoji23[emoji644][emoji645]] regular waitlist interviewed in September
LadyGagaFan
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+1 IS regular WL, interviewed Oct!
truthwarrior
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+1 OOS top of waitlist ec
purple3081
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On the MSAR report it says that they usually offer 250 WL positions and send out 150 offers. How does that make sense? Isn’t that a LOT of people that get accepted off the WL?
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RadRaddish
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This is a silly question but will UCLA send us a reject email soon for those of us that have not got interviews? Or should I send them an email to withdraw the application since I got accepted somewhere else?
Does anyone know the answer to this??
Anyone notice all those designated “top of the waitlist” are OOS applicants? Interested to know what type of correlation this has
purple3081
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that’s very interesting I wonder why that is
