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Ahhh I see where you’re confused. She definitely used the term “list”. So yes they get together and come up with a list. It’s ranked in the sense that there’s a two tier ranking system (top priority and reg). And “unranked” because they try to make it seem like everyone has an equal opportunity to get off the wl when someone withdraws when in actuality that’s not the case.
Ahhhh that makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
Maybe by movement she meant like more people are dropping this year compared to last year?
Geez. So does that mean for instate students their average debt comes over to around 350k + ?
I guess… The fixed costs I can’t do anything about are the 53K/yr tuition + health insurance and the student housing that will come out 20K/yr. Maybe if I only eat ramen noodles everyday I can squeak out a total COA of 75K/yr
Woah where did you hear that from?
Federal lawsuit alleges UCLA medical school uses a race-based admissions process
And the thing is I totally understand ORM frustration. It sucks to work really hard and not get what you want. But also on the other side of the coin, in no world would it make sense not to have urm physicians. A lot of urms come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They reflect the general population and their lived experiences contribute to the betterment of medical practices in urm patients. And in all honesty when you really look at it only like 5 % of doctors in the us are latinx and same goes for black physicians. They make it seem like 50% of the physician population are affirmative action hires lol. Even if they completely eradicate holistic admissions I doubt these crybabies would have much of a higher chance of getting in lol.
Lmao most likely the block is hot.
I fully agree. I was also an Asian male with a 123 on CARS but they were extremely forgiving bc I'm ESL & low-SES. I never even expected an interview let alone a WL from UCLA.
I just don’t know in what way it would affect it. Is this going to hurt URM applicants?
The truth is you'll probably never know. My guess, is that it wont be a drastic change in student demographics tbh. I have confidence in Dr. Lucero and UCLA that they'll stick to their commitment to reviewing holistically and addressing the need of a diverse physician workforce. I didnt meet UCLA standard by any metric, but I was blessed with an opportunity to be here after getting pulled from the WL, and I'm so grateful and im thriving. For those who are on the WL, I remember I got off the WL about 2wks after CTE. I was planning to attend SLU prior to getting off the WL at UCLA and even getting off the WL I had no issues getting grad housing. I stayed at Hilgard, my first year and half or so. and Hilgard if available is a place i would rank highly btw. its really convenient
You CTE’d at SLU and still got off the waitlist at UCLA? I thought we weren’t allowed to remain on any waitlists after our CTE date. Or did you let UCLA know you wanted to remain on the waitlist?
I may be using the terminology incorrect. I got my acceptance 2 weeks after everyone was able to only have 1 acceptance, but can stay on WL. i dont remember if thats CTE or Plan to enroll.
Just curious, are you planning on attending UCLA?
Don't people have a 5 business day deadline for those offers?
Thanks for this update purple! Did you get to ask about the UC Postbacc Consortium email?
Yes I did actually! She said that they just sent that email as a mass email only because the deadline is close. She said it doesn’t mean anything at all and it was sent to thousands of students
You're the GOAT. That's a relief
Did they tell you anything about WL movement?
Yes, they said that there has been more movement this year compared to last year. I asked what she meant by "movement" and she said that more students have been dropping their offers this year compared to last year. I asked if there has been any delays to releasing offers this year considering that there hasn't been anything sent since April 30th and she said that there's still a lot of students that are holding multiple offers. She said that they have been urging accepted students to drop their acceptances if they know they will not be attending but she said that it appears that this year students are taking longer to make a decision either due to financial reasons or something else. She said that there will be more acceptances but she doesn't know when they will be released but that students have until June 2nd to decide. She just said to be patient for right now and once they have a better idea of how many students will or will not be attending they will release more acceptances. She did not indicate the amount of acceptances that would be released or around when to expect.
You’re literally the best. Thank you for sharing this update! Hopefully we’ll be classmates in UCLA 💛
aw this is so sweet! thank you so much i hope so too <3
Just wondering, did they seem to agree that no additional acceptances have been sent out since April 30th?
Yes she was really sweet and acknowledged that they haven’t sent anything since then. She said something a long the lines of “I’m a super impatient person myself so I totally understand how frustrating it is to wait. On my end, I’ve been waiting too for some more acceptances to be released but nothing has been sent so far”
That’s what doesn’t make sense to me either tbh. Especially with CTE coming up for a lot of people I don’t understand how just waiting and watching makes any sense
Could it have something to do with the lawsuit but they just can’t talk about it?
Who knows 🙁 if there’s anyone that’s in the accepted groupchat that can give some insight into what the headspace is amongst accepted students and whether or not it seems like a lot of students are still on the fence would be really helpful!
And if someone can provide the # of people in the gc!
Thanks!! Do u know when that second look is?
Thanks! I'm just so confused why they have until 6/2 or 5/20 to decide 🙁 I thought it was 5 days! Just wish I knew the thinking...
