2025-2026 Quinnipiac

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evenfeather said:
the reason for that is quinnipiac is already a school that has historically low yield, about 20% overall or 5 acceptances for 1 matriculant on average. But generally speaking, waitlist yield is usually lower than initial yield at most medical schools due to people on the PWL already having other acceptances etc. Especially true for Quinnipiac since it is private and is known to not give out a ton of scholarships so people often choose their cheaper in-state school or prefer to go to a higher ranked school.

The math also starts breaking down if this were not true and only triple the seats available for waitlist movement are offered acceptances- I'm basing this on admit.org data, but around 480 acceptances were given total in 2025 and currently they've already given out "300 something" seats according to an adcom. We must assume these numbers will remain within a general ballpark because schools normally do not have massive fluctuations year to year.

We know Quinnipiac sometimes clears the entire PWL, but sometimes does not according to what they told people in interviews and testimonies on admit (e.g. 2 years ago it was cleared and people got off from the regular waitlist, but last year it was not). So they cannot have something like 180 acceptances left because then they would clear the PWL basically every single year which contradicts this known info. So a more likely scenario is around 90-130 remaining offers. If they only offered triple the remaining seats, we would be many acceptances short of reaching that target number of "something similar to 480."

This means, again assuming similar numbers with historical data, there should be around 200-250 ish people who interviewed that are currently not holding an acceptance. PWL and regular waitlist is likely not a 50/50 split, as PWL is almost always much smaller than the regular waitlist at most med schools. So a realistic estimate would be around 80-100 people on the PWL, which fits the math and is just enough people for them to sometimes clear the PWL and sometimes not. Any larger than that and the distinction between priority vs. regular waitlist starts to lose meaning.

But all of this is literally just napkin math. It may be possible that the person who said an adcom told them they gave out 300 something acceptances so far just misinterpreted what they meant, or maybe remembered it wrong. Maybe the adcom who said they're expecting to fill 10 seats from the waitlist was just making a wild guess without knowing the details, or trying to manage expectations. Maybe this is in fact a year with massive fluctuations in numbers due to BBB and other factors. Maybe the first 10 people they call from the waitlist will just happen to accept the offer. There are a lot of variables that cannot be known, so the best we can do is work with the information we have. I may be comically wrong at the end of the day, nobody knows. We'll find out in a couple of days either way
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the math gives me a lot of hope as well but I'm still so fearful of some unforeseen change in their selection methodology where they interviewed and accepted students that they felt were more likely to choose them and produce a higher yield. but also, that's just the stress stalking haha
 
FutureDoctorGoose said:
the math gives me a lot of hope as well but I'm still so fearful of some unforeseen change in their selection methodology where they interviewed and accepted students that they felt were more likely to choose them and produce a higher yield. but also, that's just the stress stalking haha
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This is so real, even if things are always a specific way every year I’m always afraid it’ll be my year that things start massively changing 😂 but some of these messages give me hope
 
snow5789 said:
This is so real, even if things are always a specific way every year I’m always afraid it’ll be my year that things start massively changing 😂 but some of these messages give me hope
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Yep, I guess we just have to wait until May 1st/May 4th to see how things go
 
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Does anyone know how often you have to be on campus for M1 and M2? I’m just curious! I know the lectures are recorded but are there a lot of required sessions such as in person anatomy lab sessions per week?
 
snow5789 said:
Does anyone know how often you have to be on campus for M1 and M2? I’m just curious! I know the lectures are recorded but are there a lot of required sessions such as in person anatomy lab sessions per week?
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From my understanding its pretty frequent since there are a lot of small group/collaborative aspects of pre-clinical years. Many current students have shared that they are on campus almost everyday of the work week, but often for short periods of time (like maybe only required to be there for a couple of hours, never the whole day). Hope this helps! Feel free to message me if you have other Qs!
 
snow5789 said:
Does anyone know how often you have to be on campus for M1 and M2? I’m just curious! I know the lectures are recorded but are there a lot of required sessions such as in person anatomy lab sessions per week?
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From prior discussion with a current student, they say:
"We tend to have non-mandatory lecture and occasional mandatory anatomy labs from 8:00-12:00 M-W, Tuesdays we have mandatory clinical skills from 1-5 pm too (gets less frequent further into the year). We have mandatory clinical skills Thursday morning and our mandatory research class on Thursday afternoons (not every week tho), usually only till 3 pm. And Fridays we have lecture + weekly case from 8-12 pm. So MWF we usually have completely free afternoons, which is awesome! And all lectures can also be attended over Zoom, which has been nice for the winter months. I personally go to lecture in person tho!"
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snow5789 said:
Does anyone know how often you have to be on campus for M1 and M2? I’m just curious! I know the lectures are recorded but are there a lot of required sessions such as in person anatomy lab sessions per week?
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MS1 there's usually three days a week on avg you're on campus for stuff like ALC (groups of 4-8), anatomy on Wednesday(starts in your 3rd block and is once a week in groups of 4), clinical arts & sciences on Thursdays from 8-10, followed by a break from 10-1pm which is when people do asynchronous modules/study/etc, and then courses related to your capstone/biostatistics/journal club from 1-3:30pm. Friday there's typically a group alc from 9-10, and then your problem based learning from 10-12 and then you're free for the weekend.

MS2 you have less in person stuff since there's no biostatistics/anatomy. You have problem based learning M-W-F. On M/W it was typically from 8-10, and then two optional lectures from 10-12. Friday PBL is 8-9. Some weeks have some additional time reserved for after PBL to do a mandatory group classwork activity i.e PBL from 8-10, followed by ALC from 10-11.

The way the groups are structures are pretty awesome since you probably will not be in the same group with the same people for most of them. I.E you may have 1-2 other students overlap groups but for the most part you're being shuffled.
 
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doc14147171 said:
anyone else going crazy? Seems so weird that no one has heard anything yet
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You are DEFINITELY not alone. I'm wondering if based on GroupMe/Facebook there are currently around 90 occupied spots, and they're waiting for more to open up before sending a wave of offers. Either way I'm so stressed.
 
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