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so curious what their criteria for rejecting so early is!
I mean compared to other schools like Tulane, Case, or Boston this is not super early. At the end of the day its like the 3rd best medical school in the nation, they can be super picky about anything if they wanted.
 
They are still coming as in people are inputting the Rs in Admit or you have evidence that they are still sending out Rs
 
If I applied late September, would I have heard back yet? (MSTP) I applied super late everywhere and have no idea what I'm doing with applications but I think my app is good but still nervous.
 
So if we submitted in July and heard nothing, is that good? Or does it not mean anything
Last year on Admit, 2 people made it through the July massacre and got interviews; the other 16 got rejected in either November or December. Take this all with a grain of salt, though, since it is all self-reported data. On the bright side, a 1/9 chance puts you at an 11% chance of an interview.
 
I don't think so! Looks like this wave was all people who applied before September
Thanks for the reply! I am curious though I just looked at the admit.org thing, it looks like everyone last year who did secondaries after 8/29 was rejected. On the other hand, almost all the acceptances before 8/29 had higher "admit scores" than everyone who submitted after 8/29, and of course the sample size for acceptances is small. So do you think they heavily weight people people who were complete after august? Or this is selection bias? Also of course MSTP may differ from MD. EDIT: I guess a decently (not perfectly) controlled experiment is if you take a single person and compare the success of their early vs. later secondary submissions.
 
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Stanford has this on their website: "Application updates are NOT accepted unless an applicant is invited to participate in our interview process. At that time, the interviewed candidate will receive instructions about how to provide this one-time update."

I don't remember receiving instructions about this... does anyone know?
 
Stanford has this on their website: "Application updates are NOT accepted unless an applicant is invited to participate in our interview process. At that time, the interviewed candidate will receive instructions about how to provide this one-time update."

I don't remember receiving instructions about this... does anyone know?
If you didn't receive it then I am guessing it is yet to come?
 
Thanks for the reply! I am curious though I just looked at the admit.org thing, it looks like everyone last year who did secondaries after 8/29 was rejected. On the other hand, almost all the acceptances before 8/29 had higher "admit scores" than everyone who submitted after 8/29, and of course the sample size for acceptances is small. So do you think they heavily weight people people who were complete after august? Or this is selection bias? Also of course MSTP may differ from MD. EDIT: I guess a decently (not perfectly) controlled experiment is if you take a single person and compare the success of their early vs. later secondary submissions.
I really think that the accepted sample size for admit.org is too small to make any meaningful conclusions
 
Stanford has this on their website: "Application updates are NOT accepted unless an applicant is invited to participate in our interview process. At that time, the interviewed candidate will receive instructions about how to provide this one-time update."

I don't remember receiving instructions about this... does anyone know?
On the portal, there's a tab that says Post Interview Update. I'm guessing that page is the instructions they're referring to?
 
Pre-II R lol I can’t tell if it’s for both PSTP and the regular MD or if I can expect another rejections to come separately 🤣
 
Stanford has this on their website: "Application updates are NOT accepted unless an applicant is invited to participate in our interview process. At that time, the interviewed candidate will receive instructions about how to provide this one-time update."

I don't remember receiving instructions about this... does anyone know?
You have to send updates within a week of interviewing that's what they told us on our interview day 09/26, I believe.
 
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