accepted vs enrolled

[thecleaner]

how can med schools accept so many more students than they enroll? for example some schools only have 100 seats yet they accept 200? What happened to the other 100 students? what if all 200 decided to attend? can someone please explain

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[BlueElmo]

how can med schools accept so many more students than they enroll? for example some schools only have 100 seats yet they accept 200? What happened to the other 100 students? what if all 200 decided to attend? can someone please explain

they die.

 

[DirtyJustice]

they die.

More directly, they kill them.

It is a gamble. They have past enrollment / accepted ratios and base it off of it. Undergrads do the same. It can come back and bite them in the ass (as it did at my undergrad this year) and over enroll. If this is the case, they just over enroll.

 

[wanderer]

They don't have to accept all 200 at the same time. They can accept 100 get rejected by 50 and then accept another 100 later on to fill their class.

 

[dingyibvs]

how can med schools accept so many more students than they enroll? for example some schools only have 100 seats yet they accept 200? What happened to the other 100 students? what if all 200 decided to attend? can someone please explain

say they accept 100, then 70 of them decide to go elsewhere, so they accept 70 more, and 30 of them end up deciding to go else where, so they accept another 30. They end up accepting 200 total, for a class of 100.

 

[DRIN]

how can med schools accept so many more students than they enroll? for example some schools only have 100 seats yet they accept 200? What happened to the other 100 students? what if all 200 decided to attend? can someone please explain

It's called a waitlist 😎

 

[bannie22]

are u lookin at the princeton review book?

i think that book states accepted and enrolld
but accepted is really number of students interviewed
and enrolled is number of students accepted
and not the number of matriculants

 

[LizzyM]

There is a lot of educated gambling going on. Many schools are competing for a small subset of the applicants. Some applicants are sitting there on May 15th with 4-10 offers of admission (and on the waitlist at other schools). So, on May 15 everyone must drop all but one offer (but may stay on an unlimited number of waitlists). A school may know that many of the fine applicants offered admission will choose to go elsewhere. Knowing that, they may make 200 offers of admission hoping to fill 100 seats. If on May 16, they have only 90 seats filled, the med school starts calling people who were placed on the waitlist. In the unlikely event that they have 102 bodies for 100 seats they'll make it work. In all likelihood, at least 2 will drop later when they get off of waitlists at other schools. The real problem arises when there are 20% more students than seats.... in one instance years ago, a school offered one year of free tuition to anyone who agreed to delay admission by one year. No dean wants to have to do that.

 

[fahimaz7]

There is a lot of educated gambling going on. Many schools are competing for a small subset of the applicants. Some applicants are sitting there on May 15th with 4-10 offers of admission (and on the waitlist at other schools). So, on May 15 everyone must drop all but one offer (but may stay on an unlimited number of waitlists). A school may know that many of the fine applicants offered admission will choose to go elsewhere. Knowing that, they may make 200 offers of admission hoping to fill 100 seats. If on May 16, they have only 90 seats filled, the med school starts calling people who were placed on the waitlist. In the unlikely event that they have 102 bodies for 100 seats they'll make it work. In all likelihood, at least 2 will drop later when they get off of waitlists at other schools. The real problem arises when there are 20% more students than seats.... in one instance years ago, a school offered one year of free tuition to anyone who agreed to delay admission by one year. No dean wants to have to do that.

I didn't think that the accreditation committee would allow for extra students?

 

[LizzyM]

I didn't think that the accreditation committee would allow for extra students?

I think that if you are 1-2% over (e.g. 1-4 additional students depending the class size) it would not cause accreditation problems. One presumes that there is that much wiggle room in the resources of the school but being significantly over requires that you provide some students an incentive to go away & come back next year.

 

[jackson1]

I didn't think that the accreditation committee would allow for extra students?

One of my interviewers was actually talking to me about this school that had extra students (I wont say which one in case it's not supposed to be known)-she said that no one took the offer for reduced tuition, so I think they just took all the extra students and made it work.

 

[LizzyM]

One of my interviewers was actually talking to me about this school that had extra students (I wont say which one in case it's not supposed to be known)-she said that no one took the offer for reduced tuition, so I think they just took all the extra students and made it work.

The school I heard of was in NYC and this happened quite a few years ago. I think that an additional 2% can be absorbed but I can't see how a school can absorb an over-enrollment of 20% or more, particularly in the clinical rotations.