accepted vs. waitlisted

[joonkimdds]

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Let's say there is a dental school called XX.
XX accepts 150 students. 50 students per each round(1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
If 30 out of 50 students who were accepted on the 1st round decide not to attend the school, does the school accept that many more people on the 2nd round meaning 80 people accepted on the 2nd round instead of 50?

or do they save these sits for people who will be on the waitlist?

I am just curious whether school will save these sits for waitlisted people or make sure they have all 150 students by the time they go thru 3rd round.

 

[doc toothache]

Where do you come up with all this stuff? It would be reasonable to assume that in the "first round" a school would accept 150 rather than your suggested 50.

 

[wantVCUdental]

i think you may be misunderstanding...
every "round" the schools will give out the maximum number of acceptances, and should anyone reject the offer new seats will open for the next round of interviews..
so if there are 150 students at the school, it will probably accept 150 in the first round, if 100 choose to attend, then 50 will be open in second round... and so forth until the school has filled its class

 

[punkin85]

Where do you come up with all this stuff? It would be reasonable to assume that in the "first round" a school would accept 150 rather than your suggested 50.

i think you may be misunderstanding...
every "round" the schools will give out the maximum number of acceptances, and should anyone reject the offer new seats will open for the next round of interviews..
so if there are 150 students at the school, it will probably accept 150 in the first round, if 100 choose to attend, then 50 will be open in second round... and so forth until the school has filled its class

This isn't true. I know of several schools that DO NOT OFFER THE FULL # OF SEATS on the first round. Yes, it would make sense for them to do so but not all schools actually do it.

 

[Oracle DMD]

This isn't true. I know of several schools that DO NOT OFFER THE FULL # OF SEATS on the first round. Yes, it would make sense for them to do so but not all schools actually do it.

you're right. MWU does not offer ALL of it's seats 12/1. the trend seems to be about 75%-85% of their total seats.

 

[joonkimdds]

If max seats are given each round, then it would mean waitlisted people have no chance to take the seats left from the 1st and 2nd round but they would only take the seats left from the 3rd round and if the 3rd round only accept a couple of people then it would mean that waitlisted people have almost no chance of getting in.

 

[doc toothache]

This isn't true. I know of several schools that DO NOT OFFER THE FULL # OF SEATS on the first round. Yes, it would make sense for them to do so but not all schools actually do it.

Unless you are privy to adcom information we are pretty much dealing with conjecture, but that was not the gist of the post.

 

[jstar86]

to agree with punkin....i have been told specifically by two schools the exact number of seats that were given out on dec 1st and it wasn't the full class. So....this is true for at least two schools!

 

[joonkimdds]

If it's true that DS accept 150 out of 150 seats, and if all 150 people decide to attend, then there wouldn't be interviews after December theoratically although realistically there are some people who deny their acceptances.

And wouldn't it be unfair for someone in waitlist with higher stats not get accepted in 3rd round because the person on the waitlist needs to wait until 3rd round acceptance people deny their seats even when 3rd round people have lower stats than someone on the waitlist?

 

[pacific2013]

If it's true that DS accept 150 out of 150 seats, and if all 150 people decide to attend, then there wouldn't be interviews after December theoratically although realistically there are some people who deny their acceptances.

There is no such school thing as 100% matriculation. I'm not part of admissions so I wouldn't know but I would say the highest would be 75% at most at schools such as UOP. I do, however, know from the interview presentation that UNLV sent out 89 acceptances on December 1st despite the class being 75 because admissions know from experience that around 50% will send in the deposits. So it's possible that DS accept all or even more spots available to begin with.