Alternate List, stop pulling my leg!!!

[SirShagaLot]

Hey all, just looking to start a thread about alternate lists, how they work, what they mean, your's or other's experiences with alternate lists ecttt..... I 've heard people say many things about alternate lists. should i hold out hope?

Thanks 😕

 

[Dutchboy]

Hey all, just looking to start a thread about alternate lists, how they work, what they mean, your's or other's experiences with alternate lists ecttt..... I 've heard people say many things about alternate lists. should i hold out hope?

Thanks 😕

Sorry, nothing good to say. Last year I was on a alternate list at Case, Creighton, and the "next to be contacted list" at Louisville. I didn't get in on any of them, and had to wait till this year for my acceptance.

 

[Comet208]

Amount of luck one may have after being placed on an "alternate/wait/next to be called- list" highly depends on the school and the timing. All I have to say is that if it is early in the game and you have been placed on a good position of the waitlist, you still have a shot at that school and from there it is just a matter of being patient.

 

[Gurl21]

Anyone know relatively what percentage of people get off the waitlist for UPitt?

 

[JavadiCavity]

At Pacific, people on the alternate list during a given admission's cycle who aren't admitted are guaranteed acceptance during the next admission cycle! This year 28 or 29 alternates chose to wait an entire year in order to attend Pacific.

I'm not sure how many people are Pacific's wait list each year nor am I sure how many are accepted each year from the list. From what I gathered, it varies from year to year.

 

[TRACKMASTER]

At Pacific, people on the alternate list during a given admission's cycle who aren't admitted are guaranteed acceptance during the next admission cycle! This year 28 or 29 alternates chose to wait an entire year in order to attend Pacific.

I'm not sure how many people are Pacific's wait list each year nor am I sure how many are accepted each year from the list. From what I gathered, it varies from year to year.

For real? Wonder why they want to throw their money away like that?

I interviewed there. The city is beautiful but the school is too expensive and very overrated. I really wouldn't be excited to say that I was going to dental school there as opposed to any other school.

Seems like a big waste of hard earned money. How do they sell something like that to such intelligent people?

 

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At Pacific, people on the alternate list during a given admission's cycle who aren't admitted are guaranteed acceptance during the next admission cycle!

so... "you're not good enough to get in this year, but we promise to let you in next year"

that's an interesting policy

 

[Kremlar]

At Pacific, people on the alternate list during a given admission's cycle who aren't admitted are guaranteed acceptance during the next admission cycle! This year 28 or 29 alternates chose to wait an entire year in order to attend Pacific.

I'm not sure how many people are Pacific's wait list each year nor am I sure how many are accepted each year from the list. From what I gathered, it varies from year to year.

Does "application reviewed/no decision made" "Re-Review in January" Count as being on the waiting list? They changed the status of my application to that and I was wondering if that means I am guaranteed acceptance next year???

 

[drengineer]

Does "application reviewed/no decision made" "Re-Review in January" Count as being on the waiting list? They changed the status of my application to that and I was wondering if that means I am guaranteed acceptance next year???

In my humble opinion, nothing is guaranteed. But sometimes i'm worng.

 

[JavadiCavity]

so... "you're not good enough to get in this year, but we promise to let you in next year"

that's an interesting policy

Here's the problem. Of the 2600 applicants to Pacific, nearly 800 of them are considered competitive, and all would be accepted in a perfect world with unlimited resources. The admissions committee can only admit 143. That means that a lot good applicants go unaccepted. Hence, offering these otherwise ideal applicants a spot in the following year is an excellent option for those who really wanted to attend this year.

 

[natroncb]

Here's the problem. Of the 2600 applicants to Pacific, nearly 800 of them are considered competitive, and all would be accepted in a perfect world with unlimited resources. The admissions committee can only admit 143. That means that a lot good applicants go unaccepted. Hence, offering these otherwise ideal applicants a spot in the following year is an excellent option for those who really wanted to attend this year.

Seems like they would just make a pile up of "good applicants". So every year they may have 80 spots in a new class but 30 of them are already given to the prior years alternate list? Now what about the top applicants for the given year? And you are telling me 28 people turned down acceptances elsewhere just to attend Pacific a year later? 😕

 

[Audio]

That UOP policy sounds pretty sweet. Especially if you apply in your 3rd year of undergrad!

 

[JavadiCavity]

Seems like they would just make a pile up of "good applicants". So every year they may have 80 spots in a new class but 30 of them are already given to the prior years alternate list? Now what about the top applicants for the given year? And you are telling me 28 people turned down acceptances elsewhere just to attend Pacific a year later? 😕

Shocking, but 28 people is the number an admissions committee member told me during lunch. And according to this same adcom, it's roughly the same each year. It's nice for the school and it's nice for applicants who really want to go. I have a couple of friends who decided to wait the extra year to attend Pacific rather than attend somewhere elsle. That only means that 28 people considered Pacific worth the wait.

 

[JavadiCavity]

Does "application reviewed/no decision made" "Re-Review in January" Count as being on the waiting list? They changed the status of my application to that and I was wondering if that means I am guaranteed acceptance next year???

Unfortunately, that means you are being strung along because you are one of the 800 that they haven't decided to interview. You'll clearly know when and if you are placed on the wait/alternate list. I fairly sure that all people ont the wait list have an interview first.

 

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javadicavity...

in a way, i think the policy is generous and attracts students who really want to attend UOP. however, doesn't this create an ironic cycle that gives preference to 'inferior' applicants? by promising admission to applicants who weren't the cream of the crop one year, doesn't that take away seats from next cycle's superior applicants who also really want to attend UOP? i'm not trying to put UOP down, but i think this policy has some fundamental flaws in it... the competition has been consistently rising the last few years, so wouldn't it be in UOP's best interest to attract the top applicants in each cycle?

 

[TRACKMASTER]

At Pacific, people on the alternate list during a given admission's cycle who aren't admitted are guaranteed acceptance during the next admission cycle! This year 28 or 29 alternates chose to wait an entire year in order to attend Pacific.

I'm not sure how many people are Pacific's wait list each year nor am I sure how many are accepted each year from the list. From what I gathered, it varies from year to year.

thats very unfair.

 

[TRACKMASTER]

Shocking, but 28 people is the number an admissions committee member told me during lunch. And according to this same adcom, it's roughly the same each year. It's nice for the school and it's nice for applicants who really want to go. I have a couple of friends who decided to wait the extra year to attend Pacific rather than attend somewhere elsle. That only means that 28 people considered Pacific worth the wait.

no, that means that UOP was able to brainwash 28.

 

[Kremlar]

Unfortunately, that means you are being strung along because you are one of the 800 that they haven't decided to interview. You'll clearly know when and if you are placed on the wait/alternate list. I fairly sure that all people ont the wait list have an interview first.

Atleast im one of the 800... (trying to think positive) could be worse, I could be one of the 2600 that they initially got.. so I made it to the top 1/3... YAY...!! lol...

 

[savvysearch]

At Pacific, people on the alternate list during a given admission's cycle who aren't admitted are guaranteed acceptance during the next admission cycle! This year 28 or 29 alternates chose to wait an entire year in order to attend Pacific.

I'm not sure how many people are Pacific's wait list each year nor am I sure how many are accepted each year from the list. From what I gathered, it varies from year to year.

That's a very progressive, very generous policy. So I guess for some people, Pacific's waitlist is a very coveted position.

 

[berryfremont]

I don't see anything wrong with this method of acceptance and why some people choose to wait a year before attending. This allows you to take a year off and to relax before spending the rest of your life in school and work. The people on the alternate list most likely are very prepared to attend dental school and UOP would probably accept these applicants if they had room for them. However since they only have room for 143 they allow them to accept the next year. I wish all of the dental schools would use this method, because if you put all of the time, money, and effort in to attending their interview and doing well in their eyes you should be rewarded with an acceptance. People need to remember that being put on the alternate list means that they would like for you to be accepted, but are limited in their numbers. If they did not want you they would not have put you on the alt. list but rather rejected you. They still get the cream of the crop from next year, because they do not send out 150 alternate list positions but rather a select few, leaving many spaces for the next years cream of the crop.