hey everyone,
i was on the baylor waitlist last year and am currently attending an out-of-state medical school school. i wanted to share my experience which hopefully will be helpful without being discouraging.
i applied as an in-state resident. interviewed on 9/27. 2 months passed without my hearing from them. i called the admissions office with an inquiry on my status, and a lady advised me to write Dr. Hill regularly to update my application and to express my continued interest. she indicated that Dr. Hill loves to recieve e-mails from applicants, and that he loves to know that students are interested in the school. she further recommended that i write him about once every 2 weeks.
as a result, i sent Dr. Hill an e-mail about once a month. in march, i asked Dr. Hill where i was on the waitlist. he replied, "of the approximately 600 applicants interviewed, you are ranked in the middle third. if you do not hear from us soon, you will surely be on the waitlist."
as you all know, baylor ultimately accepts about 300 of the 600 students interviewed (this was true for the incoming 2002 class). being in the middle third mean't that i was ranked between 200 and 400. so theoretically, half the students in the middle-third group (those ranked between 200 and 300) would very likely be accepted.
anyway, to make a long story short, i recieved my waitlist-letter in april, and recieved my rejection later sometime in june. i must have been on the lower part of the middle-third list.
it is important for you to know that there were a good number of SDNer's who got into baylor on May 16th. my case is a specific, isolated example that has no predictive value, since we all recieved a very specific rank from baylor and yours will be different.
sunkists, how are you? this is your fossil-hunting friend =)
askoogi
sigh. but all this time has made me rethink it all.
