CCLCM acceptees: "intent to matriculate" email from Liz Myers?

[SnappyTurtle]

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Did anyone who was accepted to CCLCM (not from a hold/waiting list) receive an email with the following contents from Liz Myers today? :

"I hope all is well with you. I am e-mailing to confirm that you plan to matriculate at CCLCM on July 10. Please e-mail to confirm as soon as possible.

All the best,

Elizabeth Myers, M.Ed. "

I have to admit that this email gave me a bit of a scare, since it seemed kind of binding, and I always thought that we could stay on as many waiting lists as we wanted, so long as CCLCM was the only acceptance we were holding. I know Dean Franco was pretty reluctant about letting us know at Second Look that we could do this, but it just seems kind of wrong for a school to force us to make a commitment this early in the game, especially since it isn't even May 15th yet and lots of us are desperately hoping to hear back from the schools we've been waitlisted at. (I, for one, plan to withdraw my acceptance at CCLCM the minute I hear back from one of my waiting list schools.)

 

[Doko]

Hey Snappy,

I totally feel you on this one. I was one who asked about Waitlisted schools during the second day of the Revisit Weekend, and got rebuffed.

I'm not sure how they'll react if you decide to matriculate at another school, but I'm sure it happens... but the way I see it, most schools aren't going to dig into their waitlists until June, and since we matricule in July, that only leaves a month.

 

[Saluki]

That's weird... I didn't get that email 😕 You aren't holding more acceptances, just other waitlists, right? I'm holding onto one or two other waitlists, and I didn't even know it was a problem- I don't think that they could restrict you from going to another school if you got in off the waitlist, at least according to AAMC rules. Though of course according to those rules you're allowed to hold acceptances to multiple schools till May 15, not April 15. CCLCM must be a good school; they're already powerful enough to change the trafficking rules 😉

 

[SnappyTurtle]

Thanks for the input guys. Tomorrow, I'm gonna call AMCAS to make sure CCLCM can't bend the rules, then email back with an honest description of the situation. Hopefully, they won't dump me for trying to hold on to my meager waitlist chances (I'd be totally screwed if I didn't get off a waitlist, since I withdrew from all of my other acceptances to satisfy their April 15th deadline). Anyway, I'll let you know how things turn out.

 

[Doko]

Thanks for the input guys. Tomorrow, I'm gonna call AMCAS to make sure CCLCM can't bend the rules, then email back with an honest description of the situation. Hopefully, they won't dump me for trying to hold on to my meager waitlist chances (I'd be totally screwed if I didn't get off a waitlist, since I withdrew from all of my other acceptances to satisfy their April 15th deadline). Anyway, I'll let you know how things turn out.

Thanks, Snappy. That would be awesome!

 

[SnappyTurtle]

Ok. It looks like my worries were all for nothing. I called AMCAS and they told me that we can hold as many waitlist positions as we want, up until the first day of orientation, and that no school can retract their acceptance offer should we decide to do so. The same "nothing is binding until you sign the orientation papers" rule applies if you are admitted off the waiting list. Some schools will try to convince you that offers of admission from their waiting list are binding, which is absolutely not true. If you get in off the waiting list at a preferred school, but later hear back from your dream school, you are free to matriculate at your dream school, as long as you haven't started the orientation process at your preferred school. In addition, schools can only see through AMCAS where you are holding acceptances, not where you are holding waitlist spots.

This all made sense when I called CCLCM, and they told me that I probably got the email because AMCAS was slow at updating withdrawals, so it looked like I was holding multiple acceptances.

Anyway, July 10 seems like it's just around the corner, but I'm still going to keep my fingers crossed about getting some waitlist movement.