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See here (https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/amcas/faqs/305002/canschoolsseeotherschools.html), and it's actually February and April that they're released.
Schools absolutely look and yes it's a resource used to recruit applicants away from other schools; this is why applicants accepted off waitlists have been known to receive scholarship offers.
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Question: so schools can see where you've been accepted (after the release of the acceptance report) before making a decision about you application? Do some schools (i.e. the March 15th acceptance date schools) wait until the release of the initial acceptance report in February before finalizing their acceptance offers?
No. In February, only schools that have accepted you get to see where else you have been accepted.
@breakintheroof is correct, the MAR only becomes available for an applicant to a school once that school accepts them.
No. We can see where those we have accepted are holding in March (or thereabouts) and as much as we might like to rescind the acceptance based on this behavior, it is not an acceptable reason to do so. We can withhold recruitment $, though!
hm....so let's say if an applicant were seen to have received tons of good offers from better ranked schools, it might actually work against this said applicant in terms of recruitment $ in a lower ranked school?
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I don't understand why you would withhold recruitment money from an strong applicant who has other good choices. Isn't that exactly the kind of applicant you would want to recruit? Why would you spend recruitment money on someone who no other offers or who has withdrawn from other schools?
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There are plenty of great recruitment scholars who don't needlessly hold dozens of acceptances.
Given that most schools don't release financial aid info until the spring, why would anyone subtract points from an applicant who is just trying to make the best financial decision for them and their family? "Can't imply anything good?" I don't get this. And if the intention to attend your school isn't 100% clear, again, wouldn't that be a reason to extend, not withhold, recruitment funds?
I know you were just translating gyngyn, but I feel like I see this line of thinking all over sdn and I've never understood it.
I didn't realize we were talking about "dozens." That indeed would be needless. What about 5 or 8 schools, though?
I can understand 4 or 5.
Last year I had a woman with dozens.
I wanted to do something . There really is nothing we can do but to expect that without $, they will go elsewhere.
Thankfully, she did.
So what factors does recruitment $ depend on? Would it have anything to do with # acceptances to other schools/quality of other schools in a good or bad way?
So if a person have 4 or 5 schools all in the east coast, then one from your school which is in CA, then you'd probably thought, hm, that person apparently has less reason to come to CA without the $, the you wouldn't act on it?
May I ask how does the school use recruitment money? for what kind of purpose? I thought they did that to allure a student who may otherwise attend other schools? No?
It entirely depends on how badly we want the applicant and how the high risk of them going elsewhere is.
Paraphrasing a dean of admissions here regarding this applicant: "we're glad he didn't end up choosing us"
Ha! When I was thinking of changing my profile picture to a penguin, that was what it was going to be!
5 Days!!!
Bender fender!
That applicant certainly made history. But for an off reason, like making into JAMA as the case study patient.
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Just thought you should know: for about the first five times I saw your SDN tag, I kept reading it quickly as "precise hamburgers", and for the life of me could not understand what that meant. Good thing I learned to read! 🙂
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next step, "lean" to spell.
I had said that before, but thought I was just confused as well 😛
I totally did.
Ugh, I'm not good with computers, evidently.
Hehe, I noticed that and was extremely confused. I'm sure gyngyn is very offended to be attributed to my spelling errors.
And yes, I have not yet gotted da heng off speelling.
Just decided to go to the west coast earlier than planned--on the 15th. This way if I'm sad because of the results, I'll be traveling-sentimental kind of sad, not sit-at-home-computer-staring kind of sad. I often find dislocation helps with sadness coping.
Got a nice tub of Breyer's Vanilla Bean ice cream for the unfortunate event of all around rejection. Thankfully I have like 5-6 schools releasing decisions on the 15th so ... Guess I'll just have to wait and see. Top choice or not, I'm just waiting for that one acceptance to know that no matter what, I'm going to be a physician.
Exactly!
Where there many II issued this week? From the schools I follow very few gave out any this week. Anyone else...?
Woww! 5 days left!!
So nervoussssss! Anyone else thinking "what if the the adcom members don't agree with the screeners/interviewers!"
Ahhhhhh!
So nervoussssss! Anyone else thinking "what if the the adcom members don't agree with the screeners/interviewers!"
Ahhhhhh!
The first acceptances come out October 15th, but can you be waitlisted before this date?
I looked back at one of my schools of interest, and realized that several people claimed to be waitlisted a little over a week before October 15th, and it wasn't related to early decision factors either.
I looked back at one of my schools of interest, and realized that several people claimed to be waitlisted a little over a week before October 15th, and it wasn't related to early decision factors either.
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Yes, schools can communicate any decisions, except for acceptances, before the 15th.
Good luck, everyone! Can't wait to be in your shoes next year.
I suspect that there may be a slight rise in II's being given out after the 16th since some people may decline or cancel their interviews if they're accepted into some place they really want to go to. Of course, that's also just optimistic me speaking.
Definitely having trouble focussing on so many things...
