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24 is the number I heard from the first years who were on the lunchtime student panel. Judging by the number I saw at the ice cream social, I would say that number is reasonable. Now, keep in mind that not everyone who's holding an acceptance goes to second-look, I have no idea how many acceptances have been handed out, and we are still interviewing. I *have* heard that the class is not yet full. They are doing things very, very differently this year, so I cannot promise anything, nor can I make any predictions whatsoever. All I can say is that I'm sorry you've all been left hanging (it's so stressful, I know), but that you should not give up hope yet. 🙂

Also, as for those who have yet to be accepted (and thus have missed second look), keep in mind that there is nothing we can't do for you later. There's a number of us current students hanging around on this forum who would be happy to answer questions, and if you came up to take another look, we'd show you around. Second look just provides a structured time to do it. Trust me, you haven't missed out on anything awesome that can't be repeated. 😉
 
Ditto kbear, I feel you're pain (from the previous page). Hang in there. 🙂
 
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OMG I GOT IN!!! I can't believe it. This was my dream school from the get-go. I'm stayin in CA!! Good luck everyone! :luck:

Oh and I interviewed early/mid Feb. 😍 😀 :hardy:
 
DblHelix said:
OMG I GOT IN!!! I can't believe it. This was my dream school from the get-go. I'm stayin in CA!! Good luck everyone! :luck:

Oh and I interviewed early/mid Feb. 😍 😀 :hardy:
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Congrats!!! Happy to have you on board. 🙂
 
Congrats, Dbl!!!! Sounds like Davis is a great fit for you!!!

Anyone else feel truly happy for the folks that keep getting accepted, but at the same time feel their own ship is sinking? Hold seems like such a terrible position to be in....
 
Yes I feel that way for sure. I am very happy for everybody but of course your heart sinks a little every time someone gets in and that is one fewer space for the rest of us. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
 
kbear12 said:
Congrats, Dbl!!!! Sounds like Davis is a great fit for you!!!

Anyone else feel truly happy for the folks that keep getting accepted, but at the same time feel their own ship is sinking? Hold seems like such a terrible position to be in....
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Thanks everyone! And Kbear, I'm really hoping you get good news eventually from Davis. Look on the bright side of things, they typically accept 100 people right off the bat and then another 100 of the waitlist and they haven't even filled that initial 100 yet. Just think of all those people who have been accepted but are withdrawing and going elsewhere.
 
kbear12 said:
Congrats, Dbl!!!! Sounds like Davis is a great fit for you!!!

Anyone else feel truly happy for the folks that keep getting accepted, but at the same time feel their own ship is sinking? Hold seems like such a terrible position to be in....
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As NBA ballers Michael Ray Richardson and Tracy McGrady would say "The ship be sinking"


I like that quote so much I'm adding it to my signature.
 
it's been a long wait, but I finally heard back positive news today! Finally I get to move back to the west coast. The admissions woman said that a whole bunch of decisions had been made 4/13 and the letters were sent. I did not get a letter today, but when I called she looked me up. Good luck to everyone!!!!! You guys are great and should all get in. Hopefully see you next year!
 
kbear12 said:
Congrats, Dbl!!!! Sounds like Davis is a great fit for you!!!

Anyone else feel truly happy for the folks that keep getting accepted, but at the same time feel their own ship is sinking? Hold seems like such a terrible position to be in....
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kbear, i felt the same way last year. Here are all these people getting in, and you're like well darn, what about me?!??!! Keep your head up, there are TONS of spots left! Even some of the people who are saying they will DEFINITELY go to Davis will end up going elsewhere. It's still early! Just wait till July (at the latest), spots will open up like crazy!!

Congrats to all that got in!! Relax, have some fun and we'll see you in August!!
 
Hi Steve,
I interviewed right around that date and the receptionist definetly took a little bit to look up my file. You may want to try calling again in a few days and hope for a different receptionist..:luck:


Steve203 said:
So I called today because I was tired of waiting and my 5 e-mails haven't been responded to (I interviewed February 5th by the way).
This is how the conversation went:


S203 - Good morning, I wanted to to see what the status of my application was.
Admiss - What is your name and when did you interview?
S203 - Steve203 and I interviewed Feb 5th.
Admiss - No decision, you'll find out in a couple of weeks. (She said this right away without looking at anything, I highly doubt she had that info memorized)
S203 - are you sure...I mean you know without looking anything up?
Admiss - yes
S203 - ok, is the class full yet?
Admiss - its getting there
S203 - what does that mean?
Admiss - it means its getting there
S203 - thanks

I'm pretty confused
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For all those who interviewed, did you send your interviewer a thank you note?
My faculty interviewer was the Dean of Admissions, Dr. Bera
 
Anyone have any idea what the LATEST interview date was of someone who was accepted recently?

And I ditto the question about thank you notes. I know it's been asked a zillion times but how many of you Davis hopers wrote one?
 
firebird69guy said:
kbear, i felt the same way last year. Here are all these people getting in, and you're like well darn, what about me?!??!! Keep your head up, there are TONS of spots left! Even some of the people who are saying they will DEFINITELY go to Davis will end up going elsewhere. It's still early! Just wait till July (at the latest), spots will open up like crazy!!

Congrats to all that got in!! Relax, have some fun and we'll see you in August!!
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Thank you for saying that, firebird!! you give me hope and made me feel much better. I really want to join this party!
 
I wrote a thank you letter to my fac interviewer, but didn't have the contact info and i couldn't remember the last name of my student interviewer so I ended up not writing the student a thank you note, eventhough I had a really good time during that interview. I also wrote a LOI post-interview but I was told that it was probably just going to be thrown away, so who knows if that actually helped.
 
Congratz to everyone who has gotten in recently! :hardy: Anyone get any news today?
 
Anyone make it in the heavenly doors of Davis on this fiiine rainy California day???

(just a pathetic attempt at bumping the thread) 🙂 I wish our mail was here already today!
 
i'm withdrawing, so hopefully that opens a door for someone 🙂.
 
Thank you PeripateticMD! On behalf of those of us still waiting I would like to say YAY and thank you very much. 😀 Are you going to UCSF?
 
Heard from a student interviewer today that Monday is the last day of interviews.... maybe now they'll devote more time to making decisions.


good luck everyone! :luck:
 
Finally got a reply to one of my e-mails today asking what my status was (I interviewed in feb):

The Admissions Committee is working hard to make decisions
post-interview. I believe that the folks interviewed in February will be
reviewed in the next couple of weeks. You will be notified by e-mail as
soon as a decision is made. Thank you for your patience and continued
interest in our medical school.



So if the people in feb are going to be reviewed in the next couple of weeks, that means the people who interviewed in march are going to be reviewed in june, and the people who interviewed in april are going to be reviewed in july.....

ummm...no...not likely. More than likely what is happening is because it is getting so late is that they are just going to review everyone and admit whoever they like...I think interview date has no bearing at this point....rolling admissions my ass
 
This assessment sounds pretty accurate to me. 😕
 
firebird69guy said:
Heard from a student interviewer today that Monday is the last day of interviews.... maybe now they'll devote more time to making decisions.


good luck everyone! :luck:
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Thanx for the info firebird. As for me...still no word in So Cal...😴
 
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Really? I hope. I fear that the adcom might just admit everybody in order that they review the files until the class was full and save themselves the bother of reviewing 200 applications (as I understand it there are 450 interviews conducted for 250 admits).
 
i highly doubt that they would just everybody in order til the class is full. I do think they will take their good 'ol time though as they have been all season.
 
From the earlier posts on the thread, it seems like they've still been sticking to the rolling admissions type format, albeit at a glacial pace. A while back they were accepting the Jan. interviews, and now it seems that they're getting into the Februaries.

There was also a rumor that they split each interview group up into several pieces, and then give them out to separate adcoms, which may explain why it seems some people from an interview group hear before others, as some committees doubtlessly move faster than others. *shrugs* And the wait goes on . . .
 
i called again today asking about any progress on decisions and possibly some hope for me and my fellow holdee's.

"we still have a ton of applications to review so i can't promise you anything"

"not even like may or june or something?"

"i really don't know"

great... that prob means june at the earliest, maybe july? august?!?!

sigh...
 
well, i think they start first week of Aug, so I don't think we'll hear in August. I am on hold though and also found the office to be completely vague and unhelpful when I called. So I guess I am just not expecting to hear anything for a long time (July) and if I do hear something in May or June I will be pleasantly surprised. It does seem sad that a bunch of us are being treated very poorly by the Davis admissions committee this year though.
 
I think the upshot of all of this, at least I hope, will be that when they eventually do get around to admitting people it will be so late in the game and so inconvenient for lots of people that only those of us who really truly do like Davis the best will end up enrolling there. So hopefully in the end the makeup of the class will be beneficially affected in that way. :luck:

Or maybe not. 😛
 
Yeah, the unfortunate part is that some of us have significant others that will be moving with us that need to secure jobs, etc. So even if i wanted to go to Davis more than anything, there might come a point where it is difficult for us to change all of our plans and move back across the country. sigh.
 
kbear12 said:
Yeah, the unfortunate part is that some of us have significant others that will be moving with us that need to secure jobs, etc. So even if i wanted to go to Davis more than anything, there might come a point where it is difficult for us to change all of our plans and move back across the country. sigh.
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You can stay with me until the ball and chain can get it together to move back.

Oh wait, I'm on hold tooooo.

f0ck
 
Any news this week y'all? I'm hoping everyone hears something soon! :luck:
 
Looks like no new this week. Thanks for bein so supportive DblHelix!
 
I interviewed in late february and just barely got the "hold for further consideration" email. I can only imagine what you all have been through while waiting...looks like we're in for the long haul 🙁
 
coral said:
I interviewed in late february and just barely got the "hold for further consideration" email. I can only imagine what you all have been through while waiting...looks like we're in for the long haul 🙁
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:laugh:

I just got it too. Interviewed in October 😡

Welcome aboard. I have this feeling that they are lagging so bad, everyone who waits them out has good odds... Just a thought.
 
I interviewed in mid-February, and got the call from my student interviewer yesterday that I GOT IN!!!!!😱 :hardy:

(so it looks like they're moving on through the mid-feb interviews at this time)

Good luck everyone! They may be late, but they're worth the wait!!! Again, heartfelt wishes for the best of luck to all of you.:luck:
 
chevaliermalfet said:
I interviewed in mid-February, and got the call from my student interviewer yesterday that I GOT IN!!!!!😱 :hardy:

(so it looks like they're moving on through the mid-feb interviews at this time)

Good luck everyone! They may be late, but they're worth the wait!!! Again, heartfelt wishes for the best of luck to all of you.:luck:
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Chev, good $hit man! Congratulations, buddy. You really deserve this one.

Hope to see you there in the fall (oh wait, summer... yikes)
 
Thanks mr.belding! Best of luck to you on the hold list! I have to believe they're gonna hurry things up for you guys. Again, good luck and I hope to see you there in july😱 !!
 
Has anybody heard anything today? I haven't.
 
CONGRATS, Chev!!! I'm really happy for you! Your waiting has paid off!!

And for the rest of us hold folks, let's stay strong and hang in there!
 
This is really starting to get ridiculous....
 
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