December 1st Notification Policy

[SuperDuper]

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Hey guys,

I was thinking about this December 1st notification policy and I became curious about this.

I know that dental schools are already sending out rejection letters and interview invites. Let's say that I get interviewed in September, and the school wants to accept me. They must wait until December 1st to send out the acceptance notification. What happens if they want to reject me after the interview (knock on wood and cross my fingers)? Do they also wait until Dec. 1st to send out the rejection letter or do they do this right away?

If dental schools send out post-interview rejection letters right after the interview, then one could assume that he/she is accepted if that person doesn't get the rejection letter in, let's say, 6-8 weeks?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

[bruinpredent]

has anyone else noticed that Dec. 1st is on a Saturday this year?

From here on out we should just call it Dec. 3rd

 

[armorshell]

Eh, except for a few schools who do it by AADSAS or email or phone call, you have to wait for the mail anyway.

 

[djeffreyt]

Not all schools send out rejections right away. In fact, lot of schools wait. They don't wait until December 1st, necessarily, but rejecting people isn't always a priority, and if it's not a priority, they get around to it whenever they please.

As for not hearing back and assuming you got accepted, not always true. You could just be a reject they don't care enough to tell yet, a waitlister, or an acceptance. Any of the three apply.

I remember being in your shoes too, all of you who are applying, and I don't think saying this will change how any of your act or what you talk about on the forum, but I've generally found that trying to figure out how or why school do anything they do during the application procedure is a generally futile and fruitless effort. It's not worth the time to think about. If you make it you make it and if not, no amount of SDN will change that.

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Some schools hold their rejection letters until after December 1st; others don't. In my own experience and from what I've heard, schools that have interviewed an applicant and then decide to reject him/her are more likely to hold the letter than schools who decide a rejection just after reading the application. Not sure why that is...maybe because they like to sit back and review the applicant pool again with the interviewers?

Within a few days of Dec 1 I received all my acceptance and rejection letters.

 

[SuperDuper]

Thanks a bunch!