DO / MD Waitlists

[tazzysoze]

---

Members don't see this ad.

I have a question about DO and MD waitlists, and was wondering if anyone had an answer. I know once you start orientation at an MD school, you can no longer attend any other MD school, even if they call you from their waitlist. I think the same rule holds for two DO schools.

Does anyone know the protocol for starting at a DO school and being called off an MD waitlist (or vice versa)? Are you still allowed to drop the first school and attend a school that calls you at the last minute? Thanks! 🙂

 

[Kazema]

Well, when I asked one school about it, it seemed to me that it wasn't just the rules that kept schools from letting people matriculate at another school after starting at a different one - the schools themselves felt that it was wrong to "steal" students from another school. The person I asked about when I am "locked in" at a school said that once you attend orientation at another school they will no longer consider you for admission, because taking a student who has already matriculated elsewhere "just wouldn't be right".

So I don't think there is a written rule regarding DO to MD or MD to DO waitlist etiquette (I might be wrong), but if your second school ever finds out that you had already enrolled at another school they probably won't be too happy about it - you'd be making them look bad to other schools.

 

[DrIsh]

A friend of mine go into one school off of a waitlist when the other school had already started. He wanted to go to the school he was waitlisted at more so he packed up an left the first school.

I think this is quite common, I don't think the schools have any real way to communicate that we have student x matriculated so don't pull him off your waitlist.

 

[nerdgrrl]

most of the schools say that it is the student's responsibility to withdraw all pending applications once they have decided to matriculate at a school.

so, it's bad form