Do Med schools know where else you applied?

[makinmoves]

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[J ROD]

i think they find out eventually after March 15......?

 

[Catalystik]

They don't know all the schools where you applied, but schools that accepted you can see where else you got an acceptance starting in March.

 

[DrBowtie]

They don't know all the schools where you applied, but schools that accepted you can see where else you got an acceptance starting in March.

This

 

[TexasPhysician]

If you tell them....

 

[J ROD]

They don't know all the schools where you applied, but schools that accepted you can see where else you got an acceptance starting in March.

I knew it was something like that....😀

 

[J ROD]

If you tell them....

qft.....

 

[boaz]

They don't know all the schools where you applied, but schools that accepted you can see where else you got an acceptance starting in March.

Only schools that accepted you, or also schools that waitlisted you?

 

[DrBowtie]

Only schools that accepted you, or also schools that waitlisted you?

Accepted.

 

[J ROD]

its accepted....

 

[RevDoc]

How do they know? And does this tick them off?

 

[Catalystik]

If a school accepts you, they receive access to an AMCAS database showing all your acceptances 9after that certain date). They may look, or may not. Mainly it's an issue for very high stat folks that top school yearn to attract. I suspect it helps to drive scholarship offers.

 

[315486]

If a school accepts you, they receive access to an AMCAS database showing all your acceptances 9after that certain date). They may look, or may not. Mainly it's an issue for very high stat folks that top school yearn to attract. I suspect it helps to drive scholarship offers.

I wonder how it affects applicants with no acceptances and only waitlists. Does it make the candidate less desirable because "Hey, no one else wants him, neither do we." Or more, "Hey he hasn't been accepted yet, so if we take him, he'll most likely attend out school."

 

[alibai3ah]

I wonder how it affects applicants with no acceptances and only waitlists. Does it make the candidate less desirable because "Hey, no one else wants him, neither do we." Or more, "Hey he hasn't been accepted yet, so if we take him, he'll most likely attend out school."

Or more desirable, b/c if you don't have other acceptances, you are likely to go to that school.

 

[DrBowtie]

I wonder how it affects applicants with no acceptances and only waitlists. Does it make the candidate less desirable because "Hey, no one else wants him, neither do we." Or more, "Hey he hasn't been accepted yet, so if we take him, he'll most likely attend out school."

THEY CAN'T SEE UNLESS THEY HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED YOU. Its irrelevant.

 

[Catalystik]

THEY CAN'T SEE UNLESS THEY HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED YOU. Its irrelevant.

Exactly! You are accepted on your own merit at any given school. Before they accept you, they can only know your status at other schools if you tell them.

 

[Tutmos]

I think they also use it to help with how many acceptances they should offer vs. putting them on the wait list in the last couple months before D-Day. For example if John Modelstudent is accepted to XYZ state school and also has acceptances to Harvard and Johns Hopkins then they'll assume he's not coming to the state school and invite another good candidate.