Do medical schools share information about applicants?

[Gauss44]

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I was wondering what information, if any, medical schools share about applicants, other than what's on one's AMCAS application? For example, do they make notes in a database that is accessible to other medical schools?

 

[LizzyM]

The information you submit should be confidential and for in-house use only. When a school offers you admission, it must notify AMCAS and eventually (on a timetable) that information becomes available to other schools that you've received an offer from and eventually to every school you've applied to but all they know is School X offered admission to Gauss44 and eventually they all know where you've chosen to attend.

 

[DameJulie]

If we wasn't accepted into any schools we applied, will this information be shared as well?

For example, School A would say "oh, not only we rejected him/her, so did all the other schools"

 

[gyngyn]

If we wasn't accepted into any schools we applied, will this information be shared as well?

For example, School A would say "oh, not only we rejected him/her, so did all the other schools"

We can see who was not accepted.

 

[TheBiologist]

During the application process schools share nothing about an applicant with any other schools.
Indeed, a school will never know what other schools you have applied to.
In February, the Multiple Acceptance Report will report any acceptances to another school after they have accepted you
In April, the National Acceptance Report will report all acceptances to all schools

We can see who was not accepted.

question - do med schools ever use this information when deciding whether to accept you? for instance, say you are a borderline applicant to a school and they see you've been accepted but your similar competitor has not - would they reject you in favor of the other guy because you already got an acceptance or would this play no role at all?

unless I misread your quote, gonnif, and they can only see this acceptance Report after the individual school accepts you?

 

[gyngyn]

question - do med schools ever use this information when deciding whether to accept you? for instance, say you are a borderline applicant to a school and they see you've been accepted but your similar competitor has not - would they reject you in favor of the other guy because you already got an acceptance or would this play no role at all?

An acceptance can play a role in waitlist management. Just not the way you described.
Since less than 10% of candidates actively remove themselves from a waitlist, acceptances can do so by default. We currently have a bunch of folks holding an acceptance at Harvard, for example. Are they really on the waitlist...

Perfectly good candidates can be seen to hold no acceptances. That doesn't make them less desirable. In one way they are more desirable. We don't have to notify a school to accept them. Furthermore, we don't have to wonder if they are going to ponder the offer for two weeks.

Offering a waitlist position to someone who is holding another acceptance is a bit more complicated. To begin, we have to inform the other school. Depending on the school where they are holding an acceptance, one can usually predict the odds of a quick favorable response to the offer. We still have to give them up to two weeks to decide. If they ultimately decline the offer, we have lost the opportunity for other good candidates who have been picked up in the interval.