Do schools have acceptance quotas per interview batch?

[radioactive15]

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If schools interview in batches (pre-October), pre-December, pre- February, etc do they follow a "limit" of how many students they can accept in each one?

What if one particular group (say the early one) have a much better pool of applicants than the later one? It wouldn't really be fair for some qualified students in the early pool to be WL or rejected in favor of lesser quality students who were good relative to their batch due to a quota?

Does this occur in the medical school acceptance process?

 

[Mad Jack]

No. If a group is all wonderful students, they can all be admitted. If they're all terrible, they might all be rejected. That's how rolling admissions work at most schools, anyway.

 

[KDoc2020]

I remember at my school I interviewed with 9 other students and 8 of us got in. Conversely a friend of mine is the only person who is in the class who did theirs in the month of January interviews that I knew of. It just kind of happens. Just don't suck and you will be fine


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[Goro]

Ours doesn't. If we like them all, we accept them all.

If schools interview in batches (pre-October), pre-December, pre- February, etc do they follow a "limit" of how many students they can accept in each one?

What if one particular group (say the early one) have a much better pool of applicants than the later one? It wouldn't really be fair for some qualified students in the early pool to be WL or rejected in favor of lesser quality students who were good relative to their batch due to a quota?

Does this occur in the medical school acceptance process?

 

[breezy16]

Depends on the school. Semi rolling occurs when decisions are released in batches based on who interviewed when so you can see 1/3 accepted, 1/3 declined, and a 1/3 waitlisted (typically). Schools can have as many batches as they please. Some (Yale, Harvard) will not release any decisions until March. Others release as they go.
I dont think things are quota'ed as much in the beginning for a whole cohort, but once you get into Jan/Feb, things may get a little more strict.

 

[LizzyM]

Depends on the school. Semi rolling occurs when decisions are released in batches based on who interviewed when so you can see 1/3 accepted, 1/3 declined, and a 1/3 waitlisted (typically). Schools can have as many batches as they please. Some (Yale, Harvard) will not release any decisions until March. Others release as they go.
I dont think things are quota'ed as much in the beginning for a whole cohort, but once you get into Jan/Feb, things may get a little more strict.

Another strategy is to admit the best and hope to nab some of them (everyone wants them) and tell the rest that a decision has not yet been made. Then at the end of the season, you see how the mushy middle has sorted itself out. So if you know you will admit 40% of all who are interviewed, you make offers to up to 20% of each interview and delay the rest of the decisions until after you've seen everyone who is going to be interviewed. If less than 20% of the pool in a given time frame is "tip top" then you might admit fewer knowing that you'll have those offers available later.