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Rejected 🙁
rather "not acceptable"
Not even waitlisted.. Stupid not acceptable....I hate that wording...why cant they just say rejected...grrrrr
late - rejected.
it almost seems like your decision is in the order you interview. really early people - accepted. medium people - waitlisted. late - rejected.
ugh. stupid.
What did they actually say? Like, what was the full sentence(s)?
Wow, thats harsh."The admissions committee has made a decision on your application and has found you not acceptable"
I hate that you got rejected. I hope VCU will pull through for you!Not even waitlisted.. Stupid not acceptable....I hate that wording...why cant they just say rejected...grrrrr
Wow, thats harsh.
Sorry about the rejections, I was really rooting for you guys. Did you find out by calling or snail mail?
I hate that you got rejected. I hope VCU will pull through for you!

I interviewed the other day and they told us that they had handed out ~165 acceptances out of ~250 total. So they're not technically out of seats, but rather probably being very picky at this point.
Hope that helps.
I'm afraid to call and find out where I am on the wait list!Interviewed Oct 24
Called today: Bottom third wait list (OOS)
Good luck to all



isn't their class size only ~110?
It is 110, but a bunch of the people they accept will get multiple acceptances and eventually enroll somewhere else. So, like every medical school, they give out more acceptances than seats in the class.
They're increasing it to around 120 this year, fyi.
My student tour guide speculated that they would increase the number of seats again. They had almost 115 last year...(5 more than the year before), well that's what he said anyway.


interviewed 11/30, wait-listed (top 1/3). i thought my interview went really well, oh well.
Called today, waitlist. Interviewed 12/5.
interviewed early Nov, got waitlisted late Nov, got acceptance last week. sent in rejection today.
Looks like their wait list moves fast. good luck folks!
so I called and got the answer: bottom 1/3rd waitlist.
that sucks.
I'm ticked because I know it was because my interviewer on the ADCOM didn't like me. She kept making snarky comments to me, rolled her eyes a lot, and was just really unpleasant. I wish I had requested another interview, but it's too late for that.
I wonder how many students can get off the lower 1/3rd...probably not too many. 🙁
From just about every account I've heard, the EVMS panels do their best to play devil's advocate. There's a good chance your interviewer didn't hate you, he/she was just playing the part to see how you handled it.
Wow! You got off the waitlist already? So you got off the waitlist a month after you were placed on it? Did you do anything between getting waitlisted and getting the acceptance, like sending an update letter? Also, by sending in rejection, did you mean that you decline their offer?

From just about every account I've heard, the EVMS panels do their best to play devil's advocate. There's a good chance your interviewer didn't hate you, he/she was just playing the part to see how you handled it.
They try to play devil's advocate, but they're not that good at it. God bless 'em. They seemed like just really, really good people. They didn't have it in them to be difficult, at least not in my interview. But hey, they gave it their best shot. 🙂
They did a poor job with me too. After one or two questions they warmed up to me and loved me. OOS acceptance 3 weeks later!