How does HPWL vs Reg WL work?

[soulvester]

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Was placed on reg. WL at my top choice. Heard this school has a “ranked” high priority wl and an “unranked” / “regular” wl. I was wondering whats the point of having both types of waitlists at a school. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have everyone ranked? Seems to me the regular wl is basically a silent R since they don’t do post-ii R’s, but I’m curious how these two systems work.

Was also WL at 2 other MDs so I’m going to put my stats below to see what may be the reason why I was placed on WL. (*I alr know my mcat is a red flag but are there any others?)

ORM; OOS; Trad

• 3.9X / 50X (Score got worse but I did explain this in the OIE)
• 4000 clinical; 400 volunteering; 250 leadership; 50 shadowing; 1700 research (2 pubs pending)
• Application & Experiences were themed around mental health advocacy, after witnessing a traumatic exp when I was young
• Had to take care of a family member and switched to full-time clinical bc of it
• Update letter sent