March 15th deadline fast appoarching!!!!!

[Medbound2004]

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The March 15th deadline is slowing creeping up. By March 15th all medical school have to issue enough acceptances to fill their entire class. Do most schools adhere to this policy?

 

[verbalassasin]

I doubt it, I have an Interview March 11th and February 28th, if they do then I will be hearing from schools very soon post interview.

 

[ZekeMD]

Originally posted by verbalassasin
I doubt it, I have an Interview March 11th and February 28th, if they do then I will be hearing from schools very soon post interview.

That doesn't mean they can't fill their class with people who interviewed before you. You may have to wait for people to withdraw before you get an acceptance from those schools. I think most schools try to adhere to the rules.

 

[Lochmoor]

That's quite interesting. At Rochester, they said that they had not filled their class yet, so we were not interviewing for waitlist spots. But then they also said that we would hear back in 8 weeks. (maybe it was within 8 weeks) I interviewed last Monday, so 8 weeks would be well past Mar. 15.

Any ideas?

 

[jlee9531]

i think most schools do try to follow this...

maybe they just have to offer enough acceptances to have filled their class by this date (meaning sending out enough letters)...but since most people have a 2 week window to respond back on whether they want to hold the acceptance or not...its possible that their class will not actual get filled by held acceptances until after march 15th.

 

[solousy]

Originally posted by Medbound2004
The March 15th deadline is slowing creeping up. By March 15th all medical school have to issue enough acceptances to fill their entire class. Do most schools adhere to this policy?

So is it fast approaching or slowly creeping up? God save us from the former.

 

[theprizefighter]

EVERYBODY,


IT IS MAY 15, NOT MARCH 15!!!! ALL SCHOOLS MUST ADHERE TO THIS DEADLINE!!!


THEPRIZEFIGHTER

 

[mlw03]

i would think most schools follow the March 15 deadline. why wouldn't they? the AAMC sets rules that we as applicants have to follow, as well as rules for the schools.

anyway, most schools accept at least twice the number of students as will enter their class. march 15 means very little i think. may 15 is the biggie because then people holding 5 acceptances have to let stuff go, and that's when the snowball begins to start rolling down the mountain.

 

[jlee9531]

Originally posted by theprizefighter
EVERYBODY,


IT IS MAY 15, NOT MARCH 15!!!! ALL SCHOOLS MUST ADHERE TO THIS DEADLINE!!!


THEPRIZEFIGHTER

march 15th - the day school should have sent out enough acceptances to fill their class

may 15th - the day students with acceptances have to pick a school to attend.

 

[Newquagmire]

Originally posted by jlee9531
may 15th - the day students with acceptances have to pick a school to attend.

You don't HAVE to. AAMC rules say an applicant "should," meaning "be considerate to your fellow applicants and free up some spots." Schools are also free to start dropping you if you don't withdraw from other schools that you have acceptances at.

You can still accept a school that you are on a waiting list for after May 15. In this scenario, you will probably lose your deposits.

 

[jlee9531]

Originally posted by Newquagmire
Schools are also free to start dropping you if you don't withdraw from other schools that you have acceptances at.

yeah with this as consequence im pretty sure people with multiple acceptances will end up picking one before that day is over.

 

[Megalofyia]

Originally posted by mlw03

anyway, most schools accept at least twice the number of students as will enter their class.

I think this is the key here. If school has an entering class of 100 people then they only need to send out 100 acceptance letters by March 15. However that school knows that there is almost zero chance that all 100 people will be accepting so when you go to an interview in March you may well NOT be interviewing for a waitlist spot because the school still has 100 more letters to be able to send out.

 

[IrishOarsman]

There is no AAMC sanction for schools if they're a bit off on this date. I know from the 1st years at Yale I talked to that they didn't send anything out last year until March 22nd or so (reading their interview book, they said to expect a decision "on or before March 31." bastards 🙂 )

 

[Jalby]

Originally posted by mlw03
anyway, most schools accept at least twice the number of students as will enter their class. march 15 means very little i think. may 15 is the biggie because then people holding 5 acceptances have to let stuff go, and that's when the snowball begins to start rolling down the mountain.

Hate to piss on the parade, but this guy is right. Over the last three years, there wasn't a ton of acceptances that went out on this date. It's only the really good schools who tend not to have filled their class by this date, so it is irrlevant to them. I know my school has already offered enough to fill it's class and I would suspect that most schools who have sent out acceptances have. May 15th (or more like may 25th or so) is the date when a lot of people start getting in because of AAMC deadlines.

 

[RoccoWJ]

Actually folks you can get accepted straight off the bat with a post-March 15th interview. Schools overfill their classes anyway. If they have 120 slots, they can still have 120 filled by March 15th and accept more students because all 120 will not be matriculating.



BEST LUCK TO YA!,

Rocco