May 15th Countdown.

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NoMoreAMCAS said:
Where is the movement thread? Is it not in this forum?
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it's in pre-allo, but nobody posts there, so it keeps getting lost, and some of us keep bumping it - please use it, it'll help us people who are praying to get off waitlists!
 
Oh mannnnn today's the day!!!! Good luck everyone!:xf:
 
Nervous.....ugh
 
We're at May 19th and still nothing. I'm freaking out!!! i want an acceptance so bad before memorial day, otherwise I'll probably have to spend my weekend redoing my application
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Good luck to everyone waiting!
 
Good luck to waitlisters- hoping you get some love. Being on the waitlist sucks.

I can kind of be in this group because I am counting down to May 10th = my MCAT results come out. Here's to waiting - its a bitch!
 
I'm glad I'm not the only person waiting (with increasing impatience) for May 15th. I am on two waitlists and hoping for the best.

Go, go, waitlist movement!
 
wooo! brb praying that the people who got into my waitlisted school also got into way better schools...:xf:
 
patel2 said:
wooo! brb praying that the people who got into my waitlisted school also got into way better schools...:xf:
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LOL YES!!!!!!!!!!!

brb praying that my letter of intent means anything at all...
 
all us May 15 waiters must unite!!!!! I might make a thread for this question, but do some waitlists start moving a few days before May 15?
 
gujuDoc said:
My friend, the wait game has just begin. MCAT score waiting is where the torture begins. It only gets worse from here. Trust me when I say that. lol.
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Well, you get some relief when all those secondaries start pouring in after the initial application. They help fill you with hope that the rest of this process will be just as fast. Unfortunately, it's all lies. Waiting tends to be the name of the med school application game.
 
DoctaFuture said:
all us May 15 waiters must unite!!!!! I might make a thread for this question, but do some waitlists start moving a few days before May 15?
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Yes. You see some movement in early May, as people who have multiple acceptances begin dropping from schools.
 
Yea...I have one acceptance but I am still wait-listed at the school I really want to go too =(
 
PsychDO said:
Yes. You see some movement in early May, as people who have multiple acceptances begin dropping from schools.
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ya I would check the school specific threads from last cycle to see if anyone posts about getting accepted off the waitlist prior to May 15th.


late April ALREADY! May 15 is creeping up....
 
does anyone know what the protocol for may 15th is?? do we need to email the schools we are withdrawing on that day? or call? or snail mail? or ahead of may 15th? haha thanks!
 
I need to make a decision between schools by May 15, though I'm on the waitlist at my two top schools. I've crossed off a few from my list, but now it's down to Stony Brook vs. Miami for the class of 2015. I am really hoping to get into Columbia or Brown off the waitlist, in which case this will be a moot point but I need to pick one of the two schools by May 15 and I'm really torn! I would love to practice in NYC in the future but see that students from both schools matched well in the city. I'm not a huge fan of the suburbs and would love to live in Miami. However I am out of state for both and would end up paying about 75K more to go to Miami over the four years.

I know both schools are pretty evenly ranked overall, with Miami being especially strong in opthamology and trauma and having a lot of people match into anaesthesiology. Not too sure about SBU's strengths, other than its reputation for research. I'm pretty sure I want to go into ortho surgery or emergency medicine.

It seems that Miami's curriculum changes have been in place for a while so I'm not too worried about those, but don't know if I should be (?) Has anyone heard anything?

Any advice/thoughts??

Maybe I'll get lucky (haha slim chance) and get off one of my waitlists before even having to decide. :xf:
 
seeing as how may 15th is a sunday, i don't think a phone call will work. just send an e-mail by 11:59pm on may 15 and you should be set. i'm on so many waitlists, i think statistically i should be accepted off of one.
 
gujuDoc said:
I knowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!! Can't believe it.

This hellish process is almost over.

Let's :xf: for the best.

Welcome to the waitlisters club. 😀

Oh and on that note, at a lot of schools people start to drop in late april which we are into, and few people higher onb waitlists get in earlier. I've seen it at USF and UCF. but the good majority hold on til the last min. and give their withdrawals from toehr schools on May 15th so the few days after may 15th and May 15th itself is when the largest amount of movement occurs. Like May 15th to whole of June and then starts slowing down in july. Though periodic movement at many places happens in July and sometimes early august at orientation time when people last min. drop for whatever reason.

but mostly 2nd half of may and june see the greatest amount of movemen.

We just gotta keep praying.
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lol I remember somebody asking a dean about this. The dean was like "yeah, most premeds hold on to all their acceptances right until the may 15 deadline even after they have decided, because the med school acceptances are like trophies to them"

I imagine a percentage genuinely doesn't know right up until the deadline, but I would agree with the dean that many will keep multiple acceptances even after deciding on a school... 'just cuz'
 
Sometimes there are people with 6+ acceptances. When March-April rolls around, can those people look the waitlisted students in the eye and tell them that, no, they truly haven't even narrowed it down to their top 3 choices, so they have to hold their acceptances at all 6+ schools until May 15? I don't think so. For most of those people, it is just inconsiderate to the other applicants to hold that many acceptances this late in the year.
 
i don't agree with that at all, actually. many people i know are still undecided, waiting on scholarship info, etc. it's not rude, it's their acceptances and their decision.

but, anyways, thanks guys for the info about may 15th! 😀
 
patel2 said:
lol I remember somebody asking a dean about this. The dean was like "yeah, most premeds hold on to all their acceptances right until the may 15 deadline even after they have decided, because the med school acceptances are like trophies to them"

I imagine a percentage genuinely doesn't know right up until the deadline, but I would agree with the dean that many will keep multiple acceptances even after deciding on a school... 'just cuz'
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I believe it. It's annoying especially at schools where they will literally not accept anyone else until each person withdraws. I can't look at MDapps anymore.
 
So how fast does the waitlist movement start after May 15th? Like do the schools already have a line up to auto release the next day or do they debate after they see how many spots are open.
Waiting till May 16th as opposed to May30th or latter sounds like so much less stress.

Here's to our top choices on waitlist :xf::xf::xf::xf::xf::xf::xf:
 
dancer89 said:
i don't agree with that at all, actually. many people i know are still undecided, waiting on scholarship info, etc. it's not rude, it's their acceptances and their decision.

but, anyways, thanks guys for the info about may 15th! 😀
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agreed, they earned the acceptance, they get to decide whether to hold onto it til the last minute or not.
 
SoyRicoSuave said:
So how fast does the waitlist movement start after May 15th? Like do the schools already have a line up to auto release the next day or do they debate after they see how many spots are open.
Waiting till May 16th as opposed to May30th or latter sounds like so much less stress.

Here's to our top choices on waitlist :xf::xf::xf::xf::xf::xf::xf:
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varies school by school. At some schools, it is ranked rigidly and they may have a pre-determined list all ready to go depending on spots available. At these schools, it's plausible to hear back May 16.

At some, they will start looking at apps after May 15th, and start informing people at a slower pace, perhaps not even until the next week. All we can do as applicants is write LOIs, send updates, add'l LORs, call the school after may 15 and just let them know we will go if accepted, all of which may or may not help. Things like race, geography, gender, academic background etc. could also be used to cherrypick and create the balance/diversity that the school wants.

Whichever it is, after the initial 'one week rush' where they fill up all the spots in the class, waitlists will move at the rate of one at a time, based on enrolled students withdrawing as they get off other waitlists.
 
gujuDoc said:
well I think a lot of people are waiting for fin aid/scholarship. that is true. But I do think there is also a percentage of people who feel they don't want to let go of acceptances either.
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Withdrawing is like writing a breakup letter. It's painful and you don't want to put the school through the heartbreak and anguish. 😳

/notsrs
/nuttinbut<34yall
 
I am a bit confused. So I got accepted into LSU Shreveport, but I am still on the wait list at LSU New Orleans. I love Shreveport, however I'd rather stay closer to home and go to New Orleans. Ultimately if I don't get into New Orleans I still plan on going to Shreveport.

So if I receive an acceptance after May 15th from New Orleans, but have already committed to Shreveport. Can I still accept New Orleans and withdraw from Shreveport? This may be a silly question, but I'm just not sure how this all works exactly.
 
gujuDoc said:
Yes. So basically it works this way.

May 15th if you have more then one acceptance, you have to drop all but 1 acceptance so that waitlist can start to move along and schools can finalize their incoming class.

However, you are able to hold onto all and any waitlists you possess.

Now say you get off your waitlist school and have your one acceptance from before in hand. At most places they will give u a 1-2 week window to then decide between the school u were accepted off of waitlist from and your previous acceptance. and it goes on like that all summer long. So say you had a 3rd waitlist spot (i.e. at Tulane), got into LSU nola, and declined LSU shrevport for example. Now if this was the case you'd again have 1-2 weeks to choose between LSU nola and tulane.

Some schools like buffalo, however, only give 24 hours to decide if you will accept a position off their waitlist. They aren't supposed to do this and its not recommended but they do.

Good luck.
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Just want to double check. Let's say you're in at School X and WL at School Y and want to go to School Y. After May 15th you're accepted to School Y. Are you suppose to accept/send in the registration (SIR?) form for School Y first and then call/email School X letting them know you declined them? I assume you do this first rather than declining School X and then accepting/filling out the paper work for School Y?
 
gujuDoc said:
what do u mean registration form? The deposit you mean? What little understanding I have it from friends you put ur deposit down for school Y first and then decline school X. If that's what you mean by paperwork, then I suppose your thought process is correct.
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Ah alright, well I would assume there is some form/statement of intent form to fill out either in paper form or online. But the deposit makes sense. Reason why I ask is b/c I keep thinking like "what would happen if you have two acceptances after may 15."
 
You have to narrow it down to 1 acceptance (and however many waitlists) by May 15. If you get a second acceptance *after* may 15, you will have two weeks in which to narrow it down. (That is: a two week period to tell one school "no")
 
you're right 3 weeks doesn't sound too terrible.

however, it took me like an hour to explain to my S.O. and family that just because it'll be May 15th soon, doesn't mean I'll know EXACTLY where I'm going on that date.

I say "May 15th is when the waitlists START to move" and all they hear is "MAY 15TH LET'S TELL THE WHOLE FAMILY THAT OUR BABY WILL KNOW WHERE SHE'S GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL ON THIS EXACT DAY"
 
Medical school application is probably the most bull **** application I will ever fill out in my enter life. But I am glad I am done with it.

Anyways, 5 wait lists here. Lets hope all of us gets in somewhere. 👍
 
jeepy said:
I say "May 15th is when the waitlists START to move" and all they hear is "MAY 15TH LET'S TELL THE WHOLE FAMILY THAT OUR BABY WILL KNOW WHERE SHE'S GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL ON THIS EXACT DAY"
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Precisely the reason why there is a part of me that is not as excited for the 15th as the rest of me. We aren't all going to get the magic email acceptance at 12:01am on May 15th.

Right now I basically know not to expect any news. It's going to be crazy anticipation from May 15th - ???
 
gujuDoc said:
Let me guess wayne state??

Yeah that's what i'm waiting for.
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Ohhh yes. Not to be stalkerish, but you interviewed a couple of days before me. =)

Even if we get waitlisted at Wayne... I met up with my friend who is an M1 there who heard back around the same time last year (May 5) and he was waitlisted (then celebrated cinco de mayo, haha). A couple of days later he was accepted... so it all works out in the end!
 
I feel May 15th is quite far away, BUT when May hits then it should feel faster!
 
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