Hey VCU'ers
Congrats to Chop Suey and CRAZYTERP (and others) for getting accepted this round. I am also a 6-8 weeker (found out Dec 9th online), and I decided to dig up some old posts from last year. Here's some of the stuff I found based on the 01/02 application cycle:
- The 6-8 week thing is not a guarantee for an interview. In fact, some ppl got this status in Oct/Nov/Jan and never got the invite. Others received an invite a week later.
-One guy who got the 6-8 week notice decided to call the office, and he received an interview during the phone conversation.
-Some ppl got a 6-8 week notice as late as March even though VCU stopped interviewing in mid-March.
-It seems like there are at least 4 interview time frames: immediate (date published on status web site), within 4 weeks, within 6-8 weeks, and 'can't predict'. These correspond to your priority score.
Stuff about general VCU admission processes:
-Mid-March is the final date for acceptances. VCU gives out 180 acceptances by then (equal to class size). After March 15, as ppl decline acceptances, more acceptances are mailed out as places become available (ppl pulled off the waitlist). After May 15th, the waitlist is split in two: in-state and out-state lists. Whenever an in-stater declines a spot, another in-stater is pulled from the in-state list. The same goes for the out-of-staters - (when o-o-s declines, someone gets pulled from o-o-s waitlist). Does this make sense?
-I think VCU gives out approx. 350 acceptances when all is said and done, so about 170 are accepted between March 15th and the start of class.
-By the end of Jan 2002, VCU accepted approx. 110 ppl. The other 70 were accepted in the last round. Then the waitlist is utilized for rolling acceptances thereafter.
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So hopefully this info helps. Disclaimer: I gleaned this info off of SDN posts -- so the accuracy depends on how knowledgeable posters from last year were (and VCU may have changed some things this year). One poster in particular, AMYB, seems to be very knowledgeable about the VCU process. THANKS AMYB FOR YOUR INSIGHT! And if you are around, pls correct any mistakes I made in this really long post. Thanks.