Official UCSD Countdown Thread, former "I'm in, UCSD,.."

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Hi all;
I interviewed at UCSD on 03/07 and haven't heard anything yet. Is it true that long waiting means that I have been mostly likely thrown into that a-pool? I called the admission office last week and was told that the committee hadn't looked at my file yet and was advised to call back this coming Tuesday. The committee will meet again this Monday.
So, other SDNers waiting to hear from UCSD, we should call the office on Tues.
Take care,
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hello all you ucsd fans...i'm wondering if people can post their impressions of the school/reasons for being so excited about it. is everyone who is so excited about ucsd hoping to go into academics/research? if not, would you definately go to ucsd over uc irvine? i had thought that i would, even though i am not particularly gung-ho about research which is obviously a strength of ucsd, but after the uci second look i was just really impressed by how happy the uci students were, where as all the ucsd students could say about their quality of life was that it's not THAT bad...i haven't heard from ucsd, so will probably just be placed in the acceptable pool, but suddenly what i thought would be an easy decision has become unclear. any thoughts would be most appreciated!
 
No, SLJ
You should choose UCSD over UCI, so that there will be another available spot at UCI for me. :D
UCI is my first choice, btw.
Take care
 
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slj, that's interesting that you got that impression. at my interview, my 2 tour guides were mad in love with the school, and very very happy. of course, i interviewed in december when most of the students were gone. i guess the ones that stay obviously are the ones that love it.

anyways, good luck with your choice

•••quote:•••Originally posted by slj:
•hello all you ucsd fans...i'm wondering if people can post their impressions of the school/reasons for being so excited about it. is everyone who is so excited about ucsd hoping to go into academics/research? if not, would you definately go to ucsd over uc irvine? i had thought that i would, even though i am not particularly gung-ho about research which is obviously a strength of ucsd, but after the uci second look i was just really impressed by how happy the uci students were, where as all the ucsd students could say about their quality of life was that it's not THAT bad...i haven't heard from ucsd, so will probably just be placed in the acceptable pool, but suddenly what i thought would be an easy decision has become unclear. any thoughts would be most appreciated!•••••
 
LHP,

Not to be a downer, but the consensus seems to be that UCI students are way happier than UCSD students. I heard a lot of negative things about the strees level at UCSD...so if personally left up to me, I'd chose UCI over UCSD in a sec. I am glad you liked the 2nd look weekend, I did too. Maybe I'll see ya at UCI (if we both end up going...)
 
I heard rumour (stress rumour) that UCSD hand-picked its students for tour-guides, and restricted interviewees access to certain students so as not to give a negative impression of the school. There seemed some truth in this because when I was at the interview, our group and the 2 student tourguides sat totally isolated from other students, who were also on lunch break at that time, and none of them came over to say hi or anything, which was totally unlike many other midwest and eastcoast schools. But then again, this could all be a coincidence because i'll be heading to ucsd after all :D
 
I want to wish GOOD LUCK to everyone who is still waiting to hear a post-interview decision from UC San Diego! I hope many of you will receive the notorious e-mail from Dr. Resnik.

I also think some of us who are swimming in the "Acceptable Pool" will be allowed to dry off as accepted students this week as well. I know this because at the last Admissions Committee meeting many in the "Acceptable Pool" were accepted. In fact, I noticed a lot of SDN members posting that they were accepted from the "Acceptable Pool." Well, anyway, GOOD LUCK!
 
Good luck Cal. and UCSD waitlistee outthere!! See ya there!!
 
hey guys,

dont be so disappointed...I wanted to bring a glimmer of hope!

one of my friends is going to withdraw her acceptance and turn in the letter tomorrow!

she was going to do it sooner, but she kind of forgot....I told her so you guys would hear the good news sooner :)

best of luck to all of u
 
slj, check your PM's...
 
hehe!!!!

wow...I'm on a roll...I convinced another friend to withdraw also! hehe :p

so that is two spots that will open up...

wish u the best guys!!!

UCSD rocks!
 
Post May 6th.. anyone news?
 
I just called, and a very weary sounding woman said: "There has been no decision. We hope to get everything done by Wednesday afternoon." She didn't even get to the formality of asking for my name or AMCAS number.

Word to the wise - don't bother them right now!
 
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a weird sounding women? what exactly was weird about her? did she fart between words? :p

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

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•••quote:•••Originally posted by WatchaMaCallit:
•a weird sounding women? what exactly was weird about her? did she fart between words? :p

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

ur (fart) application (fart) is (fart) under (fart fart) consideration :p <img border="0" alt="[Laughy]" title="" src="graemlins/laughy.gif" /> •••••dude watcha, do you need glasses? a WEARY sounding woman.
 
hey, where's UCSD's big $200M donation!??? poor san diego. no love, no love.
 
Poor hero no love no love :p

Watcha's as dyslexic as me :)
 
Watcha- where are you going to school? I'm confused... I thought you were going to GW? UCI?
 
you can now call to find out the results from the committee meeting yesterday, i just did. i got dumped into the acceptable pool like just about everyone else here. i was told that the letters were going out either today or tomorrow. the actual "waitlist" will be developed by the end of the month. usually the bottom half of the acceptable pool is rejected without making it onto the waitlist. the waitlist usually contains about 150-200 people. anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 can get accepted off the waitlist, but it obviously varies from year to year.

i forgot to ask one question. if someone calls in, can you ask whether or not anyone was granted an acceptance from the meeting yesterday? i am curious if they were just deciding between rejections and acceptable pool.
 
So the bottom half of the acceptance list is rejected? So does that mean that 400 people are currently swimming around in the acceptable pool? Does anyone know exactly just how many people are currently in the acceptable pool. Is it another 50% chance now of moving to the waitlist?
 
•••quote:•••Originally posted by Dark Sandbars:
•I just called, and a very weary sounding woman said: "There has been no decision. We hope to get everything done by Wednesday afternoon." She didn't even get to the formality of asking for my name or AMCAS number.

Word to the wise - don't bother them right now!•••••ehem...u've clearly edited ur post from this morning :D no fair...cheater :p
 
oh that's awful! I didn't know that you could still be rejected before making it to waitlist. :( I called and was told that they are not anticipating sending out any more acceptances before May 15 and the waitlist formation. I am not super sure, however, if that included the decisions made from the most recent committee meeting.
 
I called and they told me I had been reviewed by the committee, but they haven't made a final decision, and to try calling on Friday. I guess they are taking extra long this time, since they have to make up for everyone they've been putting off reviewing :rolleyes:
 
I don't think UCSD accepted any more students at their meeting last Mon. They had sent out about 240 acceptances already.
I'll call tomorrow to find out my fate.
 
If anyone calls the Admissions Office regarding a post-interview decision and you find that you have been placed in the "Acceptable Pool," then please try to get as much information as possible from the individual you are talking to. Thanks so much.

As always, good luck to all those still waiting!
 
How do you guys know they gave out 240 acceptances so far? Did someone actually hear this from the admissions office... DIRECTLY?

Because it doesn't make sense. Linda Whitson said that the 240 includes the people from the waitlist... and the waitlist hasn't even been formed yet. The previous post above says that there are 400 ppl in acceptable pool, the bottom half are rejected, therefore 200 are left in the pool...thus forming the waitlist. Out of this 200, 25% - 50% will get accepted, therefore anywhere from 50 - 100 students get off of the list...

It took them from Sept - March (6 months) to give out about 120 acceptances... I find it hard to believe that they gave out an additioal 120 from March - April (2 months)...

Let me know what you guys think...

So how can they have given out 240 acceptances out so far?
 
I think you are right Sammy. The 240+/- is the total # of acceptances for 1 cycle year of admission. I find it hard to believe UCSD would dole out an additional 50-100 acceptances on top of the 240+. But I could be wrong.
 
called in this morning - placed in the acceptable pool. okay, this was my rundown of the one-sided conversation I had with the admissions office (the lady wouldn't even let me talk until "goodbye"!):

-I'm in the acceptable pool
-No more admissions offers will go out at this time (and the class is filled? )
-A waitlist will be comprised in about a month from today (so, by about June 8th)
-People from the acceptable pool will be placed on the waitling list

hmm...that is all i remember. guess it wasn't too helpful. I was running late to class so I didn't pay too much attention to what was being said. they sounded pretty busy, but they tried to be nice about it.

if anyone calls about numbers, please post them up! I don't think we should do that this week though b/c they will probably not be happy with us asking when they are already trying to put everything else together. but if anyone does, thanks in advance!
 
I just called them again, and they said that I am in the acceptable pool, *near the bottom* :( :( . So apparently they already have some kind of ranking for everyone in it. The woman said there about 300 people in the pool, and they will cut that down to 150 for the waitlist. When the waitlist is formed they said they would probably send out more information to everyone on it. Well I have a feeling I won't make it that far, so good luck to the rest of you :) .
 
During my interview, my interviewer explained to me a little bit about the UC San Diego admissions process and how candidates are selected for an interview. He explained that there is a scoring system, which basically awards points for your activities/awards/honors/experiences that you discuss in your AMCAS application (namely, the personal statement) and autobiography. (I think UC San Diego actually substituted the AMCAS application entireley with the UC application.) I'm sure your grades, MCAT score, and letters of recommendation also fit into the scoring system, but my interviewer did not explicitly mention these categories.

With the above said, I'm sure a scoring system is also put into place for the interviews. I speculate, then, the interview scores are combined (by some mathematical formula) with the score that was used to identify who received interviews. Finally, the overall score is used to help the Admissions Committee decide on a final decision for a particular applicant. For those in the "Acceptable Pool," I'm sure the scores of all the applicants helps to decide who gets ranked where in the waitlist. I just could not imagine the Admissions Committee reviewing all the 300 applicants in the "Acceptable Pool" again, but I may be very wrong. I am just trying to provide a rationale for the UCSD admissions process and figure out why Jefe, perhaps, was told where he lies in the "Acceptable Pool." I guess this is just my two cents.

By the way, Jefe, are you sure she said you were in the bottom of the "Acceptable Pool"? I just could not imagine the person on the phone telling you this information, which I hope she did very politely. However, maybe you misheard the person. He/she may have been referring to the location of your application folder within a stack of folders as she was pulling it out to look at. Sorry, Jefe, another crazy hypothesis by me! :) Good luck and don't give up just yet.
 
Thanks for the support California, I wish she meant that it was physically at the bottom of the pile. But, she also said that where I stand, the only chance I have of getting accepted would be late summer. I don't think she would say that unless she knew how I stacked up against everyone else in the acceptable pool. She was nice about it, but it didn't make it any less disappointing.
 
I had a really bad day today and i was so busy to call the Admissions office. :(
But I guess I'm in the pool, too. I am quite a competitive swimmer, btw.
 
It's true that they will tell you a great deal about your status over the phone at UCSD, even if you were rejected. I was rejected post-secondary there and they told me over the phone. I appealed it and got an interview, which they also told me over the phone. This seems to be unusual among medical schools, but it would be great if they all adopted this policy and more quickly ended the agony of waiting.
 
What's up UC San Diego acceptees and swimmers? Does anyone have anything to report on? I hope a lot of us end up at UC San Diego and are able to become good friends. All of you seem to be supportive people, which really shows that the stereotype of UC San Diego students may not be so correct. Of course, a lot of us here haven't quite been accepted yet!

By the way, my Northwestern buddy, Sammy, was correct. As an individual posted on another thread, UC San Diego has only accepted 150 students--not the 250 that was reported by others. The person who posted this <a href="http://forums.studentdoctor.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=008322" target="_blank">information</a> spoke to Yvonne Coleman.

As always, good luck to everyone. I wish you the very best.
 
I called UCSD too and was told that I'm in the acceptable pool. <img border="0" alt="[Pity]" title="" src="graemlins/pity.gif" />
I also asked how many students had been accepted. The lady said "We had to send out enough acceptances to fill our class in March." Duh..
I also asked where I was relatively in the pool. She said "The pool is changing. it's different in the afternoon from it is in the morning". Duh...
I guess there is not much new information.
 
By the way,
How many students showed up at the UCSD second visit thing?
We will kind of get an idea of how many have got the good news from this number.
 
By the way,
How many students showed up at the UCSD second visit thing?
We will kind of get an idea of how many have got the good news from this number.
 
LHP, I was there at the revisit weekend. UCSD has a class of about 122. I estimate that about ~60 people were there. So as you can see, not many people showed up. Don't lose hope yet. A lot of people will rescind their UCSD acceptances come May 15th, and of course, you will hear your acceptance by the end of May. :)
 
I called the office and they did not seem patient at explaining this process to me, but they told me that i will not receive any information until mid-June (not late May nor early June).

Is it because my standing is not good? Or is it the case with everyone here?
 
naw. I called a couple times and asked the same questions and have gotten late May and early June, perhaps even mid-June (I *think*) as well. There wasn't much consistency is what I remembered the most. :wink:
 
I guess the UC San Diego School of Medicine Admissions Office is on some kind of vacation! The waitlist is going to be constructed in the middle of June and no one has been accepted since April. The *waiting* game continues...with no end in sight.

I really hope there is movement from the waitlist/"Acceptable Pool." I feel kind of deceived right now by the Admissions Office. It seems like they are doing nothing right now to facilitate the Admissions Process.
 
they should already have some kind of idea what the wait list looks like since they are already putting in categories like high, middle, and low for the apool. those who call, they tell you what part of the pool you are in right?
 
where are you guys getting the mid-june estimate from? as far as i can tell, yvonne has been very up-front and helpful in terms of answering questions that i've posed. when i asked about the waitlist she said that it would be finalized by the end of may. she also said that i can feel free to email or call linda whitson, who will also try to help me out. i haven't resorted to calling linda yet, but i'm still under the impression that the waitlist will be done in the next 3 weeks. my last conversation with yvonne was last wednesday (if that makes a difference to anyone)...
 
i've got one other thing to add that i'm hoping somebody else can confirm. on may 1 i was told by the admissions office that, "It is true that the class is full and we will have the wait list
made up by the end of the month. May 15th will bring some changes and people would hear at that time."

this leads me to believe that there will be some more acceptances handed out shortly after the 15th. did anybody else hear anything like this?
 
hmm, i just got the mysterious "call dr. resnik email." i really wasn't expecting that.
 
wow dr. momo!!!

congrats, i presume. let us know the results of the phone call...
 
dr. momo you got in!!! congrats!!! I just called SD and they wouldn't tell me where I stand. But they did say that the alternate list will be sent out next week. Also there would be rejections as well :(

Good luck every one and hope everyone here at SDN will pull a Dr. momo :wink:
 
out of curiosity...who is the sender of the email? yvonne? linda whitson?
 
dr. momo, hope you don't mind, i've added you to the official waitlist thread movement. thanks
 
I'm glad to see there is some movement taking place on the waitlist. I'm also quite satisfied to know that by next week I will know my position on the waitlist or whether I have been rejected.
 
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