Post-Acceptance

[osteodoc7]

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So I have recently been accepted to a few medical schools and have had all of them instruct me to pay my first deposit by December 14th to reserve my seat. I decided not to reply with any "thank you's" to any of my acceptance emails for mainly three reasons.
1. Some of the emails were under "do-not-reply"
2. I don't want to flood the admissions with another pety email
3. I rather just respond when I have made my descision prior to the Dec. 14th deadline
Would it be unwise to not contact the schools until I have made my final descision and am ready to pay my deposit?
Also, someone informed me that I should just pay the deposit to every school right now in order to really secure my seat? However, I was under the understanding that my seat was secure regardless until that Dec. 14th deadline.
Anyone ever hear of applicants loosing their acceptances (not due to a lack of paying the deposit by the deadline)?

 

[Coltuna]

Lol they're not going to revoke it because you took too long before the deadline... These are medical school seats; not fantasy football trade requests. You have until December 13 to pay your deposit at one of these schools and notify the others that you won't be attending.

 

[Goro]

So I have recently been accepted to a few medical schools and have had all of them instruct me to pay my first deposit by December 14th to reserve my seat. I decided not to reply with any "thank you's" to any of my acceptance emails for mainly three reasons.
1. Some of the emails were under "do-not-reply"
2. I don't want to flood the admissions with another pety email
3. I rather just respond when I have made my descision prior to the Dec. 14th deadline
Would it be unwise to not contact the schools until I have made my final descision and am ready to pay my deposit?
Also, someone informed me that I should just pay the deposit to every school right now in order to really secure my seat? However, I was under the understanding that my seat was secure regardless until that Dec. 14th deadline.
Anyone ever hear of applicants loosing their acceptances (not due to a lack of paying the deposit by the deadline)?

What is so difficult about his process?

 

[edgerock24]

*Facepalm*

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Anyone ever hear of applicants loosing their acceptances (not due to a lack of paying the deposit by the deadline)?

Well yeah, if you don't pay it by the DEADLINE then you lose your seat.

I never contacted any of the schools that accepted me, although I did send a nice 'thanks but I chose somewhere else' email to a school that I really enjoyed when I let their deadline pass me by.

 

[Harvest Moon]

You need to control your neuroticism before starting med school.

 

[osteodoc7]

^^ I have a few months to work it out.
Can someone explain the whole " we accept 300 kids, but will a matriculate only 150"? Is that to say some schools reserve 300 seats, and then "expect" less than 150 to actually pay their deposit by Dec. 14? Seems odd. What if the school presents itself very well during the interviews, and only 25 students decided not pay their deposit by Dec. 14? Now we have 275 students reserving a seat, when they can only allow 150?
Ease my neurotiscm. I must be misunderstanding the process of extending more offers than seats available.

 

[Coltuna]

^^ I have a few months to work it out.
Can someone explain the whole " we accept 300 kids, but will a matriculate only 150"? Is that to say some schools reserve 300 seats, and then "expect" less than 150 to actually pay their deposit by Dec. 14? Seems odd. What if the school presents itself very well during the interviews, and only 25 students decided not pay their deposit by Dec. 14? Now we have 275 students reserving a seat, when they can only allow 150?
Ease my neurotiscm. I must be misunderstanding the process of extending more offers than seats available.

I may be incorrect here but for the sake of your neuroticism, I'll try to offer some insight. It's usually the new(ish) schools who accept that many people over their seat number because they know that given the choice between them and another (more established) school you may (probably will) take the other acceptance. As far over-accepting, which is very rare, I believe schools offer incentives to defer acceptance 1 year but that's a shot in the dark. Just know that the amount of people accepted to schools isn't some arbitrary number.

 

[osteodoc7]

I may be incorrect here but for the sake of your neuroticism, I'll try to offer some insight. It's usually the new(ish) schools who accept that many people over their seat number because they know that given the choice between them and another (more established) school you may (probably will) take the other acceptance. As far over-accepting, which is very rare, I believe schools offer incentives to defer acceptance 1 year but that's a shot in the dark. Just know that the amount of people accepted to schools isn't some arbitrary number.

How do you think they decide who to defer acceptance? Would they offer the incentive to all applicants? Seems there is the possibility that I will once again have my application revisited to see if admissions would like to risk deferring my acceptance to next year. Or I wonder if they would simply go through the list of those who made their deposit first?

 

[Coltuna]

How do you think they decide who to defer acceptance? Would they offer the incentive to all applicants? Seems there is the possibility that I will once again have my application revisited to see if admissions would like to risk deferring my acceptance to next year. Or I wonder if they would simply go through the list of those who made their deposit first?

Keep in mind that acceptances aren't offered all at once. The school knows how their class number is looking throughout the cycle and offer interviews based on that.

 

[THaramura]

Can I pay deposit and choose another school?

 

[Coltuna]

Can I pay deposit and choose another school?

Yes. For most (all?) DO schools however, you don't get that deposit money back. It isn't uncommon for someone to put down a deposit at a "low tier" school and keep their seat there until they're accepted at a better choice for them later in the cycle. One in the hand...

 

[osteodoc7]

I may be incorrect here but for the sake of your neuroticism, I'll try to offer some insight. It's usually the new(ish) schools who accept that many people over their seat number because they know that given the choice between them and another (more established) school you may (probably will) take the other acceptance. As far over-accepting, which is very rare, I believe schools offer incentives to defer acceptance 1 year but that's a shot in the dark. Just know that the amount of people accepted to schools isn't some arbitrary number.

PANICKING! School forcing me to defer or transfer
Touro-NY eased my neuroticism. Thank you!

 

[Coltuna]

PANICKING! School forcing me to defer or transfer
Touro-NY eased my neuroticism. Thank you!

How on earth did this ease your neuroticism? Know that these situations are very rare. I'm only on the first page of that thread but anxious to see how everything turned out....

 

[de Ribas]

^^ I have a few months to work it out.
Can someone explain the whole " we accept 300 kids, but will a matriculate only 150"? Is that to say some schools reserve 300 seats, and then "expect" less than 150 to actually pay their deposit by Dec. 14? Seems odd. What if the school presents itself very well during the interviews, and only 25 students decided not pay their deposit by Dec. 14? Now we have 275 students reserving a seat, when they can only allow 150?
Ease my neurotiscm. I must be misunderstanding the process of extending more offers than seats available.

accepted means total accept studends over all rolling admissions. they accept a person and if one does not pay deposit that seat is still open and go to the next.

by the time they fill their class they can issue more acceptances than available seats because many do not pay deposits and go to other places. That's why it is rolling admissions.

 

[de Ribas]

I may be incorrect here but for the sake of your neuroticism, I'll try to offer some insight. It's usually the new(ish) schools who accept that many people over their seat number because they know that given the choice between them and another (more established) school you may (probably will) take the other acceptance. As far over-accepting, which is very rare, I believe schools offer incentives to defer acceptance 1 year but that's a shot in the dark. Just know that the amount of people accepted to schools isn't some arbitrary number.

let's say school interviews 20 students on first interview day of the cycle and issues all 20 acceptances. Let's say that 10 pay deposit and 10 do not.

Now u have 20 issued acceptances and only 10 reserved or occupied seats.

that continues until all 150 seats are filled. Even then those who paid deposit can go to other schools or just withdraw and that can open spots for waitlists. They will start pulling people from waitlist until 150 is filled.

simple as that


in the end you actually issued more acceptances than available seats. But all were satisfied. only people on the waitlist can remain unaccepted