Post-interview selection process and Overaccepting

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I have many many questions...

1) For some schools (i.e. Davis), is it true that they take a picture of you and select from this pool of pictures post-interview? How does this work? I'd never heard of this before until recently, so I'd like to know more about the selection process after an interview.

2) What is this business about overaccepting??? How does this work? I was reading the Oregon thread, and, apparently, they give 60-something OOS-ers acceptances with only 15-or-so available seats. That's shocking. So, potentially, if you're accepted, you may not even get a seat. And is it ethical to put a deposit down ASAP and accept a seat only to decline later for another school?
 
anotherbusybee said:
I have many many questions...

1) For some schools (i.e. Davis), is it true that they take a picture of you and select from this pool of pictures post-interview? How does this work? I'd never heard of this before until recently, so I'd like to know more about the selection process after an interview.

2) What is this business about overaccepting??? How does this work? I was reading the Oregon thread, and, apparently, they give 60-something OOS-ers acceptances with only 15-or-so available seats. That's shocking. So, potentially, if you're accepted, you may not even get a seat. And is it ethical to put a deposit down ASAP and accept a seat only to decline later for another school?
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UC Davis takes pictures of interviewees at interview, but it is so that the adcom members can hope to match faces with the names when they are selecting the class - they do a lot of interviews and not everyone is great at remembering things based on names/notes and might need faces there to jog memory.

Every school might do the overacceptance thing differently, but I know that if more people accept their offer than anticipated at Davis, they will just have a bigger class than intended rather than turning people down after the fact.
 
nyanko beat me to it, but yeah. They do take your picture at Davis right before the interview, but they don't "select from this pool of pictures post-interview." They only use the pictures so that they can better remember you.

Many schools over accept. That does not mean that you may be accepted and then later declined admission, and it doesn't mean that you need to quickly put down a deposit. They over accept in an attempt to fill the class. Believe it or not, accepting 60 OOS people for 15 OOS spots is not that shocking. Most people who are competitive enough to get into an OOS school are also going to get into their IS school, and almost everyone would pick their IS over an OOS. At the end of the day, if they over accept and all of those people decide to go to that school, they just adjust and have a larger than normal class. Once you're accepted, you're accepted. They don't come back later and say "Nevermind! You're rejected now!"
 
nyanko said:
UC Davis takes pictures of interviewees at interview, but it is so that the adcom members can hope to match faces with the names when they are selecting the class - they do a lot of interviews and not everyone is great at remembering things based on names/notes and might need faces there to jog memory.
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That's what they want you to think, but you know they just want to have a class full of very very good lookin people!
 
This is what western said about over accepting in their acceptance e-mail. I don't think Missouri mentioned anything about it in their letter.

"The CVM routinely issues invitations to more candidates than seats allotted. This is in response to the common practice of applicants applying to multiple institutions. In the unprecedented event that the number of acceptances significantly exceeds the College's resources, confirmation of your seat will be provided after receipt of your written acceptance and deposit on a first come first served basis after April 16, 2012. Therefore, you are encouraged to make your decision and secure your seat in the class as soon as possible."
 
Davis does not have a deposit, but I already sent in my acceptance form. Now if they made a mistake, they'll have to pry that acceptance letter out of my claws lol.
 
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Minnerbelle said:
That's what they want you to think, but you know they just want to have a class full of very very good lookin people!
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:laugh::laugh::laugh: Penn does the same thing... and I haven't met any ugly girls who are attending next year!

OP: AAVMC (are those the right initials?) doesn't allow any schools to retract admissions offers. I think it was Virginia/Maryland who tried that recently...and rules don't allow that anymore. Once an offer has been sent, the school will honor the offer. I'm holding out on sending in an official deposit in the hopes that someone will send me more $$$. Wishful thinking I suppose 👎.
 
SnowyRox said:
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Penn does the same thing... and I haven't met any ugly girls who are attending next year!

OP: AAVMC (are those the right initials?) doesn't allow any schools to retract admissions offers. I think it was Virginia/Maryland who tried that recently...and rules don't allow that anymore. Once an offer has been sent, the school will honor the offer. I'm holding out on sending in an official deposit in the hopes that someone will send me more $$$. Wishful thinking I suppose 👎.
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Good to know!! Thanks for that bit of info! But it is scary to think that a school tried retracting an offer 🙄
 
Minnerbelle said:
That's what they want you to think, but you know they just want to have a class full of very very good lookin people!
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I think you're right, considering that I got accepted. Aside from my good looks, I am socially inept and borderline mentally disabled. 😉
 
nyanko said:
UC Davis takes pictures of interviewees at interview, but it is so that the adcom members can hope to match faces with the names when they are selecting the class - they do a lot of interviews and not everyone is great at remembering things based on names/notes and might need faces there to jog memory.
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Adcoms: Dr. Smith, see, here's her picture...it's this one...I told you, the one with the pink hair, remember?

:laugh:😍
 
hairlessratlvr said:
Nyanko, you're a third year right? I don't think they totallyyyy missed the boat haha
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omg, please tell me you are not at the END of your 3rd year...good lord, where does the time go? :scared:
 
Some schools (Auburn and Florida at least) require a passport photo to be sent in with your supplemental application... hence the reason I was accepted 🙄 bahaha!
Really though, they do. I personally think it's stranger than taking one at the interview. It's like you get beauty screened before they even look at your app.... but that's the south for ya! 😉
In all reality they probably do it for the same reason. My friends suggesting I paint cat whiskers and a nose on my face when I took the passport photo so I could "stand out" :uhno:
 
Undergrads overaccept too... just the nature of the game.
 
Emiloo4 said:
Some schools (Auburn and Florida at least) require a passport photo to be sent in with your supplemental application... hence the reason I was accepted 🙄 bahaha!
Really though, they do. I personally think it's stranger than taking one at the interview. It's like you get beauty screened before they even look at your app.... but that's the south for ya! 😉
In all reality they probably do it for the same reason. My friends suggesting I paint cat whiskers and a nose on my face when I took the passport photo so I could "stand out" :uhno:
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We had to bring a passport sized photo to the VMRCVM interview - I made one where I was dancing and smiling at my wedding (it didn't say passport style 😉).
 
mooshagen said:
Undergrads overaccept too... just the nature of the game.
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They wayyy overaccepted at UGA for undergrad in my class. They didn't expect so many to accept the spot, but apparently on May 1st (last day to send in deposit), a TON of people accepted their seat. We have a live on campus requirement for freshmen and they paid older students to live off campus to find more rooms for the freshmen. We now live everywhere possible (grad student housing, family housing etc).
 
PetPony said:
They wayyy overaccepted at UGA for undergrad in my class. They didn't expect so many to accept the spot, but apparently on May 1st (last day to send in deposit), a TON of people accepted their seat. We have a live on campus requirement for freshmen and they paid older students to live off campus to find more rooms for the freshmen. We now live everywhere possible (grad student housing, family housing etc).
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Same happened at my undergrad. $1000 + 25% off a commuter meal plan to move off campus - heck yeah, I took that offer!

I know KSU had an overacceptance issue a few years back. I feel like another school may have as well in the not so distant past- I seem to recall something about them asking students to defer a year in exchange for in-state tuition.
 
cowgirla said:
Same happened at my undergrad. $1000 + 25% off a commuter meal plan to move off campus - heck yeah, I took that offer!

I know KSU had an overacceptance issue a few years back. I feel like another school may have as well in the not so distant past- I seem to recall something about them asking students to defer a year in exchange for in-state tuition.
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They didn't get nearly as much as that. More like $300, which it wasn't worth it for a lot of them.
 
SpunkyMaddie said:
This is what western said about over accepting in their acceptance e-mail. I don't think Missouri mentioned anything about it in their letter.

"The CVM routinely issues invitations to more candidates than seats allotted. This is in response to the common practice of applicants applying to multiple institutions. In the unprecedented event that the number of acceptances significantly exceeds the College’s resources, confirmation of your seat will be provided after receipt of your written acceptance and deposit on a first come first served basis after April 16, 2012. Therefore, you are encouraged to make your decision and secure your seat in the class as soon as possible."
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This is extremely unfortunate. This goes against the April 15th rule agreed upon by all the schools (April 16th this year because the 15th lands on a Sunday). Every year it seems like some schools just don't want to play by the rules...
 
elefante7 said:
This is extremely unfortunate. This goes against the April 15th rule agreed upon by all the schools (April 16th this year because the 15th lands on a Sunday). Every year it seems like some schools just don't want to play by the rules...
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That's exactly what I was thinking. It almost seems like a ploy to swindle extra deposit money by panicking out their acceptees. Not cool.
 
Minnerbelle said:
That's exactly what I was thinking. It almost seems like a ploy to swindle extra deposit money by panicking out their acceptees. Not cool.
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They sent out the first part I quoted in their original acceptance e-mail on March 15 and then on March 19 they sent out this

"I wanted to take a moment and ask that you review AAVMC’s Acceptance Deadline Policy. It is important to us that you, the candidate, have the opportunity to consider all offers of acceptance and make a decision only after considering those viable offers. Because of this, Western University of Health Sciences has chosen to hold the deposits of candidates until April 17th. Should you decide to withdraw your acceptance at any time between now and close of business on April 16th you may do so. Upon withdrawal we will return your deposit payment to you via U.S. postal mail. After April 16th all deposits become non-refundable and will be processed the next business day."

So I don't think they are trying to get extra money or maybe they got in trouble for the wording of the first one 😕 I'm not sure. I just think it is weird that they would over accept and then if they do have too many people accept their offer that they would turn people away. If I had decided on going to western I would have still been freaking out that I don't definitely have a spot even though I was accepted.
 
SpunkyMaddie said:
They sent out the first part I quoted in their original acceptance e-mail on March 15 and then on March 19 they sent out this

"I wanted to take a moment and ask that you review AAVMC's Acceptance Deadline Policy. It is important to us that you, the candidate, have the opportunity to consider all offers of acceptance and make a decision only after considering those viable offers. Because of this, Western University of Health Sciences has chosen to hold the deposits of candidates until April 17th. Should you decide to withdraw your acceptance at any time between now and close of business on April 16th you may do so. Upon withdrawal we will return your deposit payment to you via U.S. postal mail. After April 16th all deposits become non-refundable and will be processed the next business day."

So I don't think they are trying to get extra money or maybe they got in trouble for the wording of the first one 😕 I'm not sure. I just think it is weird that they would over accept and then if they do have too many people accept their offer that they would turn people away. If I had decided on going to western I would have still been freaking out that I don't definitely have a spot even though I was accepted.
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They over accept by what, 80???
 
TigerWillow said:
They over accept by what, 80???
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I don't know how many they over accept or at what point they would start to turn people away. I know it is highly unlikely that it would happen (that they have to turn people away). I'm just that kind of person that I would start freaking out if it is a possibility because I start thinking it would happen to me. 🙄
 
I know WSU had more DVM students accept than they were prepared for last year...
 
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a waitlist? I understand that if a school really wants certain people more than others, they would send out acceptances. But accepting more students than you are willing to take on just seems immoral. It's giving certain students added incentive to choose their school over another out of state school that may have waitlisted them. That would mean every school is doing this as it would be the only way to compete with other schools.
 
fromthebox said:
Yeah, me too. Just 80 made me go :scared: I got all emo on the BF about being de facto #81 or higher on the wait list. He was not amused.
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This made me giggle.

Hopes that people are scared away by the tuition increase!!!
 
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