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can someone please explain what "rolling admissions" is!!! thanks
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schools that accept students all throughout the application cycle. non-rolling schools accept students all at the same time.
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when you say all at the same time, do you mean ONLY during the process? and for the ones that accept all throughout the cycle, do you mean anytime before, during, and after the process? sorry just trying to make sure I totally understand!
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i dont quite understand your questions. each school has an application cycle that starts and ends at certain times each year. usually application cycles begin in the summer and end in the spring. during an application cycle, a rolling school can accept students at any time. a non-rolling school sends acceptance notifications only towards the end of their application cycle.
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you all keep saying anytime, well what is the scope of anytime? does anytime mean before, during, and after the cycle? like if I apply in 04 for 05 will the school still send an acceptance after 05? ( you said anytime!)
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Anytime, in this context, means anytime during this application cycle. That is, from the moment secondaries start going in to the first day of class.
In rolling admissions it is advantageous to be an early interviewee since they'll have more spots open to give acceptances from. Even if you only get waitlisted at these schools earlier applicants tend to be higher up on the waitlist (since they have more good slots on their waitlist available) and, thus, eventually accepted.
In non-rolling admissions they interview people and then meet at certain times of the year to make decisions on all the applicants up to that point. So at these schools it is less important exactly when you interview. For example, Vermont has already started interviewing people but will only start making decisions in December. So all the people who interview between the beginning of the process and then are on equal footing as far as interview time is concerned. The admissions committee doesn't meet again until February, so the people who interview there between December and February are also on equal footing.
In rolling admissions it is advantageous to be an early interviewee since they'll have more spots open to give acceptances from. Even if you only get waitlisted at these schools earlier applicants tend to be higher up on the waitlist (since they have more good slots on their waitlist available) and, thus, eventually accepted.
In non-rolling admissions they interview people and then meet at certain times of the year to make decisions on all the applicants up to that point. So at these schools it is less important exactly when you interview. For example, Vermont has already started interviewing people but will only start making decisions in December. So all the people who interview between the beginning of the process and then are on equal footing as far as interview time is concerned. The admissions committee doesn't meet again until February, so the people who interview there between December and February are also on equal footing.
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sistahnik said:
Ok, lets take two examples.
Rolling Admissions, Baylor. They start interviewing in September and per AAMC rules can't start notifying applicants of acceptance until 15 October. Starting 15 October, they are free to fill up their class as quikly or as slow as possible. So, 15 Oct, they may give out 10 acceptances and 10 every week from there on out. Just depends how the admissions committee decides to alot acceptances. Schools have given out enough to fill their class by 15 May (and a lot of times way before that). If people start to bail, then they take people off the waitlist to keep the class full. This can happen up to first day of class.
Non-Rolling Admissions, Harvard. They interivew the applicants from Oct-lets say February. Since they are on-rolling, they send out their acceptances in one big batch (each school has own specific date). Now, whether or not they start "filling" the class before then or just take the top 150 ranked applicants and offer them spots on that day, I don't know. Hope this helps.
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runner1979 said:
Can anyone add to what runner has said about non-rolling admissions at Harvard? i.e. do they start "filling" the class right away or do they wait and take the top 150 at the end of the cycle?
bostonabe said:
My understanding is that they take the top 150 they have seen during the interview period. "Top Schools" tend to be non-rolling, because it lets them search over the entire applicant pool before deciding who to admit. Also, they can be confident that people they admit will matriculate. That is, someone admitted to a state school with rolling admissions would probably ditch that state school for the chance to attend a "top school" like Harvard.
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BobA said:
To some extent, I disagree with this. I have wondered how many acceptances schools send out per seat, but from the data people have posted on SDN and that schools have provided themselves, the ratio of acceptances/class slots is almost always around 2.5. From what I've seen this is pretty constant over the range of schools. For certain private schools that receive a lot of applicants who receive multiple acceptances (like NYMC) I would guess this is close to or over 3. But Harvard acceptees are likely to have received acceptances at other prestigious schools, so I would guess (or perhaps someone has the data) this ratio is around 2 still, not the 1.2 or 1.5 we might expect.
