rolling med admissions v not - which schools, not Harvard

[wya2020]

What schools use rolling admissions? I know Harvard does not:

Harvard Medical School does not use “rolling admissions,” so you may file your application any time before midnight on October 22, 2020 without concern that the timing of your submission will affect your chances of acceptance.

SO does applying early not really help with these schools?
What other schools do not use rolling admissions

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[Wolvvs]

Even at Harvard, applying early gives you the best chance at an II. As the season moves on the number of IIs available goes down, so there's still an advantage to applying early. This year, for example, Harvard started sending interviews in late August. So applying in October means the number of IIs remaining is severely limited.

Most schools will leave enough acceptances available for the entire interview season, so even if they're technically rolling there isn't as much of a disadvantage to interviewing later. The real problem is getting an interview in the first place.

 

[WedgeDawg]

All admissions are technically rolling because of how interviews are sent out.

 

[chaim123]

What schools use rolling admissions? I know Harvard does not:

Harvard Medical School does not use “rolling admissions,” so you may file your application any time before midnight on October 22, 2020 without concern that the timing of your submission will affect your chances of acceptance.

SO does applying early not really help with these schools?
What other schools do not use rolling admissions

Rolling just means that decisions are all released on the same day. However, interview invites are sent out on a "rolling" basis. Some schools may even make decisions on a "rolling" basis but not release them all until the end. So still, applying early is best for all schools.

 

[Beans203]

Rolling just means that decisions are all released on the same day. However, interview invites are sent out on a "rolling" basis. Some schools may even make decisions on a "rolling" basis but not release them all until the end. So still, applying early is best for all schools.

Doesn’t rolling mean that decisions are released throughout the cycle? Non-rolling is when all admissions take place on the same day. So if you interviewed at Harvard in September vs December, you’d theoretically be competing for the same number of spots since no offers have gone out. Whereas if you interview at WashU later, they already release some decisions in December, so applicants interviewing after that are competing for a smaller number of seats.

 

[chaim123]

Doesn’t rolling mean that decisions are released throughout the cycle? Non-rolling is when all admissions take place on the same day. So if you interviewed at Harvard in September vs December, you’d theoretically be competing for the same number of spots since no offers have gone out. Whereas if you interview at WashU later, they already release some decisions in December, so applicants interviewing after that are competing for a smaller number of seats.

You have the theory correct. There are two levels to this:

Interviews: Getting an interview in December is harder than in September since there are less spots left in December.

Offers: You are correct that no offers have been communicated. However, with thousands of applications and hundreds of interviews, school may make committee decisions at any time even if those aren't communicated to applicants until a later date. So even though supposedly all the spots are open, maybe committees have voted and spots were given to September-November applicants before your December interview.