Rolling vs non-rolling admissions

[Engrailed]

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Is it safe to assume that except for a handful of top tier schools and maybe a few others, all med schools interview/accept on a rolling basis?
I could not find a list of rolling-admissions schools and those that tried to get a list going said, non-rolling is the exception to the rule.

Can others elaborate? Thank you

 

[Cornfed101]

I know Harvard and Utah are non rolling, not sure of any others

 

[GlioblastomaM]

The only substantive difference between rolling and non-rolling schools is the timing of the notification of the decision to the applicant.
Screening, interviewing and decision-making all proceed along the same timeline.

Said in a similar thread last year.

 

[Engrailed]

Said in a similar thread last year.

But what are notable examples of schools that start sending out decisions super early like in the fall? vs spring

(btw, LOVE your username and ... (are those neural stem cells?))

 

[GlioblastomaM]

Thanks! I believe they are MSC that will generally differentiate into astrocytes, but I may be wrong.

If I'm understanding you correctly, the earliest date a school can release an acceptance, barring EDP, is 10/15.

So what we're interested in are the schools that release acceptances later than 10/15, which we can base on MSAR data. Even then, that isn't subject to be precisely correct—the school I interviewed at told us three times decisions will be released at the end of October in spite of noting on MSAR the 10/15 date.

Hence, the best way we can answer this question without an explicit survey is either scouring previous years' threads for the earliest acceptance date; or approximating it from MSAR data.

For my schools, these are ones that deviate from the generic 10/15 "deadline" per MSAR:

• SUNY Downstate (Feb.)
• Columbia (March)
• BU (Jan.)
• Icahn (Nov.)
• Penn (March)
• Harvard (March)
• Cornell (March); their 2° explicitly stated a non-rolling process
• Vandy (Dec.)