Definitely. I even read from one of those fin. aid threads that "medical schools won't notify those holding multiple acceptances to withdraw until June." 😱 Speaking of a long wait...🙁
Yes, that is not cool at all!!
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I just consulted the AAMC webpage (
http://www.aamc.org/students/applying/policies/applicants.htmabout) and this is what it said:
AAMC Recommendations for Medical School Applicants
The following recommendations are promulgated by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to ensure that applicants are afforded timely notification of the outcome of their medical school applications and timely access to available first-year positions and that schools are protected from having unfilled positions in their entering classes. These recommendations are being distributed for the information of prospective medical students, their advisors, and personnel at the medical schools to which they have applied.
(skipping to the relevant part)
8. In fairness to other applicants, when an applicant has made a decision, prior to May 15, not to attend a medical school that has made an offer of acceptance, the applicant
promptly withdraw his or her application from that (those) other school(s) by written correspondence delivered by regular or electronic methods.
9. By May 15 of the matriculation year (April 15 for schools whose first day of class is on or before July 30), each applicant who has received an offer of acceptance from more than one school choose the specific school at which the applicant prefers to enroll and withdraw his or her application, by written correspondence delivered by regular or electronic methods, from all other schools from which acceptance offers have been received.
10. Immediately upon enrollment in, or initiation of an orientation program immediately prior to enrollment at, a U.S. or Canadian school, each applicant withdraw his or her application from consideration at all other schools at which he or she remains under consideration.
So, after reading this, I am a little disconcerted about the fact that these are "recommendations" and not "regulations"...
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Well anyway, let's hope that our fellow applicants have sufficient consideration for those of us on the waitlist that they follow the abovementioned "recommendations"!!!
