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Quick question, do we have until midnight tomorrow to narrow down to one school? Or is there a specific time we have to narrow down our acceptances to just 1? Trying to not violate any AAMC rules. :shrug:
 
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Would also like to know the answer.

Do we need to make sure to withdraw by 12 AM EST?
 
Shammyguy3 said:
Why not just decide earlier? Most people who have had multiple acceptances have had plenty of time to narrow it down to 1 school. What's the difference between having to decide by dinner time as opposed to midnight?
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Maybe they are waiting for financial aid still. If not I I implore OP and everyone in OPs position to drop their acceptances so people like me can get off the waitlist 🙁.
 
Shammyguy3 said:
Why not just decide earlier? Most people who have had multiple acceptances have had plenty of time to narrow it down to 1 school. What's the difference between having to decide by dinner time as opposed to midnight?
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I have two financial aid packages coming out tmr from two schools so I want to ensure i have time to think about which to drop.
 
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yakarma11 said:
I have two financial aid packages coming out tmr from two schools so I want to ensure i have time to think about which to drop.
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In which case you will likely have those packages by the end of business day, which is still well before midnight right?
 
Pdazzle11 said:
Maybe they are waiting for financial aid still. If not I I implore OP and everyone in OPs position to drop their acceptances so people like me can get off the waitlist 🙁.
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Just a word on this notion: Just because students drop their acceptances does not necessarily indicate that there will be a wave of waitlist movement. Schools tend to send out far more acceptances than they have seats. This means that if a school has 100 seats and they sent out 150 acceptances that 50 of their students will need to have dropped due to multiple acceptances before they see any waitlist movement.

Edit: Sorry to be a realist and a party pooper....
 
Also the reason i even asked my question in the first place is because on AMCAS when you do choose your medical school, it says on April 30, schools can see where you plan to enroll, so I was confused as to whether we had till end of April 30 to decide or tonight before April 30. I guess its the former. Just putting this here so others know
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
I think he means withdrawing from all but one school which is definitely an AAMC rule.
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The AAMC acknowledges that their "tool" should only be used as an adjunct to direct communication with schools.
They have relinquished any authority they may have once had in this process. In that regard, they no longer have rules, they have suggestions.
 
gyngyn said:
The AAMC acknowledges that their "tool" should only be used as an adjunct to direct communication with schools.
They have relinquished any authority they may have once had in this process.
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Oh yeah I totally agree. But they still require you to withdraw from all but one acceptance by April 30. That the “tool” they have doesn’t actually do anything wrt to that is something else lol.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
Oh yeah I totally agree. But they still require you to withdraw from all but one acceptance by April 30. That the “tool” they have doesn’t actually do anything wrt to that is something else lol.
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They can no longer require anything. Only schools can require.
 
I think that you'll likely only lose your deposit from the school if you take too long. I sincerely doubt your acceptance at school A will be rescinded if you send your withdrawal email at 12:01 am on May 1st. There is no way for School A to know when you withdrew from School B, unless School B told AMCAS who then told School A.
 
Dr.PotatoHead said:
I think that you'll likely only lose your deposit from the school if you take too long. I sincerely doubt your acceptance at school A will be rescinded if you send your withdrawal email at 12:01 am on May 1st.
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Why take that risk? Just decide by tomorrow afternoon at end of business day (around 4-6pm in your time zone) and you dont have to worry about it
 
gyngyn said:
The AAMC acknowledges that their "tool" should only be used as an adjunct to direct communication with schools.
They have relinquished any authority they may have once had in this process. In that regard, they no longer have rules, they have suggestions.
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So if I have acceptances from multiple schools who all have "Commit to Enroll" deadlines sometime in June, am I still required to relinquish all but 1 acceptance tomorrow? Or can I simply choose "Plan to Enroll" at one school until I make a decision?
 
ItsFires said:
So if I have acceptances from multiple schools who all have "Commit to Enroll" deadlines sometime in June, am I still required to relinquish all but 1 acceptance tomorrow? Or can I simply choose "Plan to Enroll" at one school until I make a decision?
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You must only do what your schools require of you.
 
gyngyn said:
You must only do what your schools require of you.
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The email I got this morning made it seem like CTE/PTE was iaw school policy but that I needed to be down to one school per AAMC traffic rules which it cited and linked to.

Is it totally based on the schools now? In the policy it links to, it just says out of respect to other applicants, which makes it seem like it isn’t strictly required by aamc.
 
gyngyn said:
The AAMC acknowledges that their "tool" should only be used as an adjunct to direct communication with schools.
They have relinquished any authority they may have once had in this process. In that regard, they no longer have rules, they have suggestions.
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This is true. I called AMCAS and they said if you do plan to enroll (not commit to enroll) tomorrow, you can actually hold more than 1 acceptance, but to be wary of individual school deadlines and rules they set for the april 30 deadline themselves. Nothing is mandatory rather suggested.
 
yakarma11 said:
This is true. I called AMCAS and they said if you do plan to enroll (not commit to enroll) tomorrow, you can actually hold more than 1 acceptance, but to be wary of individual school deadlines and rules they set for the april 30 deadline themselves. Nothing is mandatory rather suggested.
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Just looked at my own school’s rules, and they allow you to hold one acceptance in addition to theirs after April 30. TIL.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
Just looked at my own school’s rules, and they allow you to hold one acceptance in addition to theirs after April 30. TIL.
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I know. Apparently things have changed this year. But of course, its best for schools to enforce a reduction to 1 acceptance anyways. Plenty of time has been given for us to make decisions (albeit of those without fin. packages yet) and allow earlier waitlist movement.
 
Meanwhile I'm just over here hoping to get a phone call this week...

Good to be busy at work, at least I'm not thinking about it then.

EDIT: selected PTE even though I'm hoping for a WL call. Things are starting to feel real...
 
BunsenBeaker said:
Meanwhile I'm just over here hoping to get a phone call this week...

Good to be busy at work, at least I'm not thinking about it then.
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I’m in the opposite situation. My job is extremely stressful. I’m just hoping to get the call so I can march into my boss’s office and say ADIOS!!
 
@gyngyn Why doesn’t AMCAS track down the applicants who don’t abide by the April 30 deadline? Are they scared?
 
BunsenBeaker said:
Virtual high five to you for hopefully getting to do that this week!!!!!
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I have an insane amount of respect for people who apply multiple cycles. This process is so near unbearable and doing it multiple times in a row is the dictionary definition for emotional strength.

But the reason why I say that for me personally is because medicine is what kept me going when I was going through hard times in life. When I was getting bullied, when I was getting abused at home, and when I was sexually assaulted, my desire to go to medicine was the only thing keeping me happy. It became my support system. It became the foundation for my emotional health. I never realized this until this past year when the rug was pulled out from under me and I realized I may not get into medical school. I also realized how dangerous it was for me to rely on my career for happiness.

It’s been very difficult to stay productive these past 6 months but it’s made me immensely stronger.
 
ClamShell said:
It’s been very difficult to stay productive these past 6 months but it’s made me immensely stronger.
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It will make you a more resilient physician. Good for you for overcoming those challenges and rising above <3
 
gyngyn said:
Today is the first day that we have been able to see that students we have accepted (or waitlisted) have committed to attend elsewhere (or here).
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Any chance you know what is the relative distribution of schools that are dropping people who won’t have selected PTE by tonight versus the schools that won’t drop? 50-50? 60-40? 70-30?
 
ClamShell said:
Any chance you know what is the relative distribution of schools that are dropping people who won’t have selected PTE by tonight versus the schools that won’t drop? 50-50? 60-40? 70-30?
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I doubt any school would be dropping those who have elected not to use the "tool" (unless they made it a requirement beforehand).
 
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gyngyn said:
Today is the first day that we have been able to see that students we have accepted (or waitlisted) have committed to attend elsewhere (or here).
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You can see selections of Plan to Enroll, correct? How do you think that affects your admissions activity in your perspective? Waitlisters may Plan for another school but have greater priority for your school. Some acceptees might plan for your school but have priorities elsewhere.
 
1nside said:
You can see selections of Plan to Enroll, correct? How do you think that affects your admissions activity in your perspective? Waitlisters may Plan for another school but have greater priority for your school. Some acceptees might plan for your school but have priorities elsewhere.
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PTE is unlikely to have much effect at all for waitlist decisions.
 
gyngyn said:
PTE is unlikely to have much effect at all.
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Seems like there is too much uncertainty to use PTE (bc W/Lers and people randomly holding onto more acceptances) but the Commitment data is useful. Unfortunately, those deadlines (I haven't even seen/heard about them from some of my programs) are still way down the road closer to matriculation. Fortunately, even though it seems there are no universal strict requirements to use the tool and drop acceptances (unless I am wrong, because many people say it is a strict universal requirement or if a specific school outlines it definitely), many people are choosing to use the tool to commit and narrow down school lists/withdraw so things can progress toward being settled.
 
If you are accepted to a school on april 30th, off the waitlist, do the same rules apply as if you were accepted prior to april 30th? or does this count as a post april 30th waitlist acceptance(i.e you can have this acceptance and the one you chose on april 30th until they specify the CTE date/orientation day?)
 
gyngyn said:
We can see when accepted and waitlisted students have committed to attend elsewhere or here.
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So if you have chosen not to use the tool on any school, will schools be informed of this decision as well?
 
gyngyn said:
We can see who has chosen not to make any decision using the "tool."
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How do you differentiate between someone who has chosen not to use it and someone who doesn’t have the option to use it because they don’t have an acceptance?
 
gyngyn said:
We can see who has chosen not to make any decision using the "tool."
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This is quite frustrating and confusing. I thought it was required to use the tool. I'm holding out for a school I'm WL at, but I thought I was required at a minimum per AAMC to PTE to one of my acceptances by today. The only guidance I received from the school I PTE'd is that I "should" release any additional acceptances beyond that one, and that if I intend to enroll there, I "should" choose PTE. It doesn't say "it's ok/not ok to not select anything if you're waiting to hear from somewhere else" or "if you don't PTE, you will/will not lose your seat." Out of anxiety that I may end up with zero seats at the end of it all, I PTE'd, but perhaps I didn't have to.
 
BunsenBeaker said:
This is quite frustrating and confusing. I thought it was required to use the tool. I'm holding out for a school I'm WL at, but I thought I was required at a minimum per AAMC to PTE to one of my acceptances by today. The only guidance I received from the school I PTE'd is that I "should" release any additional acceptances beyond that one, and that if I intend to enroll there, I "should" choose PTE. It doesn't say "it's ok/not ok to not select anything if you're waiting to hear from somewhere else" or "if you don't PTE, you will/will not lose your seat." Out of anxiety that I may end up with zero seats at the end of it all, I PTE'd, but perhaps I didn't have to.
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Why did you not want to PTE? How will that harm you?
 
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