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Does anyone know if there is, or has been in the past, any action on the "acceptable range" waitlist before the end of the cycle? The website and interview materials suggest that they can move someone off the list anytime, but I'm wondering if this actually happens. Thanks for any insight.😎
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I am a current TUSOM student and I think no one made it off the list last year and the year before that they took few if any. Your best bet for getting off the list would be to contact Dr. Beckman directly and tell her why you would be a great fit for Tulane and the City of New Orleans.
 
DenimDanCO said:
Does anyone know if there is, or has been in the past, any action on the "acceptable range" waitlist before the end of the cycle? The website and interview materials suggest that they can move someone off the list anytime, but I'm wondering if this actually happens. Thanks for any insight.😎
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This "accpetable range" waitlist, is it post interview? or Pre? I haven't heard much from the good folks in NO and I am starting to worry.

How long after you were complete did they invite you for an interview?
 
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it's post interview. it was about a month after i was complete that i got the interview but that was earlier in the cycle. i've heard they're starting to get pretty behind now, and they get A LOT of apps.
 
I didn't realize how many applications they received until I looked into US News and Report and saw they had somewhere around a 4% acceptance rate. I guess Tulane stands out big time for a lot of students.
 
I am on the acceptable range waitlist as well post-interview, and I was kind of wondering the same thing. I figure that 99% of the waitlist activity will take place later in the cycle (more like May or so), so I am not really expecting to hear anything from them before then. Personally I like to take this view on the matter b/c if I do happen to hear from them sooner, then great. If not... oh well, wasn't really expecting to. Best of luck
 
Does anyone have any insight on what the movement for this year's TUSOM "acceptance range" is anticipated to be? I know Fiji128 said very few students get taken off, but I've heard the opposite as well--that a good percentage get moved off. Tulane is definitely my first choice, but I'm going to have to make a decision come May 15 so I want to start mentally preparing myself if prospects don't look good..

Also, is the waitlist ranked? Or is it one of those things where if you are enthusiastic and show enough interest, you are considered to be bumped off no matter your standing on the list?

Thank you so much..
 
Idk about the acceptance range thing, but wanted to chime in and say hi Shpamme. Im rooting for you!!
 
Awww, Braluk--you're the best!! =)
Thank you.. It'd be SO great to be classmates next year. I'll treat ya to beignets and some oysters if I get in. And we can get Samoa to come too.
Also, I still have to PM you back--I haven't forgotten. Just been in and out of town so I haven't had a chance.. but tomorrow fo shizzle.
 
From my old MSAR (data for 2004-2005 entering class), 520 resident apps, 41 taken; 6082 non-resident apps, 108 taken; 159 international apps, 6 taken. Median acceptance MCAT matched national average exactly (10V, 10PS, 11BS, P), 47% science majors, 99% Baccalaureate degree, 13% grad degree. 808 interviewed for 155 spots that year. Somebody can correct me if they have a more recent MSAR.

So you guys who've been accepted must be studs to finish ahead of over 6,000 applicants.
 
Wizard of Oz said:
From my old MSAR (data for 2004-2005 entering class), 520 resident apps, 41 taken; 6082 non-resident apps, 108 taken; 159 international apps, 6 taken. Median acceptance MCAT matched national average exactly (10V, 10PS, 11BS, P), 47% science majors, 99% Baccalaureate degree, 13% grad degree. 808 interviewed for 155 spots that year. Somebody can correct me if they have a more recent MSAR.

So you guys who've been accepted must be studs to finish ahead of over 6,000 applicants.
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I showed them my xray avatar. I was given an acceptance on the spot :laugh:
 
About the acceptable range thing...you're basically on it until May at which point they reevaluate those people for admission...the only way off it before then is if you somehow plead your case with Dr. Beckman and get your app reevaluated before then (but you better have a great reason--while dr.beckman is amazingly nice she doesnt like BS one bit).
 
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RNP614--thanks for the info.

I too don't want to BS Dr. Beckman. What in your mind would constitute a "compelling reason?" I'm guessing simply wanting to be there over all other schools wouldn't be a compelling enough reason. Are you talking family-related issues for being at Tulane/in New Orleans?
 
I would think continually keeping in contact with Dr. Beckman would be a good non-BS reason. Some people will probably send a generic LOI that could be tailored to any school. I believe you have sent out one already, maybe sending another one through email before May could be helpful. Make yourself known. Granted you may have no family connections, etc. to New Orleans, but perhaps just selling yourself such as, "this is undoubtedly the school of my choice and the school for me. Tulane was the only school I applied to so far away from my home state and for good reason. From researching online I have heard from heresay that the waitlists do not move very much, given that most accepted students will decide to attend Tulane if given an acceptance. I hope that I make it into the small group of students that get moved from the waitlists into an acceptance. Thank you very much for your time and please contact me with any updates!
Sincerely,
etc..etc.. (if you have any artistic/musical talents you may want to mention this too- New Orleans is, after all, the capital of the cultural arts).

Good luck Shpamme!! Ill keep my fingers crossed
 
Samoa and Anyone else's advice helps too...

I interviewed at Tulane at the very end of November. I then received a letter that said I was in the acceptance range. Like others have said, it seems that sdn posts indicate not many people in that range get in where as the letters to us indicated that there was an average chance. I am very worried.

I really loved Tulane; the atmosphere, the city, the people, the staff, everything. I really think that I would enjoy it the most and really fit in. I can't say enough about it. I thought that me getting an interview was a big step but it seems that its not big enough. In addition, I recently had a relative, who is an alumni at Tulane Med, write a letter of rec. for me. What else can I do to express my strong desire to attend medical school at Tulane? I don't want to randomly e-mail Dr. Beckman or if I do, I want it to be the "right" thing. Please let me know what you think.
 
Sned them a letter and tell them just that. Give them concrete reasons why you want to come and why you think you'll be able to handle a city in such flux and succeed in med school at the same time. If you show interest it seems to almost always help here at Tulane, b/c they want people who want to be here. Good luck!
PS It's Mardi Gras time here, so you may want to wait a bit before you send anything. Things tend to get lost about now 😉
 
Awww, thanks for the thought, y'all. However, very likely I'll be on some other coast next year. Not sure which one yet.

Also, I'd wait till March and then call to ask. Let the dust settle a bit on interview season, and give Dr. Beckman time to assess how many acceptances have been given out vs. how many withdrawals she's been getting these last couple of years.

ps. love beignets, but I don't eat shellfish
 
If we get in, and we can collectively convince Samoa to attend, I will treat you ALL to five drinks during the first day of Mardi Gras, and a beignet bag and a cup of hot chocolate every last Thursday of the month.
 
Shpamme said:
If we get in, and we can collectively convince Samoa to attend, I will treat you ALL to five drinks during the first day of Mardi Gras, and a beignet bag and a cup of hot chocolate every last Thursday of the month.
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If I get in and we can all get together I am def. down for buying a round of drinks.

Shpamme - you are applying for the class of 2011, right? You and I can work on this together so hopefully we can BOTH get accepted.
 
I am applying for 2011 =) Whatever info I come across, you guys will be the first people I talk to. 😛 I am just dying here..
 
Good luck for you guys 🙂 Ill continue keeping my fingers crossed and hopefully May 15th will be a good day for the SDN Tulaners
 
Hey guys, Does anyone have any idea how many spots are left in the class? Is the class full already? And any idea how many people have typically been put on the waitlist? I'm guessing from the MSAR stats WizardofOz posted ("808 interviewed for 155 spots that year") that there will be about 400-500 people on the waitlist, but that seems large. Is that right?
 
MSAR numbers will be kind of off compared to previous years. From what I've heard from different faculty here is that Tulane is interviewing something like 200 fewer students than normal....so closer to 500-600 are interviewed. Of that number I have no idea how many will end up getting in but I bet about half of that will get in to fil the now larger class of 170-175.
 
rnp614 said:
MSAR numbers will be kind of off compared to previous years. From what I've heard from different faculty here is that Tulane is interviewing something like 200 fewer students than normal....so closer to 500-600 are interviewed. Of that number I have no idea how many will end up getting in but I bet about half of that will get in to fil the now larger class of 170-175.
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Thanks rnp614! That makes sense especially with decreased staffing post-Katrina. If true that would mean the waitlist is probably about 200 people, maybe 300. Extrapolating from the interview feedback section of SDN (consistent happy green faces) I'm guessing most people accepted are going to want to attend.

Le sigh... So no gumbo for me, and no celebratory trip to Commander's Palace dressed to the nines. =(
 
Shpamme said:
Thanks rnp614! That makes sense especially with decreased staffing post-Katrina. If true that would mean the waitlist is probably about 200 people, maybe 300. Extrapolating from the interview feedback section of SDN (consistent happy green faces) I'm guessing most people accepted are going to want to attend.

Le sigh... So no gumbo for me, and no celebratory trip to Commander's Palace dressed to the nines. =(
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That is good that less people are interviewed, but unlike you I don't imagine that everyone interviewed is put into the acceptance range. There is a "rejected" categoy. So hopefully the waitlist doesnt have as many people on it, and looking in an even brighter light (helps me cope with being on the "acceptance range" list), some people will choose to go to other schools. I haven't lost all hope, but I really would like to find out more information or just get a letter of acceptance 🙂 .
 
Samoa said:
They've admitted a bit more than 2/3 of the total number they expect to be admitting, and we're 7/8 of the way through interview season.
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This is very helpful. Samoa, if you can tell me without having to kill me 🙂
what kind of rejection post-interview numbers, fractions are there in this year of double-07 ?
 
You should bear in mind that once they accept 170 applicants they do not start putting people on a waitlist. They put people on the waitlist if they have accepted the number they want, which for Tulane as a private school is about twice the number of students they want in their class. So expect them to accept about 320 students, maybe more. Last year they accepted about 310 and they just didn't get as many people turning them down as they projected hence the larger class size, which was odd. As Joe Pisano, the former dean of admissions, said to my interview group last year, "Admissions deans get two ulcers every year. The first comes when they accept twice as many people as they want and they think the class is going to be way to big. The second comes around May 15 when everyone starts getting acceptances from and committing to other schools and you think you are not going to fill your class." Last year was an odd exception. They normally get the number they want.
So, they will start pulling people off the acceptance range list once the class of 2011 dips below the 170 number or whatever it may be this year
 
Samoa said:
They've admitted a bit more than 2/3 of the total number they expect to be admitting, and we're 7/8 of the way through interview season.
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And now, some MATH!

500-600 interviewed this year.
7/8 done, therefore 75 interviews to go (using 600 as estimate, hopefully that number is reliable, and it's not still 800...)
2/3 acceptances given (of *total* acceptances) out already
my estimate of total acceptances, is 350 (perhaps liberal...at 2.5, many schools have 2 or greater)
1/3 of 350 = 117 acceptances to go.
2/3= 233 acceptances given out already, which gave an acceptance rate of that first 7/8s a 40% chance.
40% of remaining 75 = another 30 acceptances to go.
Total acceptances by end of interview season, 30+ 233 = 263
MAYBE 87 spots left at end of interview season? 350-263= 87

Competition for those spots?
600 (total interviewed) - 263 (already accepted, and out of the pool) - x (post-interview rejection, all i know that it is theoretically possible at tulane, not sure of what size this ever is)

So 337-x people vying for 87 spots = 1 in 4 chances which could get better or worse depending on reality versus conjecture.

Hmmm.
 
Anythng63213 said:
That is good that less people are interviewed, but unlike you I don't imagine that everyone interviewed is put into the acceptance range. There is a "rejected" categoy. So hopefully the waitlist doesnt have as many people on it, and looking in an even brighter light (helps me cope with being on the "acceptance range" list), some people will choose to go to other schools. I haven't lost all hope, but I really would like to find out more information or just get a letter of acceptance 🙂 .
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Yeah, you're right. An interview doesnt mean acceptable range by any means. I know of people in my program here at Tulane that were rejected straight up post-interview.

As far as the interview number, I was told its closer to 500 than 600 even so if you got a interview and werent rejected I think you have some decent chances. While last year everyone was excited to come here and help in the post-katrina era I think this year the effect will be opposite. Seeing the lack of progress due to state/national leadership may be a deterrant to folks that have been watching. I, however, WANT TO COME BACK! 😀 :luck:
 
RNP614, would you mind posting your stats? -thanks
 
Anythng63213 said:
That is good that less people are interviewed, but unlike you I don't imagine that everyone interviewed is put into the acceptance range. There is a "rejected" categoy. .
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Hehe..my operating theory is that Tulane admissions is composed of people that are too nice to reject people. Hence my glossing over of the rejected category. But I will let you be an optimist for both our sakes. Thank you. =)
 
Hey again shpamme lol looks like i manage to always catch u on here i.e. we both have raging case of addiction
 
Sorry, double post.. hehe Braluk, I am so seriously addicted. Luckily I have been able to work done too, but man.. let's just say my daily situps have fallen to the wayside. =) But I've been having a lot of fun talking to people on the forums too.. I was lucky that the schools I am interested in are populated by really cool fun people.

Samoa, Paw4, Deacondan--THANK YOU SO MUCH for the stats!! I don't know why you're going to all this trouble to help but I really, really appreciate it. Samoa, are you a student adcom member or something? Anwyays.. That will give me something to think about as I drive to lunch. It makes me happy and anxious at the same time. But knowing is always half the battle they say..

rnp614 said:
Seeing the lack of progress due to state/national leadership may be a deterrant to folks that have been watching. I, however, WANT TO COME BACK! 😀 :luck:
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Omg, me too!! It totally irked me that the people have the will to move forward but simple things like street signs are still bent entirely downward. Or for instance, the guy next door to my student host's house had had a dumpster filled--he had basically spent weeks cleaning up his neighborhood. He was ready to go for more, but there was no city service available to haul the first dumpster away for four more weeks. Of course, I am sure there are even more pressing problems in places I didn't get to see. But if they can't even replace street signs, how do they expect to get the bigger problems fixed?!
 
I just remember what it was like to be in your shoes, and the thing that sold me on Tulane was the overwhelming sense I got that the school and its people had nothing to hide, and saw me as a person with hopes and fears rather than as someone trying to game them into accepting me.

As for me, I've been involved in more than my share of administrative stuff at the school, and so I hear things that most other students don't. But even if I could influence the decision on your file, I wouldn't. It's just not right. The advice I give is based on my own experience as an applicant, combined with what I know about the people involved, and a big dose of common sense.

But I'm rooting for all of you, so good luck!
 
Samoa said:
I just remember what it was like to be in your shoes, and the thing that sold me on Tulane was the overwhelming sense I got that the school and its people had nothing to hide, and saw me as a person with hopes and fears rather than as someone trying to game them into accepting me.

As for me, I've been involved in more than my share of administrative stuff at the school, and so I hear things that most other students don't. But even if I could influence the decision on your file, I wouldn't. It's just not right. The advice I give is based on my own experience as an applicant, combined with what I know about the people involved, and a big dose of common sense.

But I'm rooting for all of you, so good luck!
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Thanks Samoa!! Goodness..I hope it didn't come across that I was asking for anything..I honestly wasn't. I was just so confused how you knew all this info! It helps a lot though.. thanks a million.
 
Oh =)
Relieved...
and feeling a little silly.

Thanks for the stats though, I appreciate it.
 
For anyone accepted or waitlisted, how long did it take to receive correspondence post-interview? I interviewed on February 5th and they mentioned that we should receive notice within 2 to 3 weeks. However, Mardi Gras is in full effect, which has me scared that it might be more like 4 to 6 weeks. I just want to have some indication of if I will be in NOLA or Denver (preferably NOLA).
 
Hiya,
I got my waitlist letter about 4 weeks post interview. It came snail mail in a thin envelope. I was on pins and needles too. =) Hope that helps.
Take care!
 
I interviewed at the end of January and am still waiting (over 3 weeks). The holiday, Mardi Gras, and only being able to call on Tuesday/Thursday are killing me...Sigh.

More waiting.
 
Like shpamme, I received my waitlist letter about 3 weeks after the interview. I would imagine that mardi gras break definitely has something to do with the process taking longer. Hopefully they are meaning to send us all acceptances but just have to wait till after the holidays. HA, wishful thinking.
 
pretenda said:
Got my "acceptance range" letter three weeks after the interview
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just for everyone's info, i've had my letter (waitlist/acceptable range/whatever you want to call it) since november....no action. i sent an update letter and got a very positive response from fr. don who forwarded it to dr. beckman and cc'd me. so i'd say don't expect much if anything until may.

for the record though, the posters on this thread are the most considerate and helpful sdners i've seen....says a lot about the type of people who fit at tulane i think. good luck to everyone--if we all make it, we'll have to celebrate.....since he actually got accepted, i nominate braluk to buy first round👍
 
Hey DenimDanCo, Thanks for the info!! I second braluk..
That's so cool that you got a good response from Father Don. I really wanted to meet him when I was there; I'd heard such great things about him. He wrote a couple of articles on spirituality in medicine articles that were presented in one of my science ethics classes in law school--about end of life care, e.t.c. He seems like a really neat guy.
 
DenimDanCO said:
just for everyone's info, i've had my letter (waitlist/acceptable range/whatever you want to call it) since november....no action. i sent an update letter and got a very positive response from fr. don who forwarded it to dr. beckman and cc'd me. so i'd say don't expect much if anything until may.

for the record though, the posters on this thread are the most considerate and helpful sdners i've seen....says a lot about the type of people who fit at tulane i think. good luck to everyone--if we all make it, we'll have to celebrate.....since he actually got accepted, i nominate braluk to buy first round👍
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Haha sureeeeee 👍

Good luck guys, I want our next year class to be full of as many SDNers as possible
 
braluk said:
Haha sureeeeee 👍

Good luck guys, I want our next year class to be full of as many SDNers as possible
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Heh...I totally just pictured a whole front quadrant in that lecture hall they showed us on tour being populated by us...
um..and then I pictured us messaging each other on SDN on our laptops in class, even though we were sitting like right next to each other.
 
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