UCSD- when did you interview and when did you hear back?

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bump! any news?
It's March 15th...so just wondering if anybody heard anything...
Please post! Thanks

~schoolboy
 
well i called today and I am also swimming in the acceptable pool
🙁
has anybody from the acceptable pool receive an acceptance?
 
Bump. Any late January interviewees hear back? 😀 hope...it's a powerful thing😛
 
For those of you who were accepted at UCSD recently, when did you interview? Anyone that interviewed in the past few weeks get an acceptance? I'm trying to figure out how much longer I have to wait.
 
if you call them, sometimes ( only sometimes depending on who you get) they will give you a bit of info here and there like when the meeting is in which your review will occur.
 
Originally posted by DoctorKevin
if you call them, sometimes ( only sometimes depending on who you get) they will give you a bit of info here and there like when the meeting is in which your review will occur.

Thanks for the tip. I only interviewed there last week so I'm sure it's a bit early to call. I'll probably wait another week or so before I harrass them. 😀
 
The turn around time for UCSD can be as early as two weeks. But it's not unusual to wait ~2 months.

It's funny, but it you get an email from UCSD telling you to call them, then you've been accepted. jtn
 
Bump -- anyone that interviewed in March hear anything yet?
 
Can we get out of the pool yet? I'm starting to prune.
 
I interviewed in mid-late january. Called yesterday and they told me that my file hasn't been reviewed by the final committee yet. All these committees....there's bound to be someone who likes me, right? 🙂
 
Originally posted by finnpipette
I interviewed in mid-late january. Called yesterday and they told me that my file hasn't been reviewed by the final committee yet. All these committees....there's bound to be someone who likes me, right? 🙂

I'm pretty sure that at UCSD the general committee recommends that you be either accepted or waitlisted and then it goes to another more exclusive committee which might just be the deans and they make the final approval of the decision. Overall, things took much longer than I thought they would, and I think them taking a long time is generally a good sign.
 
Originally posted by BananaSplit
Can we get out of the pool yet? I'm starting to prune.

Yeah, tell me about it.
 
I interviewed the second week of March and just got my acceptance today. Those of you who interviewed this month, your decisions are coming soon!
 
Originally posted by Alexander99
I interviewed the second week of March and just got my acceptance today. Those of you who interviewed this month, your decisions are coming soon!

How'd you hear? I interviewed on the 18th...time to start getting nervous I guess.
 
Originally posted by mikeyboy
How'd you hear? I interviewed on the 18th...time to start getting nervous I guess.

Well, I got impatient waiting so I called the office on Monday and they said they were going to be making a decision on my life that very day. They said they wouldn't get the file and final decision back until today (Tuesday) so I could call back to find out. You've probably got another week or so since I interviewed earlier than you so hang in there. You could try calling next Monday. Good luck.
 
Originally posted by Alexander99
Well, I got impatient waiting so I called the office on Monday and they said they were going to be making a decision on my life that very day.

A decision on your life huh? Freudian slip perhaps? 😛

Thanks for the info though, I'll try calling Monday to see when they might know.
 
Originally posted by mikeyboy
A decision on your life huh? Freudian slip perhaps? 😛

Thanks for the info though, I'll try calling Monday to see when they might know.

Wow. Didn't even notice that. That's a textbook case of a Freudian slip. But yeah, in fact, that's what they were doing. Is UCSD your top choice if you get in?
 
Originally posted by Alexander99
Wow. Didn't even notice that. That's a textbook case of a Freudian slip. But yeah, in fact, that's what they were doing. Is UCSD your top choice if you get in?

As of right now, yes. I'm on hold for an interview at Davis which might throw things off (only because I have other reasons to stay close to the Bay area), but I'm thinking my chances of an interview there are slim. Even if Davis does come into play, it'd be a toss-up between the two. I know I would be perfectly happy at UCSD, and their combined MD/MS in Bioengineering (my Ugrad major) really intrigues me.
 
Interview March 18th, got a waitlist letter today.

Does anyone know if a letter of intent will help much? I'm on the waitlist at both UCI and UCSD, and I'm not sure where I would rather go (leaning toward SD). But, I only get one letter of intent and I'd like it to count. I really just want to get in somewhere, so if writing a LOI to SD will leave me with still a small chance of getting in, while writing a LOI at UCI would give me a very good chance, I might just take that very good chance. I would probably wait until early May to send it if I do so that I give myself some time to get in somewhere without committing.
 
Originally posted by mikeyboy
Interview March 18th, got a waitlist letter today.

Does anyone know if a letter of intent will help much? I'm on the waitlist at both UCI and UCSD, and I'm not sure where I would rather go (leaning toward SD). But, I only get one letter of intent and I'd like it to count. I really just want to get in somewhere, so if writing a LOI to SD will leave me with still a small chance of getting in, while writing a LOI at UCI would give me a very good chance, I might just take that very good chance. I would probably wait until early May to send it if I do so that I give myself some time to get in somewhere without committing.

The good news is that quite a few people eventually make it off the waitlist at UCSD according to what I've heard. I'm starting to think that LOI's don't count for too much nowadays. For example, I've spoken to several current UCSD students that got in off the waitlist and they said they never sent any updates or letters.

At the same time, I don't see how it can hurt. I stopped sending letters of interest to schools cause the two schools I sent one to rejected me and put me on waitlist respectively. For USC and UCSD where I didn't write a letter, I got in straight up. Maybe they don't appreciate those letters, who knows? In either case, good luck.
 
Originally posted by Alexander99
The good news is that quite a few people eventually make it off the waitlist at UCSD according to what I've heard. I'm starting to think that LOI's don't count for too much nowadays. For example, I've spoken to several current UCSD students that got in off the waitlist and they said they never sent any updates or letters.

At the same time, I don't see how it can hurt. I stopped sending letters of interest to schools cause the two schools I sent one to rejected me and put me on waitlist respectively. For USC and UCSD where I didn't write a letter, I got in straight up. Maybe they don't appreciate those letters, who knows? In either case, good luck.

I wrote two letters to USC telling them that I prefer them over SD. Didn't help I guess.
 
I think after a while, they get so many similar letters that it's easier just to disregard them. I know if I were an adcom, I wouldn't care too much about those letters. I'd be interested in who I think makes a better candidate over who wrote a letter.
 
Originally posted by Alexander99
I think after a while, they get so many similar letters that it's easier just to disregard them. I know if I were an adcom, I wouldn't care too much about those letters. I'd be interested in who I think makes a better candidate over who wrote a letter.

Yep, at this point I'm only sending updates.
 
does anyone know if the acceptable pool is ranked?
 
Originally posted by finnpipette
does anyone know if the acceptable pool is ranked?

The acceptable pool is ranked. You can call and find out if you are in the upper part, middle, or lower part... although it changes weekly of course.

Don't ask me why I know all this stuff, because I have no idea.
 
I must say that "acceptable pool" is my favorite waitlist euphemism. It's right up there with Georgetown and it's "highly select" pool. Regardless, I'm sick of being in the pool but when I called a few months ago to inquire about my relative position in the pool and was told they couldn't say. Very frustrating.
 
Originally posted by SharkFan3
I must say that "acceptable pool" is my favorite waitlist euphemism. It's right up there with Georgetown and it's "highly select" pool. Regardless, I'm sick of being in the pool but when I called a few months ago to inquire about my relative position in the pool and was told they couldn't say. Very frustrating.

SharkFan- talk to Linda Whitson. There's a guy on this board that was told his relative position by her.
 
I just called. They told me that your position in the pool is dynamic because they'll add people in front of you and behind you on the list until the alternate list is set. Once it is set, they'll let you know. If it weren't for looking for housing, I wouldn't mind this so much. 😳
 
Originally posted by finnpipette
I just called. They told me that your position in the pool is dynamic because they'll add people in front of you and behind you on the list until the alternate list is set. Once it is set, they'll let you know. If it weren't for looking for housing, I wouldn't mind this so much. 😳

Haha, well go back through this thread. They told qwertyone...
 
When it comes to waitlists, acceptable pools, etc, I don't understand what the big deal is in the admissions offices not telling you exactly where you rank on the list. Is it perhaps because if they give you a specific number ("you're #13 out of 100"), sometimes they take people out of order and you'll be on to their game? Maybe they don't want you coming back to them and inquiring why your buddy got in off the waitlist and you didn't when he was ranked #20 and you were ranked #13.
 
Originally posted by Alexander99
When it comes to waitlists, acceptable pools, etc, I don't understand what the big deal is in the admissions offices not telling you exactly where you rank on the list. Is it perhaps because if they give you a specific number ("you're #13 out of 100"), sometimes they take people out of order and you'll be on to their game? Maybe they don't want you coming back to them and inquiring why your buddy got in off the waitlist and you didn't when he was ranked #20 and you were ranked #13.

Yeah, if the list is ranked (many aren't strictly ranked) they are not telling you to cover their asses.
 
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