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Well, hello SDNers!
I've been reading this forum for awhile and it seems like there are a lot of people interested in knowing about UCSF and their admission process; so I'm here to offer some of my humble opinions/thoughts.
To tell you a lil bit about myself: I'm going to UCSF this Fall (woohoo!) and I had my interview on January 11th. I got a call from Dr. Alexander (the school's dean) on January 27th-ish to notify me that I've been accepted. Yesterday, Feb 17th, I received all three letters.
First, I think the kiggar dude got it pretty accurate in terms of when the admission committee meets every month to deliver their decisions. During the interview, Ana told me that they will have their ad com meeting on Jan 18 or 19th. She wasn't lying: about a week later after Jan 18th, I got a call from UCSF notifying me that the ad com has decided to offer me a spot in the Class of 2010. =)
I called Ms. Carmen this past week b/c I haven't gotten the 3rd letter from UCSF until yesterday (about a month after I've been accepted!!!). It kinda got me worried b/c the 3rd letter contains all the paperwork pertaining to acceptance procedure (i.e. things, including $, I need to send back to UCSF to officially secure my spot for the Class of 2010). I thought perhaps they gave out more acceptances out than spots available. Ms. Carmen assured me that that's not the case.
So, I believe that there are still few remaining spots open for the Class of 2010 (don't lose hope yet!). They haven't had another ad com meeting since Jan 18th. This is probably the reason why people who had their interviews after Jan 18th have not yet heard back from UCSF. They'll have another ad com meeting soon which confirms Kiggar's assertion that ad com meets in the middle of every month. But I think Kiggar's wrong about the class being full NOW.
What does all of this info tell me about the status of Class of 2010 at UCSF? First, I think the class is not full yet. But I'm pretty sure that it WILL be after the Feb. 19-22nd ad com meeting. Here are my reasons:
UCSF offers 2 interviews per week. In each interview there are about 15 interviewees. So, if you do the math, 2x15 = about 30 candidates are interviewed per week . It's been about a month (4 weeks) since the last ad com meeting so that means that UCSF has had about 120 interviewees. Let's be conservative and say 100..which is still a huge figure.
Now using someone's conservative figure of the Class being 60% full since the January ad com meeting...in a class of about 75 x 0.6 = 45...we know that about 45 spots are taken, leaving only 30 spots available.
So, it seems to me that it's more likely than not that UCSF will be able to fill the remaining 30 spots with the 100-120 eligible candidates interviewed. If you think about it, after the Dec ad com meeting, the class was already 50% full. They started doing their interviews in October of last year.
(To be honest, I think the Class is close to about 80% full b/c like Kiggar said, when I had my interview on 1/11, Ana said that the class was about 50% full. UCSF hasn't heard back from any of the candidates who've got accepted after the January 18th ad com meeting. So to give out that 60% figure means to me that the Class was 60% at that very moment when the question was asked-- before hearing back from January candidates who've got accepted.)
I've heard that UCSF is going to have interviews til March 2nd. And I guess for those people who have interviews after the Feb ad com mtg on 2/19-22 til 3/2, I think it's going to pretty tough b/c more likely than not you'll not be considered for admission until the March ad com meeting which will happen in the middle of March.
Best of luck to y'all.
I've been reading this forum for awhile and it seems like there are a lot of people interested in knowing about UCSF and their admission process; so I'm here to offer some of my humble opinions/thoughts.
To tell you a lil bit about myself: I'm going to UCSF this Fall (woohoo!) and I had my interview on January 11th. I got a call from Dr. Alexander (the school's dean) on January 27th-ish to notify me that I've been accepted. Yesterday, Feb 17th, I received all three letters.
First, I think the kiggar dude got it pretty accurate in terms of when the admission committee meets every month to deliver their decisions. During the interview, Ana told me that they will have their ad com meeting on Jan 18 or 19th. She wasn't lying: about a week later after Jan 18th, I got a call from UCSF notifying me that the ad com has decided to offer me a spot in the Class of 2010. =)
I called Ms. Carmen this past week b/c I haven't gotten the 3rd letter from UCSF until yesterday (about a month after I've been accepted!!!). It kinda got me worried b/c the 3rd letter contains all the paperwork pertaining to acceptance procedure (i.e. things, including $, I need to send back to UCSF to officially secure my spot for the Class of 2010). I thought perhaps they gave out more acceptances out than spots available. Ms. Carmen assured me that that's not the case.
So, I believe that there are still few remaining spots open for the Class of 2010 (don't lose hope yet!). They haven't had another ad com meeting since Jan 18th. This is probably the reason why people who had their interviews after Jan 18th have not yet heard back from UCSF. They'll have another ad com meeting soon which confirms Kiggar's assertion that ad com meets in the middle of every month. But I think Kiggar's wrong about the class being full NOW.
What does all of this info tell me about the status of Class of 2010 at UCSF? First, I think the class is not full yet. But I'm pretty sure that it WILL be after the Feb. 19-22nd ad com meeting. Here are my reasons:
UCSF offers 2 interviews per week. In each interview there are about 15 interviewees. So, if you do the math, 2x15 = about 30 candidates are interviewed per week . It's been about a month (4 weeks) since the last ad com meeting so that means that UCSF has had about 120 interviewees. Let's be conservative and say 100..which is still a huge figure.
Now using someone's conservative figure of the Class being 60% full since the January ad com meeting...in a class of about 75 x 0.6 = 45...we know that about 45 spots are taken, leaving only 30 spots available.
So, it seems to me that it's more likely than not that UCSF will be able to fill the remaining 30 spots with the 100-120 eligible candidates interviewed. If you think about it, after the Dec ad com meeting, the class was already 50% full. They started doing their interviews in October of last year.
(To be honest, I think the Class is close to about 80% full b/c like Kiggar said, when I had my interview on 1/11, Ana said that the class was about 50% full. UCSF hasn't heard back from any of the candidates who've got accepted after the January 18th ad com meeting. So to give out that 60% figure means to me that the Class was 60% at that very moment when the question was asked-- before hearing back from January candidates who've got accepted.)
I've heard that UCSF is going to have interviews til March 2nd. And I guess for those people who have interviews after the Feb ad com mtg on 2/19-22 til 3/2, I think it's going to pretty tough b/c more likely than not you'll not be considered for admission until the March ad com meeting which will happen in the middle of March.
Best of luck to y'all.