University of Florida and University of Arizona are also in similar situations this year, and I've heard that both schools have had to accept a few applicants who were initially rejected after interview because they went through their entire waitlists. Most state schools and a number of private schools that receive any significant amount of state funding (JHU, Tufts, Dartmouth, etc.) are required to produce a certain number of physicians in each year's graduating class (who will hopefully remain in the state to train and/or practice), therefore they must maintain a certain class size by state mandate. So if the waitlist does not provide sufficient applicants to fill the class, a school may have to re-evaluate applicants that were previously rejected. I'm not sure what UNMC is doing about the problem, but this seems to be the first year in a long time that a number of schools have encountered this problem.
