Did they send you a letter specifically saying you are on a waitlist, or is it more like when AB tells you you're wait listed as the school hasn't made a decision?
I got waitlisted too this morning. I am disappointed. I felt I was a good applicant and my interview went decent.
Sorry to hear that 🙁 My Guess would be the MCAT is the main thing dragging your ap down. I have a 30-32 MCAT and I didn't even get an interview with RCSI. When I spoke to them last year after my interview they said MCAT is their main metric for ranking applicants ( I was rejected last year after my interview, my MCAT at that time was 27)
Ya they tell you you're on a Waitlist. I wonder how much movement it has.
If I learned anything from trying to get into medschool, it's not to take things like this personally, your stats are great, you're probably great also, if a school doesn't see that it's their loss really. I know it's frustrating; I applied to 30 schools this year before ABP, got rejected from all except Hopkins which interviewed me first before rejecting me 😛. And being from Quebec, the schools don't take letters or MCAT, so if you don't have a stellar GPA (Master's GPA does not count, I know I have one too 😛) there is no chance you will get accepted. But don't take offense by it, at least it's not a complete rejection 🙂
As I said, when I met with them, they told me their main concern is performance on the USMLE, and that the best indicator is MCAT score. They rank candidates via this metric post interview along with interview performance score (which is used more as a cutoff if I understood them correctly).
the system is how it is. I used to think the same -> why shouldn't someone with more world experience / professional experience get a break on grades? well I see know why schools don't agree.
My admissions guy didn't mention anything except that Limerick was sending out interviews in the next two weeks. He only said that my application was under review at all the GEM schools. I also haven't heard a thing from UCD, rejection or otherwise. Little confused to say the least.
How do you know all this?
Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm Canadian and a friend of mine is Canadian as well and she hasn't heard anything from RCSI (I didn't apply there), no interview, waitlist, or rejection. Unless they don't release everything at the same time.
Congrats! I applied for GEM at both schools, and I'm still waiting to hear back.
No not yet. I contacted them in January and they said UCD would send out their first batch of acceptances in late March/ early April. But I might just email them again just to see what's up.
Last year I applied in February to all the schools and received an interview for limerick and bahrain, my sister applied in March with average grades, MCAT<30, but lots of extracurriculars and got accepted at TCD and is there now, so you still have a good chance. Definitely not a waste.
Could be that. Once again, this was what I was told by a friend. I don't know many details. I am assuming that she meant all who applied to North America matched in North America
