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Sorry, no overlap.
Not yet. If I see something, I'll post it.
Any Stanford? Thanks so much! 🙂
When I see something, I'll post.
I'll post when I see something.
There's been a lot about poaching. Let me see if I've got it straight... So, generally speaking, most of what's happening right NOW, in the first round of WL movement, is poaching other programs' acceptees, and THEN, next round, it's everyone else?
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It's been a long day. It was either Einstein or Emory. I'll confirm and get back to you tomorrow.
Hi @gyngyn - thank you so much for looking into those for us. I have a bit of a different question - how representative is what you see on SDN (members posting WL acceptances) compared to what you see on your lists? I'm curious as to what your biggest and smallest movers would look like for the last few days compared to the threads. I wouldn't ask you to dig, but have you ever noticed a correlation?
What about UA Tucson?
The first round of withdrawals reduces an excess of acceptances. At some schools, the number dips below the class size and waitlist movement begins. When the most desirable waitlist candidate is holding an acceptance at a school from which they can routinely be poached, poaching will happen. The poached school then may drop to a point at which the number needed to fill is reached and they, in turn begin the process of stealing from schools that are good poaching grounds for them.
I've seen withdrawals, no WL movement.
I'll look tomorrow.
So no general trend with the timing...?
The only thing you can rely on is that traffic day is the beginning of WL movement (where it is going to occur).
The correlation is quite close.
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I'll report on everything tomorrow. I don't recall anything on Tulane today.
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i appreciate you doing this
thank you 😀
+1. No matter how much you read online, the back end of this process does remain somewhat of a mystery, so it's great to hear your insight.
I also appreciate you taking the time to look up this information for everyone.
I was just curious if you could estimate what percentage of each class are made up of "poached" candidates. Is it a significant proportion (50%+) or generally very few (<5%) or somewhere in between? I imagine it varies widely from year to year and school to school but was just wondering what this number could be. Thanks!
Is a school less likely to accept a WL candidate who has zero acceptances elsewhere? My other acceptances are at DO schools, so my MD waitlisted school won't see that.
Why is everyone so obsessed with this "poaching" concept? 😵
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Word. No matter how many dominos have to fall before you get called, at the end of the day the same number of spaces are opening up.
give us some slack, we're all grasping at straws here.
I get it. I guess for me it is what it is and I don't care about how it works, I'll just sit here and wait for the call.
Starting this May, I beleive that DO schools will find out who is accepted where, and people holding multiple accepts have to drop all but one.
Just like AMCAS...imagine that!
Just like AMCAS...imagine that!
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This is incredibly generous of you, many thanks! If you get a moment to look, any movement at Pitt?
Yesteday's WL list movement (that I could see) was at Rush, Rochester, GT, NY Med, UC Berkeley and a bunch at Hofstra. I don't know why I thought I saw Einstein/Emory (the workings of a muddled mind, sorry).
There were were several withdrawals from Pit but about as many stayed (of the ones I could see).
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We can see when AMCAS indicates that an acceptance has been offered. At this point in the cycle that is very likely to be a waitlist offer.
Quite a few withdrawals, but without knowing how many over acceptances they have, we just have to wait until we see waitlist movement to know that they were depleted.
Seems a bit faster to me. That would be normal, though. The recent memory of a near-miss (over-acceptance) makes schools more cautious in a subsequent year.
Later today I'll post anything I see.
Out of curiosity, does the AMCAS report update daily or throughout the day?
?????? Berkeley doesn't have a medical school
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