Thank you! It sounds like things like LOIs aren't very important in waitlist selection - would you generally consider this the case? (Except at Columbia where anecdotally it seems to matter)
It might make a difference if you are are already accepted to a "better" or cheaper school and would prefer the school where you are waitlisted.
Most "updates" have little effect on an outcome in my experience.
Perhaps at some point and at some schools this is true. At this point in the cycle, when committees have largely disbanded (except for a subset, perhaps) it's hard to imagine that more data would have a detectable effect.
The only thing I can tell you about ranked waitlists is what I learned from the LCME: any criteria can be used, but once the list is agreed upon, there can be no deviation.
Our Dean likes MCAT scores. Our Emily old Admissions Dean has a different criteria, one designed to maximize yield, in his opinion. The Adcom doesn't care for his strategy though.
Haven't a clue. At our school it seems to be dependent upon the year. Some years we have more movement than others.
My friend got into Western Michigan Univ. off the waitlist a month ago, but that is an unranked list and they explicitly say it is re-reviewed at every admissions meeting so it is one of the few that keeps looking into it.
Wake has accepted a couple students off the waitlist over the last couple months as seats open up.
At my interview at wake (3/5) they said they probably won't be taking any more students off the waitlist until after April 30th, but they recommend letters of intent if you were waitlisted and are serious about Wake.
I know Tulane does!
You can write a letter of intent if you're waitlisted
I thought a letter of intent could only be taken seriously if you had another acceptance that you are using as leverage
I think you're overthinking it...
I wrote one to my top choice after calling and asking if they accept LOI's. If you are unsure, I'd just call and ask. Wake definitely takes them and I don't think it'd hurt, even if you don't have an acceptance anywhere else. Good luck!
I think after April 1st all schools will be able to see all of your acceptances. Pleasure to meet you folks btw, I have a few more waitlists left too
This has been asked in various threads before, and I've seen 'experts' like Goro say it doesn't really make a difference. They still accept who they like best/who fits the school's mission best.
Ugh I’ve never tried to look at post interview rejection rates, but that doesn’t make sense how one would not reject anybody soon after the interview. Unless they only interview 1.5-2x the size of the matriculating class, that is a lot of extra people hanging on the fringes. It’s not nice to never narrow it down to something realistic.
Same thing happened to me with a DO school back in August, good luck to us both lol
Yeah I agree. Unfortunately, the school without any rejections is a new school (Nova) that stated that they don't know their yield to reject anyone yet... While they're interviewing 6x the class size I think (not sure but ~300 for 50 seats). The other is a state school who used to have a completely different cycle the last several years and has it drastically changed this year where only 1-3ish post interview rejections reported on SDN and not as many acceptances as previous years with tons of wait listed applicants.
Do you know if they are offering government financial aid?
