What's the closest date to class start that you know of a student being pulled from the waitlist?

[utah34]

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Currently still sitting on the waitlist for my state school. I work as a ED scribe and a few of the physicians I work with have told me some pretty last-minute waitlist stories (I think to give me some hope). One doctor was pulled the week before orientation and a couple others were pulled the weeks leading up.

 

[gyngyn]

Currently still sitting on the waitlist for my state school. I work as a ED scribe and a few of the physicians I work with have told me some pretty last-minute waitlist stories (I think to give me some hope). One doctor was pulled the week before orientation and a couple others were pulled the weeks leading up.

A guy in my class started a month after classes began. He's an ophthalmologist now.
Nowadays, the first week of school is uncommon, but it happens.

 

[utah34]

A guy in my class started a month after classes began. He's an ophthalmologist now.
Nowadays, the first week of school is uncommon, but it happens.

A month after?? How did they make up the lost time?

 

[Toutie]

A month after?? How did they make up the lost time?

That was back in the days of cavemen...the guy probably just had to study extra cave drawings each day to catch up. 😛

 

[COMMANDER CLOWN]

Lots of schools in the MSAR have a "latest date of acceptance notice" in August.

 

[md-2020]

That was back in the days of cavemen...the guy probably just had to study extra cave drawings each day to catch up. 😛

Don't be insensitive, I'm sure @gyngyn is well read on the intricacies of bloodletting and leech application as well.

 

[Goro]

Currently still sitting on the waitlist for my state school. I work as a ED scribe and a few of the physicians I work with have told me some pretty last-minute waitlist stories (I think to give me some hope). One doctor was pulled the week before orientation and a couple others were pulled the weeks leading up.

My school has pulled people off the wait list on Orientation day. We have several waitlisters come to Orientation and they kinda serve like jury alternates.

If they're needed, they matriculate then and there. Most seem to be from our SMP.

 

[PreMedMissteps]

A few days after white coat ceremony

 

[Catalystik]

The second day of orientation.

 

[statlin98]

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[Goro]

I know of several med schools who work by this exact method of wait list pulling!

I know several people who had last minute pulls off wait, just a day or two before orientation or classes. Several years ago I had a call from an advisee who had becoming more and more depressed as the cycle went on and no WL call. She called me one day in the first week of August and literally was screaming that I first assumed she had a breakdown from not getting in. Took me a few minutes to understand she just got a call to be accepted and now had to move out of state and be in class in 72 hours.

A clinical teaching doc I know at an Ivy got called from his state school in Chicago, near where he lived on a Friday to be accepted for class beginning that Monday. This was in the days before cell phones. When he got there and working with the admission director to get all the paperwork in during the first week, he asked how they had decided on him the last minute. They simply went down the wait list calling who was closest to the school and he was the first one who picked up the phone.

 

[DBC03]

Along the same lines (I'm only just now applying, but this could apply to me next summer), do people on WLs start the application process again while waiting through the summer?

 

[deleted407021]

We had people joining up on the second day or orientation.

 

[PreMedMissteps]

I know several people who had last minute pulls off

A clinical teaching doc I know at an Ivy got called from his state school in Chicago, near where he lived on a Friday to be accepted for class beginning that Monday. This was in the days before cell phones. When he got there and working with the admission director to get all the paperwork in during the first week, he asked how they had decided on him the last minute. They simply went down the wait list calling who was closest to the school and he was the first one who picked up the phone.

I know of undergrads who've sort have used this concept to get into REUs. A week or so before the REU starts, they'll contact a REU that they were rejected from, letting them know that they're still available and wanting a spot. Very often they get called because the REU director will suddenly get an open spot, and not wanting to waste time finding someone, will go to that person who just contacted them with availability.

I have no idea if sending a last minute love letter like that would work at a med school when on the WL. Maybe?

 

[PreMedMissteps]

There are lots of threads on letter of intent which would this would fall under. Additionally, most medical schools have either a formal or long standing process on alternates which includes seeing all acceptances of all applicants across all of AMCAS. A letter like this would be getting in on a wing and a prayer (look it up)

I know that there are lots of threads on LOIs. However, I've never seen one that talks about sending an update during, say, towards the end of July when there may be a last minute opening and the adcoms just want to quickly get that seat filled w/o a lot of calling around hoping someone will answer the phone and say, yes.

 

[cactusman]

I know that there are lots of threads on LOIs. However, I've never seen one that talks about sending an update during, say, towards the end of July when there may be a last minute opening and the adcoms just want to quickly get that seat filled w/o a lot of calling around hoping someone will answer the phone and say, yes.

They can see where everyone has been accepted. They can probably call anyone with no acceptance and get them to enroll.

 

[PreMedMissteps]

he asked how they had decided on him the last minute. They simply went down the wait list calling who was closest to the school and he was the first one who picked up the phone.

They can see where everyone has been accepted. They can probably call anyone with no acceptance and get them to enroll.

In theory, yes. But as you see from the first quote, the "winner" was the first one who answered the phone. And they can't see if someone has already started at a DO school.

Sometimes it's just easier to call someone who you know will say yes.

Either way, heads up to those who are still hoping, keep your phones on and near you at all times....

 

[bbbcccppp]

In my day. During the Roosevelt presidency, teddy, we had a man come over after starting school in Italy. Great guy. Went on to surgery in Pittsburgh 2 weeks in.


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[cptnjack]

There was a student that came to our schools orientation the second day, apparently he'd been attending a DO school for the past 2-3 weeks in another state, got a call from my MD uni, dropped everything and came, pretty crazy!

 

[PreMedMissteps]

There was a student that came to our schools orientation the second day, apparently he'd been attending a DO school for the past 2-3 weeks in another state, got a call from my MD uni, dropped everything and came, pretty crazy!

Wow. I wonder if he had loans and how that would all work out? Funded at one school, and then ??

 

[ortnakas]

My class had several get accepted the week leading up to orientation (which doubled as the first week of class), and one who got accepted the last day of that week. I wouldn't count on it, but it happens.

 

[Goro]

Along the same lines (I'm only just now applying, but this could apply to me next summer), do people on WLs start the application process again while waiting through the summer?

If they're smart, they do.

All wait list candidates should consider themselves rejected until they have an accept in hand.

 

[utah34]

If they're smart, they do.

All wait list candidates should consider themselves rejected until they have an accept in hand.

That's exactly where I'm at. Just sent in a bunch of secondaries while still hoping in the back of my head I start class in three weeks.

 

[DBC03]

That's exactly where I'm at. Just sent in a bunch of secondaries while still hoping in the back of my head I start class in three weeks.

So the plan is to get everything in, but then withdraw if you get an acceptance? Good luck! I really hope you get in!

 

[utah34]

So the plan is to get everything in, but then withdraw if you get an acceptance? Good luck! I really hope you get in!

Thanks!!