Worth sending an update to schools?

[deleted1115001]

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Hello all,

I have been fortunate to have received several interview invites this cycle, but unfortunately have been waitlisted at my top school while I await other schools' decisions. (No acceptances yet...)
I really am desperate to get into my top choice, partly because all the other schools that I am still waiting for decisions are infamously known to be low-yield schools with low post-II acceptance rates. My top-choice has a pretty decent post-ii acceptance rate of about 50% including all WL movements.

I recently got the decision for naturalization and became a U.S. citizen (I applied as a Green card holder).

As someone who really does not have anything significant left to update schools (already sent an update letter pre-interview invite about grades, publications, etc.), I was wondering if me becoming a U.S. citizen was something worthy to update schools of, that could hopefully get me out of the WL.?

 

[carbonylcarbon]

Aren't green card holders already evaluated identically to citizens?

 

[candbgirl]

Aren't green card holders already evaluated identically to citizens?

I always thought they were. That’s why it’s important not to send update letters too early.

 

[deleted1115001]

Aren't green card holders already evaluated identically to citizens?

Oh really... (sobbing in despair haha)

I always thought they were. That’s why it’s important not to send update letters too early.

My school's pre-med advisor said that it was a huge thing to update, but I guess that others' opinion on her that she isn't the best pre-med advisor is true....
I really wanted an interview invite, so I don't regret sending the update letter back in October, but oh welp...
Just another question would be, do you think that it would be a good idea to reach out to my faculty interviewer who gave me her personal email? She said she really wanted me in and that she'd try her best to do so and that I should stay in touch with her.

 

[candbgirl]

It’s a wonderful thing that you have been sworn in as a US citizen. But I think, and I might be totally wrong, you were already viewed as one with a green card.
Your advisor isn’t the only one who isn’t up on stuff. Are you on the WL at this school you are hoping for or haven't you heard back at all?
I have no experience with contacting an interviewer so I don’t know if that would be helpful. I think a lot of interviewers aren’t in on the finalizing the acceptances. They write the report and hand it off to the “voters”. But maybe again, I’m wrong after all of these years.
Congratulations on your citizenship.