I know we are all speculating here - but based on my understanding of the process as it was laid out on interview day, ROUGHLY 10% of each interview group is outright accepted while 80% are put on hold and 10% are rejected. As the interview cycle proceeds, people are accepted from the Hold group (there is evidence of this within this thread). There is a score threshold which one must surpass to be outright accepted. As mentioned above, this score is comprised of both interview day performance and grades (FWIW - it's likely not that simple as there must be adequate diversity within the class in multiple senses - gender, experiences, filling the required number of seats with in-state applicants etc.) It was specifically mentioned during my interview day that threshold can be slightly adjusted throughout the year based on how the class is coming together.
Therefore, there are several reasons that they did not admit a chunk of people from the Hold pool at the end of April as they have in previous years. It is possible that more people accepted their acceptance offers to OHSU than in prior years. It is also possible that they accepted more people from Hold throughout the cycle as opposed to the end of April. Each of these scenarios could explain what we've seen this cycle - even within the context of the 10/80/10 we've come to expect. Moral of the story, we will never fully understand the inner workings of the admissions process (unfortunately!) I only hope this discussion is helpful for next year's applicants as they embark along this crazy journey.
