There is no official rule. AAMC can't enforce any rule they have on the schools. The people they want the most/accept early are often those that have multiple "prestigious" acceptance. At this time, they offer you a spot and you have a short amount of time to reply yes or no if no they move on to the next one. I don't know why people always speculate that there is some crazy game they're playing to fill their class...they like you-->accepted
Not true, a friend asked them about her status few days ago and they said the class is filled.
UCLA don't waitlist every single person they interviewed...they already made enough offers to fill their class and so do every other school at this point. But to your point yes, I think in theory they could but no one does that. AAMC and all the applicants would be pissed. Again, they don't care where and how many acceptances you have. It's UCLA for goodness sake. Plenty of people are dying to get into the school.
Schools are required to release an equivalent number of acceptances as the number of seats by March 15th. These decisions are registered with AMCAS. It would be patently obvious if any school attempted to game the system by reversing decisions.
From where did you get that information about "post-interview rejections"? I'm just curious.
Interesting ! thanks for your input. I appreciate it
Yes! Me too
Yeah, bro
Yeah, bro
after you interview, all interviewees are then evaluated (based on interview dates) for acceptance. once you go through the entire evaluation process, you are either accepted or "waitlisted". so by now, if you haven't received an acceptance, then you are in this "waitlist", which contains all the interviewees minus the 150 or so that have been accepted so far. also, im like 99% sure that we don't have a ranked waitlist. everytime an opening comes up, all of those on the waitlist are re-evaluated.
those of you still waiting, hang in there! i didn't hear back until mid-may (and i would say a significant portion of my class were the same), so UCLA definitely has a decent "WL" movement. it is a long and tough process, cause i have classmates who didn't hear back until like early july, but trust me, it'll be worth it
after you interview, all interviewees are then evaluated (based on interview dates) for acceptance. once you go through the entire evaluation process, you are either accepted or "waitlisted". so by now, if you haven't received an acceptance, then you are in this "waitlist", which contains all the interviewees minus the 150 or so that have been accepted so far. also, im like 99% sure that we don't have a ranked waitlist. everytime an opening comes up, all of those on the waitlist are re-evaluated.
those of you still waiting, hang in there! i didn't hear back until mid-may (and i would say a significant portion of my class were the same), so UCLA definitely has a decent "WL" movement. it is a long and tough process, cause i have classmates who didn't hear back until like early july, but trust me, it'll be worth it
July!? Wow that man/woman deserves a medal for waiting that long (assuming he or she has at least one offer already)after you interview, all interviewees are then evaluated (based on interview dates) for acceptance. once you go through the entire evaluation process, you are either accepted or "waitlisted". so by now, if you haven't received an acceptance, then you are in this "waitlist", which contains all the interviewees minus the 150 or so that have been accepted so far. also, im like 99% sure that we don't have a ranked waitlist. everytime an opening comes up, all of those on the waitlist are re-evaluated.
those of you still waiting, hang in there! i didn't hear back until mid-may (and i would say a significant portion of my class were the same), so UCLA definitely has a decent "WL" movement. it is a long and tough process, cause i have classmates who didn't hear back until like early july, but trust me, it'll be worth it
I just called and they're still working on it. They also told me that "we hope the admissions committee will meet this week."
Hey Sparky, did they seem to say that they are will be sending out acceptances by this week?
They specifically said meeting, so I'd assume not sending any out this week, though I suppose it's possible that they do understand the concept of multi-tasking. They also said hoping, so who knows when the next meeting will actually be
Congrats! When was your letter sent?
Hey, thank you! The letter sent status says today's date.
Hey there, thank you it was very much a shock. I was notified via email and then checked my portal to see the letter had been sent.
Yes actually I did. I had sent three updates/LOI's over the course of the cycle the most recent being about 2-3 hours before receiving my acceptance.
Congratulations!!
Were you accepted to any other schools?
Yes I am very fortunate to have had a few acceptances. I committed to another school just two days before getting this news but have two weeks to let Geffen know if I plan to attend.
Thank you so much. I'm very excited about the opportunity. I sent the all three to the admissions email and the last one I also sent directly to Dr. Hall's email.
