<p>Popping in with belated congrats to TatinG’s D and to say “Happy New Years!”</p>
<p>Yay!</p>
<p>An acceptance to D2’s top choice school this week. Still waiting on decisions from 2 non-rolling schools that will come in March.</p>
<p>Congrats to wowmom’s D2!</p>
<p>wowmom–so happy for your daughter! and for you, too, of course…</p>
<p>YAHOO WOWM!!!</p>
<p>Is her top choice on your side of the Mississippi or mine???</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>Congratulations WOWmom! what boysx3 said.</p>
<p>Her newest acceptance is on my side of the Mississippi. D2 is happy because there are actual mountains nearby.</p>
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<p>It’s such a great feeling to get your top choice :D, congrats to you and your D. </p>
<p>I’ve got 4 March decisions and 2 that could come at any time. I’ve withdrawn from all others. I’m trying to just put it all out of my mind until March, and then I’ll see what I have. Several of the admins where I interviewed invited me to call them if I wanted to discuss my choices (even if their school was not on the table). I’m almost certain to take them up on the offer. I’ll need all the advice and inside info I can get. :eek:</p>
<p>WowMom, Congrats to your D2!</p>
<p>That’s great news WOWMom, I am sure D2 is smiling!!</p>
<p>Woot woot, happy dance for WOWM D2!</p>
<p>Save the happy dance. What I need now is a money dance.</p>
<p>Because her top choice is also her most expensive choice.</p>
<p>Okay, I need to understand this process better. How do you know if they are rolling decisions? I’m checking out the MSAR, but it doesn’t spell it as rolling.
Do they really wait until a hard-and-fast time as “March 2014” as some say or does that vary? Is there a list of rolling vs non-rolling somewhere?</p>
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<p>Yes, some schools send out ALL their decisions for interviewed applicants on a particular day. For D2’s 2 non-rolling schools–students were told to expect decisions on a specific date in March and not before.</p>
<p>(In theory, this gives everyone interviewed equal consideration for admission since the adcomm doesn’t ‘use up’ class slots as the admission season moves forward.)</p>
<p>The new AMCAS traffic rules which will go into effect next year say that all medical schools should have sent out acceptances equal to or greater than the number of anticipated available seats by March 15.</p>
<p>To my knowledge, there is no one published list of rolling or non-rolling schools probably because many schools do both, depending on where in the admission season it is.</p>
<p>At some schools, highly desirable students may get accepted accepted shortly after interviewing, while the bulk of admission decisions are held until a certain date for everyone else. Or X% of seats are offered to students who interview before a specific date, while students interviewed later go into a ranked general pool and are accepted from that pool on a space available basis. Other schools use rolling admissions (they accept students as they interview them) all through the season until the class is filled. While still other schools say, all decisions will be given out on a specific date.</p>
<p>Every school has its own process. Occasionally, how the school handles it acceptances will be explained on the school’s admission webpages. Applicants will usually (but not always) have the process explained to them during their interview orientation. Another place to check is the school-specific threads at SDN.</p>
<p>Super big congrats, WOWM!</p>
<p>wowmom, how does this new ruling change anything?
Or does the AMCAS simply insist that schools stop playing hard ball?</p>
<p>It’s date change from this year.</p>
<p>This year schools are required to have sent out all acceptances by March 30 and students have until May 15 to choose just one school.</p>
<p>Next year the deadlines are getting moved up by 2 weeks. This puts MD acceptances/decisions on the same schedule as current MD/PhD acceptances/decisions.</p>
<p>AMCAS wanted to move MD/PhD decisions up by 2 weeks, but that meant decision deadlines would be concurrent with federal tax filing deadlines, making it impossible to get a FA estimate to accepted students. </p>
<p>I think the the deadline change is going to make more difficult to have finalize FA packages for all incoming med students. Students may be making attendance decision with only tentative awards. While for most public med schools (which typically only offer federal loans), this won’t be a major issue; however, it may impact private schools which offer institutional and private funding.</p>
<p>I mean I understand why AMCAS is moving up deadlines. It wants to speed up the acceptance process for the applicants on the waitlist and to ensure that all available seats are filled as expeditiously as possible to minimize the number of students accepted at the last minute. But that still doesn’t mean the earlier deadline won’t have its own issues.</p>
<p>My D’s school is one like WOWM described above, you are given a score on interview day, and those above a certain threshhold get a quick acceptance and the rest wait until spring. I think the percentages are around 15% early, 85% later. Luckily, D was in the 15% with a 2 week post interview notification. She (I) hated waiting for the spring notifications which were all 3 of her rejections!</p>
<p>WOWM, I also have a money dance, I’ll do that one for you as well. :-)</p>
<p>You need to teach me the steps! ;)</p>