<p>When an applicant gets an offer of admission by a Medical school how long does he/she really have to accept the offer? Some schools say the response has to come within 2 weeks. If so how can you compare offers that come at different times? Some schools seem to have rolling admission and some don't. If a student gets an offer on October 20th but wants to wait for offers from better colleges that don't do rolling admissions, how are these acceptances normally handled? Does one have to forgo acceptance from the first college that admits them in order to wait for better offers?</p>
<p>Does the 2 week limit apply only to MD/PhD programs?</p>
<p>Medical school admissions aren’t like undergrad admissions. An applicant can hold multiple acceptances (means telling the school “yes” and paying a deposit) until May 14 when they must select just one, commit to that program and withdraw from all other acceptances before May 15th.*</p>
<p>In theory, an applicant could hold a dozen acceptances; in practice, it’'s considered bad manners to hold onto an acceptance if you have no intention of attending that school.</p>
<p>*On May 15th, med schools send a list of acceptees to a national clearinghouse where the lists are compared and any student still holding more than one acceptance will get booted from all accepted programs. A student can remain on waitlists after May15th, but cannot hold a seat at more than 1 school.</p>
<p>A lot of the schools’ deposits are actually refundable too. Since you brought up MD/PhD programs, I’d also like to point out that for MD/PhD programs, the date names are sent to the clearinghouse is May 1st (in contrast to MD only).</p>
<p>with md/phd could you hold multiple acceptances too? at least until may 1 (per above post) or do all md/phd acceptances come out at the same time</p>
<p>You can hold multiple acceptances prior to may 1st. It’s just like the med school process only two weeks earlier.</p>
<p>thanks i<em>wanna</em>be_brown…he’ll be happy with just ONE :)</p>