<p>If the dean of admission of a medical school where you had been WLed emailed you to contact him ASAP around this time of the year, is it a good sign? He also wrote in the email that he will contact you also if you do not call him first.</p>
<p>What I am confused about is: Why didn't the dean call instead of emailing in the first place, if this indeed relates to the admission? I always thought the wait-list movement is done exclusively by phone calls due to its efficiency. Am I not right on this?</p>
<p>It is a little unusual for things to be done via e-mail, but it’s not so crazy that I’m left scratching my head wondering what’s going on. I wonder if the Dean didn’t want to bother the kid or something – graduation was today, after all. :)</p>
<p>In case you are graduating (from one of your schools :)) this year, congratulations! Last year, it appears the students from one of the professional schools were “tentatively” graduated on the commencement day because all of their students still need to do something before graduation (forgot what they were exactly.)</p>
<p>I remember one of the schools would email you, asking whether you want to continue to be on the wait list. This is the reason why I have the impression that emailing has more to do with the wait list than acceptance. Maybe this school wants to ask whether you want to stay on the waitlist for another two months (round 2 of the waitlist?) :(</p>
<p>It’s probably more convenient for the Dean, especially if this is just one of many phone calls that need to be made. Very possible this is an acceptance offer.</p>
<p>I know of several people who were contacted via email after being on wait lists…that said the email did say that they were offering a position in the class.</p>
<p>This might be more of a “if you’re still interested, we have a spot for you” since by now many have made their decisions and have started the process of looking for housing, etc.</p>
<p>^ Thanks! BTW, regarding your question about whether it is a “crapshoot” on another thread, I think what may happen is like this: For many schools (esp. most top ones), if an applicant’s qualifications are above some threshold set by the school, his/her chance of getting into that specific school is still a crapshoot. If the qualifications are not there, the chance may be almost none. This may be true for most applicants, with the exception of some really outstanding ones (Rhodes Scholars, etc.)</p>
<p>It is often the case that person X gets into school A but not school B, while a roughly equally qualified person Y gets into school B but not school A. And school A and school B may be equally competitive schools. Go figure!</p>
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