<p>Most medical schools allow 2-3 weeks for a response per MSAR to their admission offer. If this is from a school at bottom of your list, how would you respond? What if your top school comes around with an offer just after you accepted the 1st one. Are schools required to send out offers within a couple of weeks? How would students be able to compare and choose if they received more than one offer?</p>
<p>Applicants to medical school are allowed to hold multiple offers of admission until May 14th. By no later than May 15th, you must have withdrawn from all acceptances except one. (On or about May 15th, AMCAS does a computerized comparison of accepted student lists and notifies schools if a student holds an active acceptance to more than one school. Students who hold more than one acceptance get auto-rejected from all their schools.)</p>
<p>After the May 15th deadline, you may still remain on waitlists even though you already hold an acceptance. (Waitlists don’t count as acceptances.)</p>
<p>Medical schools routinely over-accept knowingly that some students (how many varies by school) will ultimately end up not attending. Medical schools also understand that students may need to see the FA offers from all their schools (which typically come out around April 30) before making a final decision. </p>
<p>In theory there is no limit how many acceptances you can hold, but good etiquette suggests if you have multiples acceptances, you should formally withdraw from any school you have absolutely no interest in attending ever.</p>
<p>So if you have an acceptance from one school and are waiting to hear back from others—go ahead and accept that first offer. This will require a letter of intent to enroll and paying a deposit.</p>
<p>If you withdraw prior to May 15th, most schools will refund your deposit.</p>
<p>WOWM,</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>WOWmom always chimes in with the straight skinny!</p>