<p>Can somebody explain the Oct. 15th thing? Is that a day that schools can let you know if you are accepted? I know that a couople of my daughters interviews pre that date are not rolling, but as far as the other ones, if they don't call you on that date are you denied?</p>
<p>thats the day schools can start notifying students of acceptances. 3 more weeks. so nervous. you arent denied if you dont hear on that day. so schools will start rejecting/waitlisting on that day too</p>
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Schools can let you know. But the majority of schools will likely not.</p>
<p>It is rumored that the majority of NE elite schools will not for most applicants – there are exceptions for highly sought-after and harder-to-secure applicants. On top of my heads, UVA, Tufts, BCM will. Maybe UMich will also (or slightly after that date. It gives out many slots early on.)</p>
<p>Some may give out many offers on/near Oct. 15; some others will give out little by little (e.g. BCM). Some say that it depends on how “badly” these early schools want you. – In this sense, it is not much different than the early action in college admission: If the school thinks they can get you relatively easily at any time, they may have the freedom of accepting you later. If the applicants historically will attend the school even if the school admits them later, it will likely reserve the early admission slots for those applicants who are historically harder for the school to “secure.” For example, a 4.0/32 applicant from UT El Paso may be highly sought after by an OOS private school while a 3.8/36 applicant from UT Austin may be bypassed in the early round as it may be harder for that OOS school to secure the former student who may go back to serve his remote/border community where there is a dire need of doctors. They may still accept the latter student some time later. (I vaguely remember this particular case last year.) It may go the other way also: If you are too much a risk from yield’s point of view, the school may want to wait and see…until they have more information about what other schools you may be (potentially) accepted and/or interviewed – or deal with these kinds of “traditionally more unpredictable” applicants one on one by phone on a much later day.</p>
<p>Also October 15th is the deadline that closes applications for most schools.</p>
<p>Are most interview invitations sent out by October 15th? If you don’t hear anything by then, might you later on? Is there an end date/time for interviews?</p>
<p>In D1’s experience, not all–or even most–of her interview invitations were tendered before Oct 15. (Of course, D1 didn’t get her applications submitted in a timely fashion either…) YMMV. </p>
<p>At our state school, for example, the admissions committee doesn’t even sit to consider RD applicants until the first week of November with the first acceptances coming out mid-December. </p>
<p>Interview invitations can come well into the spring–depending upon the school, although when you receive a late (after March 1) interview invitation it’s almost always for the wait list or alternative admission programs.</p>
<p>CCL, you can brave SDN on an individual school basis to see what progress is being made, each school is different.</p>
<p>Not sure I’m ready for SDN, somemom! 
Thanks so much, everyone~</p>
<p>CCL, don’t post. Just lurk. There are some very informative threads. And whatever you do, don’t try to log-in under your kid’s account to ask a perfectly good question when you are not positive you know her password. The sneaky bastidges at sdn will tell on you when you get it wrong. Each time you get it wrong. Not that I’d know anything about that.</p>
<p>Some call or send acceptance emails right after midnight, but I believe that it was Oct. 16 last year. D’s first one was call from dean of admission, I believe around 1am, she was interviewed there 2 days earlier. Another came in email around 2am, it was her very first interview and she is there now. Many of applicants (and apparently adcoms) do not sleep that night, D. did not until she got these 2 acceptances.
I have been checking her schools on SDN all the time. Sometime you can see good information. I would never post there. Make sure to shield yerlself from psycho damage, though, stay cool.</p>
<p>Great. Thanks…(*too funny)</p>
<p>BTW,
It almost feels that some schools that compete with each other for students (they are known for that), wait untill applicant is accepted at one, then send interview invitation, knowing that applicant is at their level. That is what happened to my D. At the end after she was accepted at both, she was very confused which one to choose and had to participate in Second Look. So, I bet some acceptances might result in more interview invitations.</p>
<p>miami, did schools notify your D of acceptances (by phone or email) over the weekend?</p>
<p>I ran “Day of the Week” calculator on Google. Oct. 16 of last year calculated to be a Sunday. Yes, dean of admissions called around 1am (inverivew was on 13-14th of October) and D. got another acceptance by email around 2am.</p>
<p>My son doesn’t have any interviews before the 15th [sigh] Good luck to everyone~</p>
<p>ps: I wish there were a ‘like’ button here. You guys are too helpful (and funny).</p>
<p>CCL, if you do post on SDN, don’t post using an obvious parent moniker, they don’t take kindly to our type 'round those parts ;)</p>
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Not that somemom would know anything about that. Really. We’re just speculating on what would happen over on sdn. We wouldn’t know. We are way to smart for that. ;)</p>
<p>Is it accurate that most med schools use 10/15 as their application deadline? Or is this just true of the uber elite med schools?</p>
<p>^ Seriously?</p>