Harvardocs-medschool-applicants-list January 2018

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Transition in list, waitlists, letters of inten, t and older topics re-visited

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Dear Applicants, We are repeating some information from the last newsletter, just in case you missed it. We have put that in below our signatures, so as not to be too repetitive for those of you who read every one of these (which we hope is most of you!). 1) Transition for the list. In a couple of weeks, we are going to be transitioning to include announcements for the 2019 cycle. We will still have a few announcements throughout the spring for applicants in the 2018 cycle. For those few of you who have been accepted to the medical school that you plan to attend, you may wish to unsubscribe from this list. For those of you who are still waiting for acceptances (which is almost all of you) and those who may have questions about managing wait lists, traffic rules, etc., please stay on the list and then unsubscribe when you are settled later in the spring. We will flag announcements this spring for the 2018 versus the 2019 cycle. 2) Waitlists. For those of you on waitlists for schools that you hope to attend, it can make sense to send an update every month or so starting in February unless schools have asked you not to or there are limited updates allowed on their portals. Know, however, that the overwhelming majority of the movement on waitlists will take place between the middle of May and the middle of June, though people can get in off waitlists up until the point that they matriculate at another school. We are happy to advise you about waitlist strategies, as are your tutors. However, once you are admitted to any medical school it is Harvard policy that your tutors will not be able to advocate for you further with a medical school for admission off a waitlist or for an interview at another school. We have a number of medical schools visiting this spring and are still adding more. For those of you on waitlists at those schools, you may wish to attend the information sessions to introduce yourselves to those admissions officers. A listing of those visits can be found on the Premed and Health Careers calendar on our website.<http://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/medical-health> 3) Letters of Intent. You do not need to be in a hurry to tell one medical school that if admitted you will attend. At times, this can be useful and appropriate, but for most circumstances it is still too early. You are truly honor bound to go to that school if you tell them you will. There are still interview invitations coming from some schools. Get in touch with OCS or your tutors if you are thinking of sending such a letter. We know this is a tense time for many of you. Good luck as you finish up the cycle. Please be in touch with the premed team at OCS if we can be of help and as always, feel free to share your news as it comes in. With all best wishes, Oona, Emiko, and Ellen Repeated from last list serve post: 1) Application and Acceptance Protocols. Once you have been accepted, many schools will ask you to send in a deposit and/or a written notice that you accept the spot. There are clear "Application and Acceptance Protocols" that govern acceptances (Application and Acceptance Protocols- Applicants<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applica…>; Application and Acceptance Protocols--Admissions Officers<https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applica…>). As long as you are holding only one acceptance on April 30th, all of the deposits you have paid will be returned, except for the one at the final school that you plan to attend. As you get a first acceptance, you should withdraw in writing from schools where you do not intend to matriculate. Many of you may need and want to hold on to multiple acceptances until you hear about financial aid offers. That is completely appropriate. For many schools, however, you might know that you will attend school A over school B regardless of what the financial aid package looks like and in that case it is appropriate to withdraw from school B once you have been accepted to school A. Once you have an acceptance to any medical school, neither OCS nor your House will be able to advocate on your behalf at any school, but your House tutors and OCS premed advisers are both happy to discuss your choices with you at any point. 2) Acceptances into MD/PhD programs. The same rules apply for applicants accepted into MSTP slots. However, since you will know at the outset that you will be fully funded, it is usually not necessary for you to hold multiple acceptances for any period of time. At times, you may feel unable to decide without a re-visit or without further information about your research options. That may mean that some applicants need to hold spots at two or three programs for a period of time. If you are lucky enough to have more acceptances than that and while you are technically allowed to hold all offers until April 30th, we would urge you to go ahead and narrow down the spots you are holding so that you can free up spots for other applicants. 3) Zero to three interviews. If you have had zero to three interview invitations (or if you have had, for example four invitations, but have been rejected at one or two of those schools), then please get in touch with us and with your House tutors if you have not done so already. There may or may not be anything further to be done depending on what you have done already, but we would like to hear from you and help you strategize. Lots of people who were in your situation last January are several months into their first year of medical school at this point.

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