Just like you, we at the Admissions Office are counting down the days until we send out the offers! It is an exciting time for us as we see who will finally make up the class of MED 2016. This post is the first in a series of posts about the offers. Today we’ll cover the general process, and later on there will be posts about receiving an offer, being wait-listed, and receiving regrets.
As a reminder, there are 32 spaces available at NMP, SMP and IMP, and 192 available at VFMP. Basically, we go down our list and offer spaces to people based on their site preferences until each site is full. If we get to your name and only your third choice is still available, we’ll offer you your third choice and will most likely put you on the wait-list for your top two choices (please see our Site Selection post for more information on this). If we get to your name and you said No Interest to the site that is still available, we won’t offer you that site, but will put you on the wait-list for your other preferred sites. Your position on the waitlist for your preferred sites is the same in either case.
Out of the 288 spaces, up to 10% (29) can go to out-of-province applicants. Because it’s ‘up to’ 29 spaces, not ‘exactly’ 29 spaces that are reserved for OOP residents, we don’t have a separate waitlist for them and we don’t always replace one OOP with another OOP – we go down the list and fill spots based on the list order, making sure we don’t exceed 29 OOP spaces. There are usually quite a few highly-ranked OOP applicants so OOP declines do tend to be filled by other OOP applicants, but it really depends on how the list falls.
Here’s a quick overview of what will happen when you are notified: you’ll get an email, most likely on May 15. This email will tell you whether you got an offer, were placed on the wait-list, or neither (a.k.a. regrets :(). You can also check your status on the Application Status page in the online application system. Once you know your status you can go from there (more on this later).
We know it would be great to tell you the exact time we are going to email you, but we really don’t know when that will be. We are planning to start notifications on May 15 for sure. The exact time is up in the air because there are a couple of steps we have to complete the day we send the notifications, and these steps can take some time. It’s hard to wait, but we appreciate your patience! One request: please don’t call us and ask if we’ve sent the offers yet. We promise we will email as soon as we can, and you can always check your Application Status page too. If you don’t see anything there it means we haven’t sent you your notification yet.
One last thing: soon, when you go to the Application Status page you will be able to see a new line called Offer Status. It will say something like “There is no offer status for your application.” This is normal. As soon as we send the notification your offer status will be updated.
That’s it for now! Feel free to ask general questions here. If you have a question that applies to your own specific situation, please email us through the online application system instead.
Hello,
Thank you for the update! Would you be able to enlighten us on how we were ranked? Thank you!
Sorry, that information is confidential.
Hey,
If we are placed on a waitlist, will we be told where we rank on the waitlist?
Thanks!
No, sorry, almost all of the waitlist information is confidential – where you rank on it, how long it is, how quickly it’s moving, etc. Because we have four sites our waitlist is quite complex. We have one list of all applicants who are currently waitlisted (‘The Waitlist’), but each site also has its own list, and one applicant may be in a different spot on more than one of those lists, so it’s not as straightforward as saying “You are number 23” like it may be at some other schools. Plus the waitlist is very unpredictable. For all of these reasons we keep the waitlist information to ourselves, although we regret the added anxiety and uncertainty this can cause some applicants.