The fourth round of offers were sent yesterday, with a deadline of Monday at noon. As always, congratulations to the newest members of MED 2016! While the waitlist is still moving, fewer and fewer spaces are available so we anticipate future rounds will be smaller and faster (meaning shorter deadlines). Because of this we are going to stop updating the blog after each round. Unfortunately, although we are getting there, we still aren’t at a place where we can shorten the waitlist quite yet. Not sure when this is going to be possible but we will definitely update the blog when it happens. We’re hoping that it will be by the end of the month.
I understand that you cannot reveal the length or anyone’s position on the wait list. However, I was wondering if we could get some light on what percent of wait listers are typically offered a spot each year. Do the majority of wait listed people get a chance to accept?
When creating the waitlist we do a careful calculation about just how many people we need, knowing that the number of people who accept and decline varies from year to year. We don’t reveal what percentage of our list we’re aiming for, but keep in mind that as a school it is prudent for us to have a small buffer on top of our best guess, just in case we experience a record number of declines. We don’t want to give anyone false hope, but we do want to make sure we have enough people to fill our class. Know that if you are on the waitlist you are very close to a position, but also recognize that it is unlikely that we will offer 100% of you a seat, as much as we would like to.
I am hoping you can give some insight on how site-transfers work. I was accepted off the waitlist to my third-ranked site in the first round of offers. Since then I have seen waitisters from later rounds receive offers to my first and second ranked sites. I assumed (incorrectly) that these positions would first go to people who had been accepted. Could you clarify this for me?
Thanks
When a spot opens up, we go down the waitlist for that site and offer the spot to the highest-ranked applicant, regardless of whether or not that applicant has already gotten an offer. In your case it sounds like there might be some higher-ranked applicants who said “no interest” to your third choice site but did want to go to your first and/or second choice sites, so they are getting offers from the waitlist rather than switching sites. There could also be some out-of-province applicants who didn’t get a spot in the first round due to the limit on the number of out-of-province seats, but with declines are now getting an offer to your first or second choice site.
Do I have to send in my final transcript by June 30th if I am currently still waitlisted? I just got an email saying that you have not received my final transcript yet, however nothing in the email on May 15th mentioned having to send it in.
Yes, applicants on the waitlist are required to submit final transcripts by June 30. This wasn’t mentioned in the May 15th email but was included in the two “Upcoming Offers of Admission” reminder emails sent before May 15, and is on the 2011/2012 Timeline.
Once waitlisted people get rejected, they will no longer have access to the application system…my question is, do they get to know their NAQ and AQ score? How?
You will still have access to the application system and will be able to log in and see your scores. You just won’t have access to your 2011/2012 application PDF.