Sidney Kimmel Medical College Waitlist 2020-2021 (2024)

MisterMukwa said:

HPWL as well. Curious how many actually get placed on the regular waitlist

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One student on SDN stated that they have been on both in subsequent cycles. However, in my opinion, "High Priority" is mostly lip service to make us feel like we have a shot still.

Copying over my comment made in SKMC forum:

Was put on HPWL last Wednesday. Interviewed 12/16. Went through last years SDN SKMC forum, and after reading it, I'm pretty conflicted. It seems that if you get an II, post-II decisions are either accepted, HPWL (high priority WL) or alternate WL. I haven't read of anyone getting a post-II rejection, but only one of the two WLs. Furthermore, they take people from HPWL first and then from the alternate WL (which only a few people seemed to be pulled from, if at all).

I've read that anywhere from 30% to as high as 70% of ppl in the HPWL are pulled into the upcoming class. However, if you take a look at SKMC's MSAR, typical number of WL positions per cycle is ~370. Number of acceptance offers granted to applicants on the waitlist: 40. That percentage is ~11%, clearly much lower than what people have posted in earlier forums. Couple of things about this: 1.) MSAR doesn't differentiate HPWL vs. alternate WL for total number of WL positions. One would think that high priority means that the HPWL group is 'significantly' smaller than the alternate WL group. However, from reading the past forums, have only seen 1-2 people (vs like 20-30) saying they got alternate WL rather than HPWL. 2.) Always take MSAR with a grain of salt, especially with statistics like these.

I'm a pragmatist so while these stats aren't entirely comforting, nevertheless, don't give up. I'm sure as hell not. Doing big things this year and will be diligent about keeping SKMC up-to-date. Planning on sending updates and/or letters of interest about every 1.5 months. If you have no value to offer them in these letters, don't send them. Instead, find something to wow them. You got time. No excuses. Going from last years forum, it seems that the earliest to be removed from HPWL is end of April/early May. In fact, some people noted that they got their acceptance end of June. Others just never heard back until SKMC noted that the class was full = silent rejection. So, for people in my position, it's now a waiting game and we gotta fight to get in, no other way around it. Best of luck, and sincerely rooting for everyone on here.

OOS, 520, 3.87, ORM, HPWL

Also wondering what percentage of waitlisted students are on the HPWL, based on the poll I'm guessing most of them haha

DontSugarCoatIt said:

I have sent update letters to Dr. Callahan with a short reply saying "thank you..." She's probably being nice. However, I would encourage letters of interest/intent/update. I have heard they like to be courted in that way. But I doubt the reply to that email means much.

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did you send the update through the portal or directly to her email? I couldn't find a submission page on the portal

auntjuju said:

did you send the update through the portal or directly to her email? I couldn't find a submission page on the portal

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Send it to Dr. Callahan's email and she'll update your file.

TabbyTuxy said:

Withdrawing my A here. Best of luck to all you WL'ers, I know I was obsessed with Jeff and hope my seat makes someone as excited as I was for the opportunity.

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Thank you, beautiful soul! Best of luck to all of us in the WL gang.

ThatsAmore said:

Any predictions for when we might see high priority waitlist movement here? Are we thinking end of next week?

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Nah. Movement will very likely happen after April 30th, when lots of accepted applicants need to make some decisions. So I expect movement (at the very, very earliest) starting on May 3rd.

Otterly said:

How's everybody doing? I personally am slowly dying on the inside.

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feeling the same way :/

hi everyone

i’m being my neurotic self and have been combing through the 2019-2020 SDN forum. some notes:
- basically last year there were no reports on the forum of A off the WL in the first 3 weeks after april 30.
- someone called dr. callahan and she said that the WL movement had not happened yet bc of their later CTE deadline/covid
- email copy and pasted from the forum from Dr. C: “Even though applicants were supposed to give up all but one accept on April 30, they did not have to commit to enroll with us, so we are still sitting on a lot of accepts, not knowing whether they are going to come or not. As a result, we have not yet gone to our waitlist and it is unclear when we will.”

just to make anyone who’s legit going crazy feel a little bit better? idk if this is good or bad news honestly. but hopefully there’s still hope

edit: skmc CTE deadline this year is june 25, 2021

auntjuju said:

hi everyone

i’m being my neurotic self and have been combing through the 2019-2020 SDN forum. some notes:
- basically last year there were no reports on the forum of A off the WL in the first 3 weeks after april 30.
- someone called dr. callahan and she said that the WL movement had not happened yet bc of their later CTE deadline/covid
- email copy and pasted from the forum from Dr. C: “Even though applicants were supposed to give up all but one accept on April 30, they did not have to commit to enroll with us, so we are still sitting on a lot of accepts, not knowing whether they are going to come or not. As a result, we have not yet gone to our waitlist and it is unclear when we will.”

just to make anyone who’s legit going crazy feel a little bit better? idk if this is good or bad news honestly. but hopefully there’s still hope

edit: skmc CTE deadline this year is june 25, 2021

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I think this is already good news because someone reported getting of the WL on Monday! That makes me think they already burned through their acceptances so any other withdraws from people with As will result in pulling from the waitlist 😀