Leeds med: not a rejection but not an offer?

Hi, I’ve just heard back from leeds uni after doing my medicine interview

I haven’t been rejected, but I also haven’t been given an offer: “we do not wish to reject your application at this time as we could be in a position to make you an offer later in the Spring, should a place become available.”

I should hear back by May 13th, but i’m confused how a place could become available? Is there any chance of me getting an offer now?

Thanks for any info

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DoctorJorts

When med schools make an offer, they're basically placing a bet. If they have 200 places they might know they need to have about 550 open offers at the deadline, say, for those offers to actually convert to students at a certain rate. Some universities will set up a pool of reserve candidates closer to the border that they can pull from if needed, a system to stop them from either having to over-offer initially or worry as people withdraw, firm/insurance elsewhere, etc.

The chance of you getting an offer depends entirely on how Leeds are structuring their offer-making process; if they've been making offers at the same time as interviewing people, I'd guess they're keeping a bigger pool of people who are perhaps slightly more likely to get offers than they would have if they made all the decisions after interviewing everyone.

I don't think anyone outside of Leeds can properly rate your chances, but they're not zero. Unfortunately you're just going to be hanging around until May.

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