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California University of Science and Medicine

California University

2025-2026 Thread
anonymous
Nov 13, 2025
#1

If I ii’d 9/23 and still haven’t received a decision or virtual engagement day should I assume R? I’m a little worried honestly.

anonymous
Nov 13, 2025
#2

anonymous:

If I ii’d 9/23 and still haven’t received a decision or virtual engagement day should I assume R? I’m a little worried honestly.

I don't think so, I think they said something for this school like if they don't come to a decision to you for this wave then you will be moved to the next meeting, which who knows how often those are

anonymous
Dec 3, 2025 • Edited Dec 3, 2025
#3

anonymous:

I don't think so, I think they said something for this school like if they don't come to a decision to you for this wave then you will be moved to the next meeting, which who knows how often those are

iirc they do weekly decisions unless there's a holiday or something.

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Dec 7, 2025
#4

anonymous:

If I ii’d 9/23 and still haven’t received a decision or virtual engagement day should I assume R? I’m a little worried honestly.

I had an interview invite on 10/13 last cycle and NEVER heard back from them at all (all the way through June). If you check the SDN forum, you will see when they get through their initial review of your interview date, if you don't receive any communication from them at that point, I would expect to receive an R.

anonymous
Dec 12, 2025
#5

Dear CUSM, Please accept me today. Thank you.

anonymous
Dec 13, 2025
#6

anxiousdonkey305:

I had an interview invite on 10/13 last cycle and NEVER heard back from them at all (all the way through June). If you check the SDN forum, you will see when they get through their initial review of your interview date, if you don't receive any communication from them at that point, I would expect to receive an R.

wait can you elaborate more on what you mean by checking the SDN forum

anonymous
Dec 15, 2025
#7

Hello, did any accepted students to CUSM receive the DocuSign paperwork email that was supposed to be sent out in December? Thanks

anonymous
Dec 16, 2025
#8

Hello, did any accepted students to CUSM receive the DocuSign paperwork email that was supposed to be sent out in December? Thanks

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Dec 30, 2025
#9

Waitlisted

anonymous
Jan 1, 2026
#10

neuromed:

Waitlisted

When did you find out?

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Jan 17, 2026
#11

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Jan 30, 2026
#12

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anonymous
Feb 4, 2026
#13

Should we expect no more interview invites to be sent out at this point in the cycle?

anonymous
Feb 5, 2026
#14

anonymous:

Should we expect no more interview invites to be sent out at this point in the cycle?

Following!

anonymous
Feb 6, 2026
#15

is there an admitted students discord or chat?

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Feb 7, 2026
#16

anonymous:

is there an admitted students discord or chat?

Also looking for admitted discord/chat.

anonymous
Feb 8, 2026
#17

Has anyone else who interviewed in September just gotten their virtual engagement day invite? I haven’t gotten a decision from CUSM yet so i just assumed the worst but does this mean anything?

anonymous
Feb 12, 2026
#18

medgirly:

Also looking for admitted discord/chat.

I am also wondering this!

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Feb 16, 2026
#19

anonymous:

Has anyone else who interviewed in September just gotten their virtual engagement day invite? I haven’t gotten a decision from CUSM yet so i just assumed the worst but does this mean anything?

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anonymous
Feb 19, 2026
#20

Does anyone have any insight into if CUSM offers good scholarships? The indebtedness reported on MSAR if pretty low but I can't find any info...

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Mar 17, 2026
#21

Does anyone have the groupme for accepted students?

anonymous
Mar 19, 2026
#22

They’re done sending interviews?

anonymous
Mar 19, 2026
#23

Anyone have some data on how many students in the class are non-traditional (over one gap year)?

anonymous
Mar 19, 2026
#24

Anyone else hoping for WL movement tmr or next week? Prob not tmr as it's match week. But last year on 3/25 there was quite a bit of movement on SDN.

anonymous
Mar 19, 2026
#25

anonymous:

Anyone have some data on how many students in the class are non-traditional (over one gap year)?

Check MSARs - you can probably guess through age

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Mar 24, 2026
#26

does anyone know when WL movement will start for this school?

anonymous
Mar 24, 2026
#27

anonymous:

Does anyone have any insight into if CUSM offers good scholarships? The indebtedness reported on MSAR if pretty low but I can't find any info...

+1 I was wondering if they give scholarships and when we can expect to hear back? I only have loan information in my student portal.

anonymous
Mar 24, 2026
#28

drsahiba:

does anyone know when WL movement will start for this school?

At the VIP day they said to expect news after April 30th for WL movement, but I interviewed in October and got off the waitlist 2/6 so it could happen any day.

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Mar 24, 2026
#29

anonymous:

At the VIP day they said to expect news after April 30th for WL movement, but I interviewed in October and got off the waitlist 2/6 so it could happen any day.

Gotcha, thanks!

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Mar 24, 2026
#30

drsahiba:

Gotcha, thanks!

I believe April 30th is the deadline for choosing schools essentially. All students can only be holding an acceptance at 1 school so they have to drop their acceptances at others. That’s why May is waitlist movement time. that’s my understanding anyways

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Mar 28, 2026
#31

Anyone know if they are still sending out IIs?

anonymous
Mar 28, 2026
#32

flyingtothemoon:

Anyone know if they are still sending out IIs?

Def not, idk

anonymous
Mar 28, 2026
#33

flyingtothemoon:

Anyone know if they are still sending out IIs?

I doubt it, I just had my virtual engagement day and one faculty member said it was the last one for this cycle.

anonymous
Mar 28, 2026
#34

anonymous:

I doubt it, I just had my virtual engagement day and one faculty member said it was the last one for this cycle.

Did they say anything about the admission cycle? There has been ZERO movement on admit for the month of March. (although in SDN there was like 1 WL reported)

anonymous
Mar 28, 2026 • Edited Mar 28, 2026
#35

anonymous:

Did they say anything about the admission cycle? There has been ZERO movement on admit for the month of March. (although in SDN there was like 1 WL reported)

Not really 🫩All she told us was that the admissions committee only meets weekly but they plan to conclude all results by the end of April, except WLs can get accepted up until the day before orientation.

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Apr 1, 2026
#37

Has anyone else been waiting a ridiculously long amount of time for a decision? I interviewed literally almost 7 months ago, did virtual engagement day, and have still heard nothing. Feels like they forgot about me lol

anonymous
Apr 1, 2026
#38

themadness:

Has anyone else been waiting a ridiculously long amount of time for a decision? I interviewed literally almost 7 months ago, did virtual engagement day, and have still heard nothing. Feels like they forgot about me lol

Yeah I have also. Got my virtual engagement day a couple months ago too. I believe the way it works for CUSM is there seems to be a lot of WL movement. I’m guessing everyone who hasn’t gotten an A or WL is on an internally ranked “WL hold” where they decide to move people up when there’s space until a certain date (assuming late May-June), then they lock in the As + WL and reject everyone else.

I know someone who didn’t hear back at all (no WL) early on and randomly got an A recently. I don’t think it means we’re necessarily out of the running but also it’s hard to say we’re not sitting in a reject pile.

anonymous
Apr 9, 2026
#39

Does anyone have any information on when they start sending financial aid information, or anything about scholarships?

anonymous
Apr 24, 2026
#40

Anyone else still waiting for a post ii decision? 🥲

anonymous
Apr 24, 2026
#41

anonymous:

Anyone else still waiting for a post ii decision? 🥲

Yup. If we dont hear something today we're likely getting ghosted since its the last friday of April 😔

anonymous
Apr 24, 2026
#42

anonymous:

Yup. If we dont hear something today we're likely getting ghosted since its the last friday of April 😔

Why so?

anonymous
Apr 24, 2026
#43

anonymous:

Why so?

They review applicants on Thursdays and release the results after, but looking at previous year's sdn, admissions said they finish reviewing before the end of April and everyone without a post-II result before May got ghosted

anonymous
Apr 24, 2026
#44

anonymous:

They review applicants on Thursdays and release the results after, but looking at previous year's sdn, admissions said they finish reviewing before the end of April and everyone without a post-II result before May got ghosted

💔 their virtual engagement day I got somewhat recently gave me hope

anonymous
Apr 25, 2026 • Edited Apr 25, 2026
#45

Does this mean we are not getting any financial aid estimates before April 30th? Or anything regarding scholarships?

anonymous
Apr 25, 2026 • Edited Apr 25, 2026
#46

anonymous:

Does this mean we are not getting any financial aid estimates before April 30th? Or anything regarding scholarships?

I don't think so. You can access your financial aid estimates on their portal, but it's all loans unless you were selected for the CUSM scholarship that had the 3/23/26 deadline. From my understanding, if you weren't selected and there's additional funding remaining, they reconsider all applicants until funding runs out. But we won't know until June/July and don't rely on getting anything.

anonymous
Apr 25, 2026
#47

anonymous:

I don't think so. You can access your financial aid estimates on their portal, but it's all loans unless you were selected for the CUSM scholarship that had the 3/23/26 deadline. From my understanding, if you weren't selected and there's additional funding remaining, they reconsider all applicants until funding runs out. But we won't know until June/July and don't rely on getting anything.

Thank you for the reply! I will be withdrawing for financial reasons then, hope someone gets my A soon!

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Apr 25, 2026
#48

anonymous:

Yup. If we dont hear something today we're likely getting ghosted since its the last friday of April 😔

Does this include waitlists? Or is that a decision?

anonymous
Apr 26, 2026
#49

dragonslayer18:

Does this include waitlists? Or is that a decision?

WL counts, anyone who's heard nothing at all post ii is currently on a "hold" list which is below the waitlist according to admissions when an SDN user called on Friday.

anonymous
Apr 27, 2026
#50

anonymous:

WL counts, anyone who's heard nothing at all post ii is currently on a "hold" list which is below the waitlist according to admissions when an SDN user called on Friday.

yeah I’m lowwwwwww on that list if I’ve been on it this long