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Admission Rounds

Let’s recap: The system runs in two phases, or rounds, in order to occupy as many places as possible.

So any rejection will leave a place available for somebody else.
That place will be available during a second Admission Round.
And respectively, a second round of notifications will follow, along with applicants accepting or rejecting the admission.

After they decide, there won’t be any more changes/invitations/rounds.

So if you have an alternative marked with “Res #” that means that you are on a waiting list (reserve), in case people with a higher position on the ranking list will reject their position at that specific department. If # accepted students in the first Admission Round will reject their position, then you will get a second Notification of Admission in about 3 weeks with that alternative now marked “Admitted”.

In order to get in you need to have the following bellow zero (negative number) your_reserve_position - admitted_rejections - reserve_rejections. It’s just informative, since you won’t know how many among the admitted or among the reserves in front of you will reject the programme.

Your position in the ranking list of that programme is NOT equal to “Acc. in S.G.” + #. And above that, this year (2008) the reserves have been randomly picked/ordered1, thus unfortunately those in front of you on the waiting list are not necessarily more qualified. That would imply that they may desperately accept any offer they get.

So far, it’s not clear if you need to reply if all you’ve got is waiting lists - that is, only “Res #” and no “Admitted”, but my personal suggestion is to reply positively. The logic? Well, if you do not reply, then you may be considered as “not interested in the programme any longer”, so you will be ignored during the second Admission Round.

At this moment it is also not clear (=confirmed) what should be done in case you were admitted to one programme and you are on the waiting list for another that you would like more. You should check with universities, but the response so far was that you should accept in the first Admission Round the alternative where you got “Admitted”. You will still remain on the waiting lists for the other alternatives, for the second Admission Round.

If you get in, to one of those alternatives during the second round, then you can opt in for one of those. Unfortunately, I guess that will lead to positions being occupied just virtually - since there is no other admission round, and then the alternative you previously accepted will have no possibility to be fill in with the next on the waiting list, which all in all it’s not fair but it’s too complex to explain here (in short, those who get admitted in the first round, anywhere, get a favour of getting a chance at 2/3/.. places which won’t be possible for others to take).
Once again! Check with universities and proceed with cautious!

Keep in mind that only some of those admitted in the first round, and with a programme eligible for SI scholarships will be nominated for a one.

By the time the applicants will need to have their last word on this, it is highly improbably that they will know if they got a scholarship or not.
Just to be clear, nominated applicants (not sure, but most probably) will not have any information whether they have or have not received a scholarship or not from the Swedish Institute before the replying deadline is reached.

  1. this information is part of a conversation with a university reviewer ↩
Last Modified on June 17, 2008 @ 10:35 am
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