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  1. I'm pretty sure they are staggered because they are completely PI-dependent--the PI I interviewed with used wording along the lines of "I'm ready to give you an offer," and one of the other people in his lab told me that he continued emailing with members of the lab for like a month after his interview before he got his offer. Hang in there!
  2. They're February 24-25 and March 3-4 I think (get there 23/2, depart 26/5).
  3. Haha didn't want to quote the novel again since it takes up so much space, but thank you so much for writing the whole thing! I guess we'll see what happens after I go on a few more of these visits and rethink programs some more. There were some programs I actually added as applications last minute after deciding not to apply, so maybe I'll look again and see if I was really deluding myself about some of them. I hope I reach the same confident conclusion you did about my eventual choice!
  4. Yeah, I have that same impulse right now because I feel like I don't have any more information now than when I applied, so it's hard to decide which ones to give up on. If you had to pick in retrospect, which ones do you wish you hadn't gone to (more like, how would you decide retrospectively which ones might not have been worth the time?) Do you feel like your feelings and impressions about schools before the interviews mostly turned out to be justified?
  5. They were just providing extra information actually. I think of all of the schools it seems they are working the hardest to convince you to like the program!
  6. Hey, saw this bit and was wondering if you have any opinions about doing that many interviews! I applied ChemE also so a lot of mine are visitation weekends and not interviews, but I'm approaching that number and am starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Why did you go for all of them, and do you recommend it or do you suggest trying to filter some out beforehand?
  7. Just because they get hundreds of applications doesn't mean they read all of them though... They probably throw half of them out based on GPA/GRE--I know, I know, our statements are supposed to matter but that's not the sense I get when professors talk about the admissions process from their end. I said what I said because if you look at the survey results for Berkeley there are 8 acceptances before the 21st of December, and last year the only later admits were for the master's. Someone got in mid-January last year, but mid-Jan is almost over. Then the year before it was all late January but because this year's wave was so early I feel like it's more likely to be like last year than the year before, and the person I know was really surprised that they heard back so fast. Stanford last year was first week of January too. Some years it's later, but again, people reported Dec/Jan this year and my friend got their call before we got back to campus so... Idk I mean you never know, some programs have multiple waves and there's always a waitlist. I tend to be pessimistic because then you're right or pleasantly surprised but maybe not the best attitude to have on GradCafe where everyone is anxious!
  8. Fraid I can't help you there, everyone I know is domestic. I don't know that they would do separate deadlines though? In general to people, I think Wisconsin tends to come out in waves? One of them was definitely on December 22 this year, I know multiple people heard then, but historically it looks like they also do later in January, like probably this week if they do. Someone I know heard from Colorado today as well but there it seems to be all over the place in timing. Other schools: Delaware - definitely rolling, was possible to be admitted before priority deadline. Caltech - unsure but the person I know heard this past week. Northwestern - I think this was all on Sunday, my guess is it would be off waitlist to get accepted later in March or something. Berkeley - I think these all happened in December but historically internationals may be later? Stanford - I think they're done, I think this was end of Dec/beginning of Jan. UCSB - seems to be somewhat scattered, hard to say, but I know that they sent an initial email and there have been followup more official seeming emails and calls so they may be done.
  9. From what I've heard Wisconsin, Delaware, Caltech, Northwestern, Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSB have also sent out at least some acceptances.
  10. Congrats! My undergrad is in ChemE and none of those grad programs I applied to do interviews. I still haven't figured out why it's different between programs, but I guess interviews are the norm in biology so maybe that's why? Have to say it's nice to have the peace of mind of a few acceptances while waiting to visit/hear back from BE programs...
  11. Historically they send them all out on the same day, but looks like someone reported a result a few hours before so they probably are not all at the exact same time. 2-3 more hours till the end of the business day I guess...?
  12. Just wanted to share that Duke has an interview weekend 1/20 but they also have weekends in February and March so I think there's plenty of time. Since you get admitted directly into a lab, seems very dependent on how individual faculty conduct their review of applications and reach out to prospectives.
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