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For schools that do interviews (e.g. Yale), what type of interview is it? Do they just ask you to talk more about your interests to gauge fit, or do they ask more substantive/technical questions to test your knowledge?

The graduate research fellowship (GRFP)

This might be a little off-topic, but any info on NSF notifications? Are there any hints or intermediate notifications leading up to the final decisions?

They said it would come by overnight express, so I'm thinking FedEx... I haven't gotten mine yet so I'm guessing it was held up by the blizzard!

I'm the American subfield at Berkeley as well

Got one of the calls from Berkeley! Thrilled.

No, I don't think so. I'm one of those who got a call with good news yesterday and nothing on my application website has changed from when I submitted it.

One of the MIT acceptances is me! I got a phone call from a professor, and will be receiving an official letter through the mail. So excited!

What's the "FLAS email"?

I'm one of the NYU admits - received the email a few hours ago but didn't get a chance until recently to post it on the results board. The email came from the department, not a POI.

Same, haven't received an email about GRE scores and my application still hasn't been matched to them on the system.

Some of my applications had asked me to list any profs that I've had contact with at the department. I was told by my recommenders that I shouldn't contact profs at other schools about my application/interest in their program, and I didn't. There also seems to be conflicting opinions in previous threads here on the "value" of contacting profs. My question is -- for the applications that asked me to list profs at their department I've contacted or consulted with, how will the adcom use the answer? If I left my answer for that blank, since I didn't contact any profs, will that have put me at a disadvantage (i.e. in showing interest) for those programs? (I'm thinking specifically about the Columbia and Stanford applications.)

I think any uploaded transcript is considered unofficial (for instance, a scan of an official transcript is "unofficial" because it isn't the original). So if a school required you to upload a transcript, you shouldn't worry about whether you uploaded an official or unofficial copy... they'll treat any uploaded transcript as "unofficial" and wait to confirm it with the "official" mailed-in paper copy that you'll send if you're admitted.