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Someone posted a Harvard interview. Harvard sends all their interview emails on the same day judging from past results, so it looks like I got rejected :/
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In case some of you is interested, a friend of mine just got an interview invite form Harvard
Oh dear.. would you mind PMing me his POI?
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Well I had to turn them down and ask them for a Skype interview instead, they're asking me to miss like 6 lectures, seriously.
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I don't think I can go though. They want me to arrive late Wednesday and leave Saturday? Seriously? I can't miss all my classes.
You can go in my place Laniel.
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I got invited to Michigan
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OMGGG talk about being new to a forum and messing up
LOL it's ok. You did nothing wrong. I'm stressed out though. I want my invite!!!
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UGH, again sorry for causing confusion/stress - I'm gonna hide under my bed for the rest of the day.
I'm gonna hunt you down and pull you out of your damn bed!!!
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I didn't get invited :<
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Did you get an open house invite?
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Nah, they haven't.
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Someone posted an acceptance to Maryland. They don't even decide until mid-March!
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I don't think this is the kind of information they would reveal, even if they were to respond to your email.
That's a good point. I was hoping I could infer it from their email even if they didn't actually say it outright, though.
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I don't think it would be inappropriate, but I am also not sure you would get the kind of reply detailing what you needed to do to improve your application, or any reply at all for that matter. This isn't anything personal. Faculty members often barely have the time to perform the adcom-related duties required of them, it might be too much to expect that they'll spend their time explaining to someone why they were rejected.
Who were you planning to email, by the way? The graduate director?
Hmm, I guess so.
I had a fifth recommendation letter for NYU, MIT and Harvard, and to be honest I only want to email them because I'm scared that my fifth letter writer said something bad. Well it wasn't the best fit for me, maybe that's why. And I would be ok with that. Maryland and UPenn are both better fits for me and are ranked higher, so I don't care much about NYU tbh.
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Guys, would it be appropriate if I sent an email to NYU asking why I didn't get an interview? I'm curious to see if there's something wrong with my application.
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Thanks for the information! It seems to me that schools are really starting to prefer if we take either a year off and work on research or attend an MA program. Or it's beginning to matter for differentiating between everyone at least (happened to me on the shortlist).
I'm just a philosophy major and I'm doing ok.
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I just got into Berkeley I can't even process what's happening now ahhh what?! I don't even know how to react I was totally not expecting this!!
Congrats!!!
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That would be kind of an odd thing for them to extend invitations based on proximity. When I went to the open house at Maryland two years ago, there were a number of international people present (including someone from New Zealand!). Unless their budget situation has significantly changed since then (and I am willing to bet it hasn't), I don't see why they would change their policy.
I'm just telling you exactly what my interviewer told me. He's on the committee, and he said people get invited depending on who they can afford to bring.
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Well, my interviewer is serving on the committee, so they may have changed things.
He didn't really give me a complete and full explanation though. I'm likely to get invited since I live relatively nearby.
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He was pretty vague about it, so maybe he meant that? It could also be that they're getting a good idea of who's getting admitted, but some people are still kind of in a grey area, so they invite people to the Open House, decide on those last few spots, and then release all the acceptances? I don't know, I'm just going off what he said.
They just invite people to the Open House based on their locations. People far away in Europe and stuff don't get invited as often because they're expensive to bring, but they're not denied admission. Nothing is certain yet.
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During my interview, my POI said the faculty were meeting to make "most but not all" of the decisions either this Tuesday (today) or next...I can't say for sure that there's not hope if you haven't been contacted (not all the decisions), but odds probably aren't great
That's strange! I was told that they'd make their open house decisions, not their admission decisions (I was told that would be mid March).
And being invited to the open house doesn't guarantee admission.
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Should I give up all hope for UPenn, then? Not that I had much hope to begin with, mind you...
They told me that they're going to make their decisions very soon, so I think so. I'm not 100% sure on either of these though.
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It seems like everyone did their interviews with Maryland last week and last weekend. Is it safe to assume that if I haven't heard from a POI there that they aren't interested? At this point, just being able to cross it off the list of things to worry about would be such a relief
I think so.
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It looks like someone else got an interview on the 19th--it's a pain to search bc some people list it as NYU, some as New York University without the acronym in parentheses. Have you heard from them? I have not, and I'm wondering if it's too early to count that as a loss.
I always mix up my 9s and 6s.
I haven't heard from them. I think I would have, but oh well, whatever.
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Well I didn't apply to Yale, but yeah nothing on the website about it.
Also being invited to open house doesn't really mean much since they only invite people who they can afford to bring (I was told so by Maryland). Well, maybe Yale is rich and they can afford to bring everyone, but..
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Congrats!!! I'm happy for you.