Socrates1

From what I've heard, the social functions in the evening, whether it's dinner or drinks with a professor, or hitting the bars with some current grad students is literally another interview. As in, that is when they see if you're socially well-adjusted, friendly, someone they'd like to spend years working with, and not obviously insane. Attendance is basically mandatory.

Seriously? Yeah, it'd be slightly annoying, but I think I'd much rather get into graduate school if I get an interview than throw a tantrum over something so petty and kill any chance of being admitted to the program.

Well over a thousand dollars. I haven't added it up because I know I'll just feel nauseated by the damage to my savings.

Wait, so USC hasn't even done interviews, you're saying? I've been assuming this already happened and I'm getting rejected. I certain;y haven't heard anything. I haven't heard anything from UCLA. I'm also assuming I'm about to receive a barrage of rejection letters.

^^This, so much this.

If anyone is still waiting for Yale, I'm afraid they're done. I expected it at this point, but they posted a generic, all graduate programs rejection letter to my profile yesterday, so it looks like they've filled all openings in the graduate school for next Fall.

I'm lucky there's nobody else in my lab right now because I just burst out laughing.

Spiral into total depression for a few weeks, hopefully get a better job. Start studying to retake the GRE all over again...

Bleh. Given that you posted this 4 days ago with information from the previous week, I guess I should start bracing myself for that rejection notification.

Anyone know whether lots of invites go out in February as well? I've only heard back from one school so far, a rejection. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm having a hard time with this.

Applied to 8, been rejected by one so far. It's kind of depressing, honestly.

Thanks, I do hope so. Unfortunately my GPA isn't that hot either, but hopefully anyone who bothers glancing at my transcript will see that was just be being a stupid 18-year old my freshman year. Good that you heard back from one so far, sadly the only news I've gotten is a notification that I didn't make the interviews at OHSU.

I got rejected by the Behavioral Neuroscience program at Oregon Health & Science on the 20th. Standard "thanks for your interest, but you didn't make our interview cut" type of email. That's all I've heard so far, depressingly.

Study a lot, taking some test prep class, online or in person would be a really good idea. Get some strategies for dealing with stress and anxiety. Take practice tests.

the test is seriously evil, no denying that.