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Haha, it's actually called "prospective students weekend," I think... I just couldn't remember. "Interview weekend" probably would have been a better word choice.

I did my undergrad at Michigan, and when I was talking to my advisor there the other day she mentioned that the full admissions committee was meeting at the very end of the month to decide who to invite to the screening weekend. So don't expect to hear anything from them until February!

It's actually been going a lot quicker than I expected for me, but I think I'm about to hit a slump (and it's already driving me mad)... I was told I'd hear back from USC next week, I doubt Berkeley will send out news any sooner than that, I've heard from a second-hand source that Yale isn't looking for phoneticians (which I kind of already knew) and UCLA looks like it usually sends out results in February. I need to put the last touches on the design for an experiment I'm running in a week and a half... but all of this waiting is so distracting!!!

Good, one less thing to panic about! (Now there's only about 50 left...)

I did, for tomorrow! I feel bad for anyone who has to interact with me over the next 24 hours, I'm going to be a wreck... Did they say anything specific about what they wanted to talk to you about? For me it said specifically in the email that they wanted to talk about how my writing sample related to my research interests... Which could be something they said to everyone, or it could be because there's a bit of a mismatch (my writing sample was my undergraduate thesis, which looked at third language phonological acquisition, and I didn't say much about acquisition in my SOP).