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No that seems absurd that a school itself would limit your funding if you got in. If you were to get funding externally (via an NSF fellowship, say), then GRE scores might make you a more competitive applicant for the fellowship. However, the NSF fellowship has not required GRE in a few years I believe (definitely not this year)...I don't know about other external sources of funding.

I scored very high and would like to think it was a factor, but honestly once you reach 155-160 per section, I doubt it makes any difference or gets looked at again--especially for Social. 150 or below would probably be somewhat of a factor, but this is not undergrad and I don't think they're looking at test scores as this person got a 157 and this person got a 165 so Person B is better. Those two would pretty much be the same, and they turn to the other more directly relevant factors like recs, experience, fit, statements, pubs/posters. Michigan is a top program and their averages were 155 & 159 last year. I think it's far from the science (no pun intended) that undergrad admissions more closely resemble.

Ah, sorry! Well at least you had more guts than I did to contact your PI...I'm going to hold off for at least another 2 weeks and then if I don't hear anything I'm sending an email out to most of the schools. (Not waiting to March just because they only send out Rejects when they feel like it). Much Anxious Very Waiting- can you PM me/post your PI since I'm Social as well?? Also, are you sure they were taking grad students? Thanks!!

You had an interview for Harvard or somewhere else? Looks like somebody already got rejected from Social today..

uncneuronerd- I take it one was Jason Mitchell Interesting Harvard is on break for another 2 weeks. Hasn't seemed to stop some PIs from emailing, but may mean official interview invites are not likely until the faculty return

Curious about the Social Psych person who posted they got an interview on 1/10. Looks like it varied a lot last year with interviews sent out between mid Jan.-early Feb. I'll die if I don't hear anything (reject, interview, or otherwise) until Feb. Anyone else here find it odd how Harvard PIs don't seem to know if they are allowed to take a student until around this time of year? It seems their faculty have a points or ranking system for taking grad students.

They were for everyone sent by grad admissions director for the official interview weekend end of January

Starting a new thread for anyone applying to Harvard. It would especially be great if some of those who have been contacted and posted on the Results page could share any more details here. Has anybody received an official invite for an on-campus interview or just informal interviews that were PI specific? I'd also be interested to know from anyone applying to the Social Psych program and heard something, who their PI is? You can PM me. Thanks!!

Interview invites were sent out 12/17. ~20 people were invited if I remember correctly. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!