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How do you know you have a POI?

Wait, we can decline after acceptance? that doesn't hurt us professionally in the long term??

I was accepted Feb 2nd by one school and they wanted a response by the end of february... I applied to other programs and thus asked the first school for additional time. Should I just accept and then rescind my acceptance? Is that allowed?

To jw83: For me, what made a school undesirable (even though I was offered admission) was meeting my potential colleagues. Some of them were incredibly offensive with their racism and hatred/dismissal of trans people. The violent/hostile climate would definitely make me not want to go there and stay there for 5+ years- but those are things you cannot learn by just reading a website/program overview.

This is somewhat related, I know that if accepted to one program, I will not go to a school that offered me admission. How unprofessional/inappropriate is it to decline an offer of admission if you have already signed the letter? (I haven't, I just want to know if you can later say no, like in undergrad- pay a deposit but not attend)

I have this same question! This school wanted an answer by February 20th. I asked for an extension to March 15th but still, I can't expect to hear back from my waitlist at only March 15th. What kind of fallout can I expect if I "accept" my offer of admission and then later say "no thanks?" How binding is the agreement when I sign the letter (this is before the school has accepted me, this is just me saying yes to the department)?

I feel all of this so much! I'm now ruminating on whether I did something awful on my interview or where on the list I am. I've been stalking the results page and no one in my group has posted anything... Am I waitlisted? Am I on their "must have" list?? I'm a ball of anxiety!!

I hope my interviews went well. I know when the adcom meets (they have it on their calendar) and know of a student who went on the first trip and was offered admission the day after their adcom met. I've been analyzing all of my behavior and god I hope I didn't come off as arrogant, disingenuous, or disinterested. What does it mean that I did not have an offer the day after adcom met? Am I waitlisted?

Both of my visits have been 2 days of interviews- though I didn't apply to OHSU.

I had a dream the day after I got home from a school visit: I stayed at the school for a couple days to have my own follow-up interviews with profs where I was uncertain how the interview went. I got an offer of admission. I woke up when I tried to call my parents to tell them. I was in bed, saw my phone in my hand and thought to myself, "it's 8am and you haven't checked your email yet. what are you doing? what if you didn't actually get in?" I put my phone down and checked my email, it's Sunday, of course there's nothing yet.

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I had 6 one-on-one sessions at my last visit, but one of them was incredibly jarring. The prof I was interviewing with acted like they hadn't read my application or got me confused with someone else! She asked if I'd taken statistics and why I wanted to do research if I didn't have any research experience- my SOP was specifically on my varied research experiences (I had semester lab rotations in undergrad to then pick a lab for my senior thesis, which was my own original project) that have led me to apply to an interdisciplinary and collaborative program. I also completed a year of statistics and analysis. But she didn't let me finish my explanation of my research experience before talking about her current project. When I saw her at an evening mixer the same day (I walked over to speak briefly with two professors I'd interviewed with that day, she being one of them) she didn't say "hello" but something along the lines of, "impressive that you can form a coherent sentence after all the interviews today!" when another prof paid me a compliment and I humbly accepted (he learned something new from my interview because we have completely unrelated research) by referencing something I had learned from him. That same day, an interviewing prof who's the director told me that I was "very mature," "smart," and "I like the way you think." I don't know who's on adcom (all interviewing profs? I've tried looking on the website and found out about one on the adcom because she said so at a lunch) but I have a feeling that if the first prof is, oh wow am I screwed. How does an adcom actually work??

I feel this so much!!!! My roommate is the "accomplished" one and I just feel like how could we both receive an offer of admission????

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