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Saw this in my LinkedIn profile views today...not sure if this means anything, just thought I'd update you guys!

@billdozer Nothing yet! I expect we'll hear back next week at the earliest, but probably 2+ weeks is more likely

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@bellis Thanks for that; it was definitely tough to accept at first but it was definitely a learning experience! If I'm fortunate enough to interview again I'll definitely be better prepared. Plus I'm still looking at other great opportunities, so hopefully something will pan out! I personally chose MHCI+D over HCDE because MHCI+D is going to be much more industry-focused. There are going to be projects where we will collaborate with actual industry professionals, and work on some of their real problems. The intensive one-year format appealed to me a lot as well, since I'll have to temporarily separate from my spouse for most or all of the program, but mostly I chose MHCI+D because I think it's a better fit for what I want to do. Also, Michael Smith is the new leader of the program, and knowing some UW design majors who worked with him, I expect that the program is going to be really rigorous and exciting for our year. I mean from the looks of things it has been great in past years too, but I'm very excited for the future of the program. I think it will become extremely competitive in the coming years.

@siitrasn I haven't worked in UX already...the Google thing would have been my first UX-related job if I'd been successful. Alas I'm still trying to get related work, though, and I'll keep trying until I get something or until the program starts (If I'm admitted obviously). My most recent jobs have been administrative so I'm just trying to break out of that and get something closer to UX Research. Nice to talk to another applicant for the program!

Lol I'm pretty much talking to myself here, but whatever... Feeling pretty sad right now because I just failed my Google interview. It was for a Research Participant Coordinator position, so if I'd got it, I would have been regularly collaborating and negotiating with UX Researchers w.r.t participants for their studies. It was a great opportunity, I managed to get past the phone screen to the in-person interviews, but sadly I wasn't hired in the end. Not sure what you guys are up to for trying to prepare yourselves for the program, but that's me so far.

Yeah it's the same for me, UW MHCI+D was the only program I applied for. We recently got an email saying that the MHCID faculty admissions committee "will be reviewing materials and making decisions throughout January and February", so of course I am now checking my application status every day. Or more than that. =\ I mean this waiting period is nothing compared to undergraduate admissions but it is still pretty agonizing! I'm also trying to become a UX Researcher, so fingers crossed for both of us!!

Just throwing this out there for any other UW MHCI+D applicants for 2017. As you all know, apps were due on Jan 12th so we have a little while to wait! I only applied to MHCI+D, but this could be a discussion area for applicants of similar programs (HCDE, etc) to vent/rant/discuss as well

Here's mine in roughly the order I took them in Princeton Review #6 : 161V 156Q 2.5AW Princeton Review #3 : 163V 165Q 3.0AW Princeton Review #7 : 161V 166Q 4.0AW Magoosh: 163V 158Q Magoosh: 164V 158Q PowerPrep #1: 165V 158Q Magoosh: 163V 158Q Princeton Review #8: 162V 161Q 5.0AW ETS Book Test #1: 170V 161Q ETS Book Test #2: 170V 165Q PowerPrep #2: 166V 161Q Actual test: 168V 158Q ?AW You can see the Magoosh quant estimate is on target, though I will say that I kinda messed up one of the math portions (and most likely not the experimental section) by losing track of time, so I think if I took it again I might be closer to my PP#2 score of 161. You can clearly see though that Princeton Review vastly overestimates my quant scores. So does the ETS book score to an extent...perhaps I should take the paper-based exam if I do it again. I would say Magoosh was pretty helpful in preparing for the quant section. Magoosh underestimated my verbal somewhat, in fact every test does except the ETS book tests. I attribute this to poor quality questions. Neither PR nor Magoosh have verbal questions that are as well-worded and clear as real GRE questions, though Magoosh was a little better than PR in this respect in my opinion. Princeton Review was therefore pretty useless EXCEPT with the Analytical Writing portion. You can see my first writing score was abysmal and that was simply because I didn't really know what to expect for my first try of the test. I go from 2.5 all the way up to 5, and I expect that my actual score will be around 5 (but I guess we'll see about that), despite the unusable and disgusting keyboard(!) at the testing centre. The feedback provided by the human graders was actually pretty helpful, and it might be worth it to buy a PR book just to get a few graded essays out of it. I was pretty surprised about how my ETS paper-based scores were significantly higher than both my PP and actual scores. Not sure why this is, especially considering I completed both of them timed.