electricfan
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I applied, but my application was not strong. I believe we will hear back on Monday, March 29.
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I completely agree -- especially because half of my deadlines were Dec. 1st and I still haven't heard back from 10/11 schools. UGH!
Any updates on:
- Stony Brook
- Albany
- Pitt
- CMU
- Penn State
- Lehigh
- UMD
- Johns Hopkins
- UDel
- GWU
Pitt conducted interviews already.
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Here's one I haven't heard:
How are you carrying your stuff around with you? My dilemma is that I'll be interviewing with six different people through the course of one day with lots of walking in between and a reception in the evening. I want to bring a smaller purse for convenience (room for a wallet, small notepad and pen, phone and a camera). I've heard that we should bring a few copies of our CV just in case, but I wouldn't be able to fit them without folding them in half. Should I suck it up and bring a larger, clunkier purse just so I can fit my nice resume folder, or should I just go CV-less?
My first one, they had an empty office to lock luggage in during the interviews. Second one said to leave it at the hotel.
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I was panicking in a similar situation until I was accepted (by email from a prof) to Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, obv) today.
My stats:
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - accepted, haven't asked about funding
University of Pittsburgh - attended interviews last weekend, will find out admission this weekend, haven't asked about funding (heard everyone gets stipends)
SUNY Buffalo - accepted via email BUT no funding (= not going there...)
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UPenn - rejected (woo)
MIT - nothing (all invites already sent out == implicit rejection)
CMU - nothing (their visiting weekend was last weekend == implicit rejection)
Rochester - nothing (sleuthing says their interview/visiting weekend is March 5-7 and invites have gone out == implicit rejection?)
Brown - nothing, but not expected to hear for a while
Stanford - nothing (== implicit rejection? unsure.)
A prof at Pittsburgh said that they had a BOX of applications from students who were well-qualified and should be interviewed but would not be due to higher competition this year. GAH. (Pittsburgh and Buffalo were supposed to be my safeties...) When I was visiting Pittsburgh EVERYONE (even those who were interviewing at CMU) had been rejected from Michigan. Yikes.
My uncle's on an adcom at BU and he is insisting that they have until the deadline specified to make decisions, so at least silence is better than being part of the immediately-rejected crowd. Small consolation. He also said that this is the time to contact the schools and pester (unless they say not to somewhere) so that you're not forgotten.
I don't know if this is what you were hoping to hear...
How did the interview at Pitt go? Anything catch you off guard?
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Bump. Anyone know any timetable for Davis this year? Any interview invites gone out?
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$150 for a test is a far cry from the years of tuition, living costs, interest on student debt, deferred wages, etc etc you are going to spend (or lose) in grad school.
PLUS consider that the GMAT costs $250
The MCAT is $210
The LSAT costs $132, but you only get one score report and you have to register for the LSDAS to apply to most schools, which costs $121 and only includes one other score report.
Believe me, "generic" grad school applicants spend MUCH LESS than any MBA, Law, or Medical school applicant, which not only have higher costs in terms of standardized test fees, but generally higher application costs as well.
Again, if you treat grad school as a "sunk cost" and intend to pursue some irrelevant degree with questionable job opportunities, then I guess I can see why you might worry about paying $150 for a test. But most people need to look at grad school as an investment in their futures that will (hopefully) lead to an increase in expected future earnings and justify the initial investment in all related expenses associated with grad school.
Not a single thing in your post is relevant to the problem. I don't care what the GMAT cost, I'm not taking it. I don't care what MBAs spend, I'm not perusing one. If you think $150 is so insignificant, why don't you step up and offer to pay the fee for some of the members here?
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Just once. I read the Kaplan book and went through the vocab flash cards that come in the little box. They helped a lot, my score was in the 1500's
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Just don't do what I did accidentally - I sent a SOP to one school saying how much I like the research at a different school. Was rejected very quickly.
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Hooray something I can help with! And hooray for you and your interview!
I've only had one actual phone interview, but I'll tell you what I can. Mine lasted for over an hour (yikes) but I'm sure it varies. She basically told me about what she was working on (and asked me what I thought I'd be interested in of what she described). Be ready to give a little shpeel about your current research and about your future research interests. Definitely have some questions ready for them (atmosphere of the department, requirements, etc).
If they want to spend an hour of their day on the phone with you, they must like you! So relax (or try to, or seem like you are).
Good luck!
20 minutes.
"X,Y,Z each are looking for grad students this fall. Are you still interested?"
"Why are you interested in this field?"
"If it turns out you do not like the program, how long would it take you to figure that out?"
"Why did some of your math grades suck so bad?" (okay, not a direct quote there)
"Would you like to visit for an interview with X,Y,Z in person?"
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I'd rather do it the American way... go to a lawyer, see if we got a case and sue the cra* out of them!
I'd go for that, they overcharged my credit card $140 to send scores. I was on the phone for hours with customer service and they said they didn't have record of it. My bank fixed it, but then ETS sent me a bill for the money I never owed in the first place.
Dinner with current graduate student?
in Waiting it Out
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I had to pay for one meal at UCSD, but that's it.