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I got an informal call maybe a week after I interviewed then an official letter package in the mail two weeks after that. Good luck!

Forgot to post this earlier, but I got an acceptance to Pitt's IBGP! I interviewed the first weekend. 

I think that schools usually follow up with an email if they can't get you on the phone. It is unlikely that they would leave no voicemail and also not try to contact you some other way... Personally, I would try to be patient.

Anyone know if NYU Sackler sent out rejections for Biomedical PhD? Looking at the results page here, I saw a bunch of people get interviews before Christmas but haven't seen any rejections posted. 
I haven't heard anything yet so I'm wondering if i'm on the 'wait-list' or if they just haven't gotten around to rejecting people yet :/ 

A campus interview is a balance between the school courting you, and you courting the school- that's why there's a balance. 
The scale ranges entirely from schools that only do visits post-admittance (i.e., no weight on the interview), to some that weight it significantly.
That said, weight is probably the wrong word, as your interview performance isn't really weighted in with the rest of your application. Once you've made it to the interview, that's a separate criteria than your materials pre-interview. 
It's more a function of how many students the invite relative to how many they accept in terms of how important the interview is as a screening tool. On one end, a school plans to admit everyone they invite unless someone does something that really screws it up. On the other end, some schools interview 2-3 times as many people as they plan on accepting. 
I think with financial stressors, more schools fall on the former end than the latter- it's expensive to bring out a lot of people you're not planning on admitting.

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that everyone is so friendly there.
Good luck to you as well on your interview this weekend!

Accepted to Ohio State Biomedical Sciences Graduate Ph.D. program after my interview weekend!!! First acceptance! Feels great!

I got an email from them way back before Christmas saying there was an 'unprecedented' number of applications and they needed more time to go through them and that they were going to resume the review process in early January and be sending out invites as they come. I'd say by the end of this week/middle of next week we should hear back a yes/no.

I got an email from them way back before Christmas saying there was an 'unprecedented' number of applications and they needed more time to go through them and that they were going to resume the review process in early January and be sending out invites as they come. I'd say by the end of this week/middle of next week we should hear back a yes/no.

For UCSF's program - check your application portal and click on admission decisions, the results should be out. I received a generic rejection and they didn't even bother sending me an email to tell me to check the portal.