sclerot_IC

I'm this exact situation. I got an email from my first choice of PI late December, phone interview the following week, and lab tour early this week. The PI (according to his grad students) generally does this with prospective students that receive offers, told me to await an email shortly at the end of the visit, and is definitely in a position to push my app through adcomm (tenured, best funded group in dept.), but I'm still in panic mode. Waiting on this email for the past few days has been absolute torture. My only solace is in knowing that the PI is probably just too busy to deal with admissions this week. They've got press activities and meetings with multiple federal funding agencies, so I can't imagine I'm all that high on their list of priorities.