Psyhopeful

For my other interview, I was told in the invite that I would be staying in a hotel room with two other applicants. I think that’s probably normal when it comes to putting applicants up.

Yeah, my grad student host told me it’s not as stressful as it seems, that it’s mostly about seeing if I’m a good fit, but that was before she sent me the schedule! I have an exam the following Monday, and with the weather, I’m looking at 12 hour travel days on each side. I’m trying to get my vitamins, meds, and sleep in, but stressing about this is making it worse. Thank you for all of your responses. I’m trying to remember that I was invited because they want me to be the right fit, no one is hoping I’ll fail!

Holy crap you guys, I just got my schedule for my interview weekend this weekend and I have 8 interviews! Is this normal? I’m meeting with 4 grad students and 3 professors separately for 30 minutes each and my POI for an hour. All in one day! And did I mention I’m sick? ?

My interview is this weekend. I leave Thursday if the polar vortex lets me, and I’m sick! Serious head cold. I’m panicking. Not sure how I’m going to make it through and seem like an ideal candidate!

Are your other interviews a long way off? If they’re paying, haven’t the tickets been booked? I would say that if there’s enough time for them to get someone else to come, maybe decline. But personally I’m the type to be open minded. You don’t know what you want until you see it, and there’s always a chance you might discover you really like one of the other programs you’ve been invited to. My first interview is with my top choice, and my second is in a different field (same research topic) and a month later but I’m still planning on going even if I’m accepted to my first choice right away, because I want to see what they have to offer and if maybe it will be a good fit, or better environment.

Oh sorry, Virginia. I saw you already had gotten info for Brown and my brain just skipped a step!

Not sure what department you’re interested in, but I know that social and I believe developmental have gone out.

If anyone is wondering about the University of Michigan, they do not interview before making their decisions.

I applied to UCSB too! Are you going to the open house? I really wanted to apply to CU but the require a master’s. Good luck!

It looks like last year Stanford interview invites went out around February 7-9 with acceptances and rejections about a week later.

Okay, I leave for my interview weekend on Thursday and I’m kind of panicking because I’m sick! Like nose continuously running, exhausted, sore throat, mouth breathing, sneezing sick! I’m also full time in my last semester of undergrad with an hour long commute in blizzard conditions. I had planned to spend this week reading articles and preparing but I really need sleep if I’m going to beat this. And I’m worried I’m going to be miserable and make everyone else miserable at my interviews. Also, they’re having a fun dinner out Thursday night with the grad students from 7-9pm which is 10-midnight my time and I will have been traveling for like 8 hours at that point and I don’t know what to do. (Also this is my top choice program and only interview in this field! ?) Advice?

I did some searching the forums about this awhile ago, and I’m pretty sure that what previous applicants were saying is that Penn doesn’t interview.

I'm not sure why you're accusing @healthyanthro as a spammer? There appears to be five people that got interviews for HASTS from January 22-24 last year and the year before. I don't see anything questionable about their post. (Also, perhaps you are just feeling the stress of application season, but healthyanthro did not even appear to be "disagreeing" with you, instead they were doing what you asked and informing you of another school who has sent out invites.) Just because it's their first post to the forum doesn't mean they're a spammer. Everyone has a first post sometime , and this post about HASTS interviews appears entirely legitimate. In addition, @synthema also knows someone who received an invite.

UCLA’s interview weekend starts next Thursday, invites went out in mid-December. I feel like someone posted about Maryland, but maybe that was the clinical track. I haven’t seen anything about the rest, I don’t think.

I haven’t experienced this, but did you look at the text in your application checklist once you clicked on it? I know that Penn’s text was updated inside the checklist once my app went into “ready for review” status. I would email them if I were you and ask what you’re supposed to see. I hope it’s good news!

Thanks for posting this! Congratulations on getting in, too!

Not to get your hopes up, but I don’t see why this means you’re officially out. Was this your specific PI that admitted someone? You had more than one, did they both personally choose someone? If their applications don’t close until the 1st, then they are likely still reviewing. Some departments at my current school open in November and begin reviewing then and continue until the deadline in February. Students are admitted throughout that time and after. Some strong candidates may get in early, but others still get in later. Personally, from what I’ve seen here and in the results section, it’s not over until you get a formal rejection. I don’t want to add to your emotional roller coaster, but I’m just saying it doesn’t seem like you have no chance to me, especially if they’re still taking apps.

Tomorrow is Friday? It’s only noon on the East Coast of the US so you’ve got 5-8 hours today, depending on the school, plus all day tomorrow.

Not me. How interesting that it’s snail mail though. I just added a last minute application to Michigan State, anyone else apply there?

Does anyone know anything about the University of Washington? (Non-clinical) I’ve seen just one interview for developmental, one for cognitive, and one Skype interview for social about two weeks ago and that’s it. Their website makes it sound like they invite people to campus but I’m not sure if that’s after they’ve been admitted. It just seems like a low number of interviews for this time of year. Anyone heard anything?

Anyone hear anything more about Colorado Boulder? I'm wondering if the one invitation we saw here is it and maybe the rest just aren't on this forum. In the past they have sent out their invitations by now it seems. Same for the University of Washington, I'm wondering if they're done. I don't see much in the results from years past about interviews or prospective weekends at all.

I’m not going to say that social capital isn’t a huge help, but to keep those of us without it from feeling hopeless, I would just like to say that I have been invited to two interview weekends at two top programs that I have no connections to. I also am coming straight from undergrad. I think the main reason for this is my experience and most importantly research fit. I also had two strong letters of recommendation. And so far, the one school where my current mentor knew my POI has not come calling. So I really think that there is more to it than who you know.

Well, looking at the history in the results section and the invite that’s gone out, I think it’s time to cross Wisconsin off my list.

It’s my first cycle too, but I assume it’s all of the things tied to enrollment, like funding packages and getting official transcripts and everything needed to finalize the acceptance plus organizing any welcome events or whatever. There is a lot of information that needs to go out to the people admitted. They’re probably fielding a lot of questions too. Plus they will be tracking which offers were not accepted so they can admit waitlisted people, etc.

I got an invite to UCSB’s graduate open house! Anyone else going? It sounds amazing. So excited!