I haven't received an in-person interview invite from Iowa State yet, however, after my phone interview I was told to wait a week or two to hear back about what's next, which sounds promising. However, since I live in Iowa and go to school here, we had a big snow storm in the midwest during the past week that has apparently delayed things for some other midwest schools and there is an upcoming winter storm due to hit this weekend. So there is a chance that that could be impacting things as well. However, the graduate students in my research lab also told me that the length of time depends on the department figuring out funding and how many people they are able to invite to interview based off of the funding available and then do so accordingly. But seeing as it's listed on their website that in-persons should be conducted the last Friday of January and first Friday of February, I would assume that at the latest we should have an update by early next week.
