[2020 Application Cycle]

17 hours ago, spacerox said:

Hi everyone! New here, but have been lurking for a while. I'm wondering what it means to be invited to a "visit weekend." The invites I have received (2) indicate that the admissions panel likes me (obviously) but are certainly not letters of admission. Are these weekends more like interviews or visits to convince me to attend or a combination of both? Any advice would be great

Congrats on your invitations! I was invited to my program of choice and have the same questions. Also, I had to fill out a survey to confirm my attendance to the visit day and it had me fill out which faculty members I want to visit with, so I was wondering if I should also reach out to them separately or is that unnecessary because they will find out via the survey data?

 

Advice is greatly appreciated!

[2020 Application Cycle]

Hi everyone! It's starting to get to that time of year where applications are beginning to close and admissions committees start deciding on the entirety of our future lives ?!! I am getting anxious and have been waiting for someone to start this thread, to no avail, so I decided heck with it, I'll start this! Good luck to everyone who is applying, may the force be with us all.

 

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