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I have no idea how Princeton works. Do you know what kind of interview they're doing? (Eg: technical, behavioral, etc) Many schools interview internationals to test English fluency; not so many interview for aptitude. I know MIT inorganic (maybe other fields too, idk?) interviews a select portion of the applicants and then sends offers to about 50% of them. I don't know if this is normal though. Some bioE programs interview everyone who made it past a certain point to 1) make sure they know their stuff and didn't fake their research/application and 2) to screen out super socially incompatible people. Good luck!

I visited POIs at half of the schools I'm applying to. Most of the visits were really good; they gave good advice, and I really got to understand their research better. I'm thinking of sending them "Thank you for meeting with me; I just submitted an application" emails. I'm genuinely appreciative, and I definitely thanked them in person for letting me visit, but I haven't emailed any of them since (except for one guy whose group meetings I attended), and so I'm afraid sending those emails would come across as bad-taste, "Hey, please advocate for me :)" messages. Any thoughts?