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The emotional roller coaster of reading that unexpectedly! "Graduate Admissions Penn Engineering" - Oh my god the decisions are in! "Good day and thank you for expressing interest in Graduate study in the Bioengineering, PhD. You are receiving this email because you have submitted an application for the Fall 2020 term." - Oh NO, I got rejected! " We will be holding online chats..." -Fucking hell I just got catfished by an email

When is the interview scheduled for, if you don't mind me asking? I am just wondering if perhaps they'll have two rounds (which might be suggested by an early interview time) or just the one. Either way I suppose there is still hope they send more invites... Congrats to you regardless!

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Also had a Skype interview, have you heard anything back yet? My PI didn't really mention much on the process, but everything you said lines up. I saw on the results page multiple people reported such Skype interviews from PIs not on their statement, which I found odd, did the same happen to you?

I saw the results page show someone got an interview invite from a PI reaching out directly (so ahead of the departments official invite). Not sure if they stuck to their 3rd Monday deadline. I haven't heard back, and I am also wondering if anyone did officially?

Anyone have any updates on UPenn? Here is what I have gathered to be the process thus far: Application committee reviewed all applications, made some kind of shortlist of applicants and sent that out to all faculty. Those faculty where instructed to Skype (pre-)interview their favorite candidates, and per the website about 15% will be invited to an onsite interview, where almost all will be extended offers. Now from the results tab, I gather people have heard from some professors, had their sky pre-interview, and then? Have people started getting formal onsite interview invitations? Also what's with all the results tab reports of PIs NOT mentioned in statement reaching out? That seems odd at the very least.

It is on the website, I just checked. (It's under the processing tab, subheading "Interview") Considering the 1st was a Wednesday, this is almost the farthest away a 3rd Monday can get. But also they did extend their deadline due to technical issues for a few days, so I am currently thinking of the 20th as a soft deadline. I am also assuming none/not many have gone out yet, as JHU is a very popular program and there is bound to be some GradCafe users in the mix. So maybe they will release over the weekend, or all on Monday, or sometime next week. I am keeping my hopes up, and wish you all the best of luck!