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I have been told by a PhD program coordinator that I am on a waitlist just to receive an interview invite. Should I assume this is just a nicer way of saying I won't be invited for an interview? They are doing Zoom interviews so my assumption is if they had any interest at all they would do the Zoom interview and just waitlist me after if they liked other candidates more.

NYU Sackler umbrella program, Yale experimental pathology - rejected; Johns Hopkins molecular medicine, UMB molecular medicine, URochester cell biology of disease, UVA BIMS, UMass Medical School GSBS - still waiting. It seems some people got interview offers in the past two years from a few of these programs as late as February 5-6th but I'm not necessarily going to get my hopes up because of that.

Looking for advice from those applying to/currently in biomedical PhD programs. I applied to 7 programs that fall generally within the scope of translational/biomedical sciences. I have received a rejection from 2 (which I pretty much expected; they are extremely competitive programs) and have not heard anything at all from the other five so, as of now, I am sitting with not even a single interview offer while it seems most of everyone else has at least a few upcoming interviews if not an acceptance or two already. My undergraduate PI as well both other professors who wrote my LORs tell me I should not be worried and that it's too early to assume my chances of getting interviews now are very low; however, as far as I can tell, all of the remaining 5 programs I applied to have already conducted one interview weekend and will conduct a second around mid-late February which leads me to believe that any offers for that second round of interviews would already have been extended - or at the latest would be extended in this last week of January. Any thoughts on whether I should assume my chances of receiving interviews are low (I started looking at Masters programs just in case) or is there actually still a good chance interview offers might come my way?