Gir2214

Acceptance to UWashington BIME (no guaranteed financial assistance along with acceptance)

Thank you so much for all this information! I'll definitely be requesting some time off then

Yes, I interviewed with UCSD last Friday. I didn't receive the final interview schedule (who I'd be meeting with and when) until 7pm on Thursday night, but they sent out a rough schedule on Tuesday. It pretty much ran from 9am - 5pm so I'd expect to take the whole day off work. From 9- 11am there were research presentations / info sessions , then from 11-3 you had three, thirty minute one-on-one interviews with faculty. From 3-4 was a closing keynote speaker, and then the space was open to mingle with students and faculty afterward. They used gather.town, but faculty interviews were on individual zooms. Good luck next week! 

That's interesting that they hold such short interviews without a second round! I'm actually a domestic applicant so I don't think the interviews are separated between the two pools. 
And I also received an email from UCSD yesterday regarding a February interview -- I hope you did too or will shortly if if it different for international applicants!

yeah I got this too. And I think it's 4 people interviewing us? I assume they just want to make sure you can hold a conversation. There might be another phase of interviews?