Is contacting an professor whom I am interested helpful to my admission? I contacted the professor I am interested in and actively appealed myself to the professor. The professor's response was positive, but the professor said she was not a member of the committee this year.
I am an international student. I applied to 20 schools this year because I expected competition to be as fierce as last year, but no interview requests have been made yet. So I'm very anxious and full of worries right now. None of the schools I applied for have released results yet, but I don't know how to control my own mind.
For the University of Maryland, January 20 was the deadline for applications. So it will take a considerable amount of time compared to other universities until the results come out.
At the same school, Is it possible scenario that one would be accepted with interview, but the other would be accepted without an interview? In other words, does the school that interviews have an interview with all potential primary candidates?