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Ditto, please! And congrats!

Seems like almost all of the interview weekends are Feb 7-9 or around then. Anyone else concerned about how they're going to schedule multiple interviews?

Who else got an interview invite for UIowa Social? Maybe we'll run into each other at interview weekend!

Nope, I'm from somewhere with a medium-sized Jewish community, but I've lived in places with such a small Jewish community that there's only one shul (and the ubiquitous Chabad) in the entire town.

Netflix and teaching myself a new language.

Anecdotal, but I've had a few people tell me that adcomms, during the initial runthrough if they're ditching apps below a cutoff, do tend to at least glance at the transcript and CV etc. to make sure they aren't ditching someone with a 289 GRE but a publication in Nature, for example. I think it couldn't hurt to call and ask about policies regarding slightly substandard scores with excellent other credentials, but I wouldn't give your name or ask for a personal exception. Just ask in the hypothetical.

Inspired by the "lesbian life" thread -- how have Jewish TGCers found the Jewish community in their cities to be? Is it significant or not? Wide variety of synagogues? Is there a JCC? (I'm not even going to ask if there's a Chabad because I already know the answer, haha.) Do people trend more Orthodox or more Reform/secular?

You can use the results search to get a good sense of when schools tend to send out interviews, but I would generally expect most schools send invites at some point during the month of January. Don't write it off as a wash! The month has only just started.

I applied to six Ph.D. programs, but they're all pretty competitive programs and my field's standard is more like 10-15 so I'm quite anxious. (The 7 in my sig is the NSF GRFP.) I tried to only apply places where I felt I was a good fit, would be happy, and stood a decent shot of being accepted, though. My Plan B is Avodah, Americorps, or Peace Corps and then reapply.

Honestly, though, I wouldn't want to spend my 20s any other way.

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Congrats! Chances of acceptance vary. Some places have interviews for people they plan to accept just to make sure they aren't crazy. Others use the interview as part of the admissions process and cut people post-interview. Most professors plan to accept 1 student per year, rarely 2, and sometimes they choose to admit no one at all. So if you go and there are, say, 5 people for your prof, you can reasonably infer a 17% chance ceteris paribus (this is including the possibility that they accept no one and does not take into account that most professors desire to admit a student from interview) or higher (if they admit more students than they anticipate accepting their offer). But ignore those very very specific probabilities because there are way too many variables at play here, as I hope all the disclaimers I used in the above example proved. Just do your best, do your research, and good luck! It's impossible to really say your chances, only that they are better than if you received no interview at all.

Okay, this one is a little unusual, but everything by this band unfailingly makes me feel calm and peaceful. I used to fall asleep listening to this in one of the lounges on my undergrad campus during exam week. Artist: Hanggai, a Chinese+Mongolian band that blends Mongolian throat-singing technique, Mongolian folk music, and rock.

You should be excited!! It sounds like you've really improved your application in just a short year's time. It's awesome to see success stories. (This is my second go as well, though only one neuro program; the rest are psych or interdisciplinary psych/neuro. Last time I, too, got zero interviews. This time I at least have one! )

Wow, impressive! Congratulations!

Whew, that's a relief. Duke's one of my top choices so I'm really hoping to get an interview there! Congrats on yours! Hope to see you that weekend. (Which days is it, btw?)

^ Congrats, dude!

Who got the Duke interviews? Was it a mass email, or personally from a POI, or...? (I'm assuming it was the Cog Neuro Admitting Program.)

Congratulations!! A good friend of mine, now a TT professor at an R1 university, had a child during dissertation phase of grad school. Both he and his wife graduated on time and got jobs at the same university (different fields). It can definitely be done! My friend and his wife have no regrets, I know.

I just laughed out loud in lab. Ugly whale noises.

What school is this, if I may ask?

No, unfortunately. And it's probably better to look for a school that is a good fit even if you have to wait a year than to apply to anywhere, fit or no fit, just because they have a late acceptance date. Esp. since you haven't narrowed down a subfield of interest yet.

I don't expect to hear anything until late December at the absolute earliest, so I'm trying to just chill (unless something shows up on results search). Results are mixed.