No news, bad news?

[Izakawa]

Hi guys,

It is already end of January and I did not any notification from the universities I applied for. Does this mean I am rejected? Is it possible to be invited for an interview in Febr/March/April?

[JDStat]

That depends. Does your department run a rolling admission, or do they have a set deadline for grad school applications? If rolling admission, it is typical to hear from the university after 6 to 8 weeks of application submission; if there is a stetted deadline, the department will only start to review the application after their deadlines. Like the place I applied to (UBC, SFU) had their application deadline at Jan 15th of this year - this means that they only just started to go through the application pile, so I would need to wait a bit more.

You should give us more information about yourself.

[Ciboney]

41 minutes ago, JDStat said:

That depends. Does your department run a rolling admission, or do they have a set deadline for grad school applications? If rolling admission, it is typical to hear from the university after 6 to 8 weeks of application submission; if there is a stetted deadline, the department will only start to review the application after their deadlines. Like the place I applied to (UBC, SFU) had their application deadline at Jan 15th of this year - this means that they only just started to go through the application pile, so I would need to wait a bit more.

You should give us more information about yourself.

I agree with JD. It depends on the deadlines, the faculty work ethics, the numbers of applications... Some of my applications' deadlines were in early-mid December. I already got a response. Yet others' deadlines were in early-mid January. I know in my field people get decisions notifications in late February to mid March very often. Some programs have interviews as part of the processes, which takes more time for decisions.

[Guest]

For all my applications the departments has set a deadline- 1st December. I have not heard from any of the programs,  a few of which I see people are updating decisions here for Fall 2019. Like clinical psychology program in GSU, I saw a few accepted and rejected status updated on grad cafe. Is this a cause for worry? I am applying for an integrated PhD directly after my bachelors so I am kind of scared. 

[yjkim192]

I'm curious do Universities also interview Masters application?

If so, is it common?

[PsyDuck90]

13 hours ago, yjkim192 said:

I'm curious do Universities also interview Masters application?

If so, is it common?

This is depends on the program and the field. Masters interviews are less common, especially if they are larger cohorts (30+ compared to like 5). 

[Ternwild]

On 1/20/2019 at 10:02 AM, Izakawa said:

Hi guys,

It is already end of January and I did not any notification from the universities I applied for. Does this mean I am rejected? Is it possible to be invited for an interview in Febr/March/April?

Being that I have experience over the last three cycles with rejection (30+ schools), unless you get a message saying you're waitlisted, after the first round of acceptances for your school/program come out, you can 98% guarantee you're rejected.  Time to move on and think of a back up.