Interview conflicts

[tuckbro]

Will asking for an alternate interview date hurt my chances of acceptance? They all seem to be the same weekend!

[thegirldetective]

Depends on the program. In some cases, they straight-up won't give you an alternate date. In other cases, they will happily set up an alternate weekend for you.

 

I don't think just *asking* about an alternate date will hurt you in most cases, but I'd proceed with caution. 

[iphi]

Happened to me: 3 the same day! They all staggered their invitations by a week, so I didn't even know about the others when I had accepted the first one. The second one was cool with me asking to reschedule, and the third did not like it at all, so I'm pretty sure I can expect a rejection from them. Honestly though, I feel like any school that can't "put on their big boy pants" and accept that probably isn't worth going to.

[tuckbro]

Same here, one was great about it and one was kinda weird about it. 

[legan]

This just happened to me last night. Of course, they are the two schools I'm most interested in. They're only about 30 minutes away from each other, and probably share the exact same applicant pool! One would imagine they would at least communicate about things like this.