Fall 2010 general discussion

[fuzzylogician]

I haven't heard anything from anyone yet - but as far as I'm aware, it's several weeks too early for me to expect to hear even from the schools with the earliest deadlines. As to which schools have interviews, I imagine fuzzylogician would know.

AFAIK most programs don't have interviews.

Brown has an open-day/interview in late February. Notifications went out in late January (=the 29th).

I had a phone interview with UPenn; I don't know if they interview all applicants or just those who, while interesting, have no business applying there. The main question they asked me was "why here", to which I had no good answer. The professor I was interested in working with had just left, and the remaining faculty weren't a strong fit.

I had an interview with UCSC; this is probably only because I'm international and Cali funding is terrible. That was the main issue: they could only afford to accept one international, and could not reoffer the spot if that person declined. So basically they danced around asking "if we offered, would you accept?", which of course they can't flat out ask.

UMass, MIT, UCLA, NYU, Rutgers all accepted me without interview. I posted a timeline Also, the results from previous years were accurate almost to the day when I checked last year, and I'll bet it stays the same this year. It's probably too early to expect answers just yet.

Edited January 14, 2010 by fuzzylogician

[solairne]

AFAIK most programs don't have interviews.

Brown has an open-day/interview in late February. Notifications went out in late January (=the 29th).

I had a phone interview with UPenn; I don't know if they interview all applicants or just those who, while interesting, have no business applying there. The main question they asked me was "why here", to which I had no good answer. The professor I was interested in working with had just left, and the remaining faculty weren't a strong fit.

I had an interview with UCSC; this is probably only because I'm international and Cali funding is terrible. That was the main issue: they could only afford to accept one international, and could not reoffer the spot if that person declined. So basically they danced around asking "if we offered, would you accept?", which of course they can't flat out ask.

UMass, MIT, UCLA, NYU, Rutgers all accepted me without interview. I posted a timeline Also, the results from previous years were accurate almost to the day when I checked last year, and I'll bet it stays the same this year. It's probably too early to expect answers just yet.

You're so full of useful information. I love it.