googoomuck
Well-Known Member
I'm just trying to make myself feel better about not getting an invite so this post is totally insane rationalizing in my attempt to resolve my cognitive dissonance. It's all just BS I'm making up, none of it is fact. Humor me...or don't. Haha!
consider...
1. the program plans to take somewhere around 30 new students.
2. every student who gets admitted is interviewed.
3. not everybody who is interviewed gets admitted.
4. not everybody who is admitted accepts the offer.
all of this being true, we know there will be more than 30 interviews conducted. How many more, who can say. 50? 100? 31? The school must arrive at that figure each year. No sense worrying about that because we also don't know how many applicants there were since they are not required to register at the forum or contribute to the spreadsheet (darn!). Next...
Last year everybody got invited on 2/5 and then everybody (who posted it) got rejected on 2/6. Interviews took place between 2/24 and 3/10, a period of 2 weeks. This year invitations have been spread out over the week and were actually concentrated over the weekend, perhaps because everybody's in school during the week. Nobody has gotten a rejection yet. All interviews have been scheduled for the same week, between February 16-20. So, even though invitations have been sent over a longer period, interviews have actually been scheduled into a tighter time frame.
Unless they are planning to take in fewer students this year--which is valid and possible--I think there could be a second wave of interviews the week after next (2/28-3/5). BUT I MIGHT BE TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING...so I'm not getting too attached to this theory haha. Maybe they just don't want me.
All we can know for sure is that I went to a research university and have officially gone off the deep end!!!
consider...
1. the program plans to take somewhere around 30 new students.
2. every student who gets admitted is interviewed.
3. not everybody who is interviewed gets admitted.
4. not everybody who is admitted accepts the offer.
all of this being true, we know there will be more than 30 interviews conducted. How many more, who can say. 50? 100? 31? The school must arrive at that figure each year. No sense worrying about that because we also don't know how many applicants there were since they are not required to register at the forum or contribute to the spreadsheet (darn!). Next...
Last year everybody got invited on 2/5 and then everybody (who posted it) got rejected on 2/6. Interviews took place between 2/24 and 3/10, a period of 2 weeks. This year invitations have been spread out over the week and were actually concentrated over the weekend, perhaps because everybody's in school during the week. Nobody has gotten a rejection yet. All interviews have been scheduled for the same week, between February 16-20. So, even though invitations have been sent over a longer period, interviews have actually been scheduled into a tighter time frame.
Unless they are planning to take in fewer students this year--which is valid and possible--I think there could be a second wave of interviews the week after next (2/28-3/5). BUT I MIGHT BE TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING...so I'm not getting too attached to this theory haha. Maybe they just don't want me.
All we can know for sure is that I went to a research university and have officially gone off the deep end!!!