Interview Impressions 2015-2016

[repititionition]

As the interview season gets underway, it can be tough to remember your impressions and isolated facts about different programs. How about a thread for applicants this year and those in the future? The EM board does a great job of this and it'd be great to see it replicated here.

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[RapSeqInt]

This is already in the spreadsheet for the interview year.

 

[repititionition]

Yes, but a few problems:

1) it's buried. I follow the board closely and didn't know that this was in there, meaning that it probably gets few contributions and few readers
2) the spreadsheet design means that each program basically has one person's pro/con thoughts only
3) there is no possibility for discussion given the format of the spreadsheet

 

[Thepassageofgas]

Yes, but a few problems:

1) it's buried. I follow the board closely and didn't know that this was in there, meaning that it probably gets few contributions and few readers
2) the spreadsheet design means that each program basically has one person's pro/con thoughts only
3) there is no possibility for discussion given the format of the spreadsheet

Maybe you guys could post each persons' feedback in the pros and cons as a different color font within the sheet.

 

[by604]

Maybe you guys could post each persons' feedback in the pros and cons as a different color font within the sheet.

Or why not just a different column for each individual's experience?

 

[repititionition]

Without belaboring the point, it's much more likely that candidates in future years (and this one, for that matter) will find content on SDN rather than off-site, even if it's linked to from SDN.