Thank you for your respond. Since the U is starting their interview on the 10th already, how soon do you think they would start accepting students ( January?), since they don't have a rolling admission.
The U's acceptances are a little screwy, but this is how it works, to the best of my understanding.
Summary:
Around November to December a few people will be accepted and a bunch will be rejected. From December to April most people that hear anything will be rejected. Everyone else will hear the first week of April.
Full Text:
After you interview the interviewers do whatever it is that they do to score you and send this to the admissions committee
The admissions committee meets every week or two and looks at all of the information about each applicant that has completed the process to that point. They look at your applications, the interviewers comments, etc. and taking all of that into account they assign you a numerical score.
Here is where the no rolling admissions part comes in and where it gets a little frustrating for applicants.
Based on past experience the committee knows that people above a certain score will be eventually offered an acceptance and people below a certain score will not be offered an acceptance. Those people are either accepted or rejected generally sometime around November to December. This is a VERY SMALL MINORITY of the students that will be accepted at this time, and occasionally shortly after they interview between the months of January and April.
The MAJORITY of applicants scores fall somewhere in a middle no man's land. These applicants will not hear anything until all applicants have interviewed and the committee makes its final decisions. They will not hear anything until April of 2013. It does not matter how many times you call the admissions office you won't hear anything until then.
About the first week of April 2013 everyone who has not received notice to this point will receive a letter with an acceptance, an outright rejection or waitlisted.
Bonus information:
Many times the information in your online application portal will change well before you receive the letter notifying you of the change. For instance, I knew I had been accepted almost 10 days before I received the letter. All that happens is a new option shows up on the page where you login.
Some other schools send a large packet of information with the acceptance, the U does not. Acceptance letters are the same size/thickness as rejection letters so make sure you open and read the letter. I remember reading about a student a couple years ago who almost threw away his acceptance without opening it.
