I'm still waiting on them as well. Did you read somewhere in the manual to call and check on your app if they haven't contacted you? If so, where? And if you called, what was the response?
I guess it's just a general internship rule-of-thumb - not in the McGuire materials. Although the materials do give a contact number. I haven't called yet, but I might.
This was an email from Greg Keilan on the intern network listserv:
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Hi Jessi,
I've always had, at best, mixed feelings about that Student Doctor thread, primarily because it tends to induce a ton of anxiety and false assumptions.
You should absolutely not make any assumptions about your status with a site until you've heard directly from that site. Can't tell you how many times I've heard from applicants about the assumptions that they've made that have turned out to be wrong.
My other issue with that SD thread is that, looking through it, it can make you feel like most sites have already sent out notifications. In fact, the sites listed there are not even close to a majority of the sites that are participating in the APPIC Match. So, before everyone on this list has a heart attack because they haven't heard much yet, let me state categorically that it is VERY EARLY FOR ANYONE TO BE HEARING BACK ON THEIR APPLICATIONS OR GETTING OFFERS FOR INTERVIEWS! Yes, some have already sent offers, but some application deadlines haven't even passed yet, much less have many sites had the opportunity to review materials and contact applicants to set up interviews.
So, if you haven't received any notification yet, or if you've heard only from a small number of sites, all that means is that you are one of 4,000 other applicants who also have not yet received any communication from sites and who feel like they are the only one in North America who hasn't heard anything.
Remember that each site that participates in the APPIC Match is required to list in their Directory information (and/or on their web site or other public materials) the date by which they have committed to notifying every applicant as to whether or not they are being interviewed. The purpose of that requirement is so you can know what to expect and when to expect it. Those are the dates that you should attend to, and you should not count on hearing anything prior to that date. APPIC recommends, but does NOT require, a December 15notification date, which some sites use and others don't. Check the APPIC Directory Online to be sure.
If you want to make yourself really anxious for no good reason, you can: (a) wonder how each site notifies applicants (alphabetically? by date the application was received? by astrological sign?, etc.) and how you will fit in that process, (b) start worrying two weeks before the "interview notification date" in the Directory about why you haven't heard anything and then assume it must be bad news, and (c) assume that if a classmate or someone on the SD thread hears from a site before you do, it means you're toast. All of these are tried and true methods of generating tons of anxiety while waiting to hear from sites.
Seriously, go by the dates in the Directory, and assume you'll hear at 11:59pm on those dates and not a moment earlier. Will some notify you days or even weeks earlier? Yes, and you can have that be a pleasant surprise, but many won't. One year, I sent out my notifications the evening of my interview notification date, and I was surprised how many applicants told me that they had assumed they weren't getting an interview because they hadn't heard anything from me (even though my notification date had not yet passed).
In the relatively infrequent event that you don't hear from a site by the end of that "interview notification date," you should call or e-mail the site the next morning to inquire about your status.
