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Yes, received the email a few days after the call.. helped reassure I wasn’t dreaming!
If you don't mind me asking, were you in the first or second half of December? (I was in first half and I was told mid to late January.)
Same boat. No news still:/
We must just be behind the cutoff for the January reply date. Suppose we have to wait until March!
It seems like the past couple of years, December interviewees have heard back at various points in February. I'm guessing some early December decisions might be released next week or the week after
Good to know. Thanks for the heads-up!
Yeah, no doubt. I'm right with you there.
You should be able to! The interview day doesn't end all that late, and SFO (if that's where you're flying from) isn't too far (about 30 minutes without traffic, maybe an hour with heavy traffic). Don't book your flight too early, but if you have one scheduled for 7:00 or so and leave after the end of the interview day, you should get to SFO with plenty of time to spare. Fair warning—this is assuming you're using Uber or some other taxi-type service. If you're trying to do it with public transit, I'd guess you'd still be safe scheduling a flight for 7:00 or so, but it's definitely a slower way to get there, particularly if you're unfamiliar with the Bay Area's variety of public transit systems (Caltrain and BART being the relevant ones here). Lyft hopefully shouldn't be more than about $30 from Stanford to SFO, in my experience at least (Uber can be significantly more expensive, especially considering surge pricing).
I'm glad public transit to SJC isn't too bad. I so rarely fly out of there that I'm never exactly sure how long it takes to get down there at various times of day/traffic densities.
Congrats!! Where on the portal?
You're MSTP right? Anyone regular MD have anything on their portal? My new portal doesn't even show any indication that I've interviewed anymore, also can't find the PDF of my app - anyone else?
Yeah, I just have the "Application Status" page, where it says that they've received my information and application fee and such.
Congratulations!
Seem like it's happened to most of us? Hopefully a prelude to decisions soon.
I don't want to agree, but I think you're right.
I gotta say, that is pretty sad to me. But I can’t say it’s altogether unexpected. I consider it an honor to have been in the running as long as I was.
Thank you so much!
For some reason I though Stanford was fairly anti-update in general. Did I misunderstand them at the interview or some such?
Another quote from interview day - "For some of you, it's been many months since you've sent in your application. If you've done something major - publish a paper, got a recommendation letter from a new experience - we want to hear from you!"
