I also interviewed on valentines 🙂 You should definitely send an update before the next time they meet if it's substantial! I sent an update before I got the interview invite so that might've helped me. If I get waitlisted I definitely intend on sending an LOI as well though. Best of luck!
It does not! That portion is totally optional
No, many people get interviews before completing the scholarly concentrations. You are still able to complete them post II
I did not! It came completely out of the blue!
About less than 70% of the acceptances have been handed out right now, there is still 2 more months where they will continually review you before we turn WL.
Where are you sourcing the <70% figure from? Did they state this officially?
It's rests on a major assumption on my part, I should have qualified that. Since they're not rolling, I figured each time they get together they're accepting about as much people each month to "pace their acceptances" as they have stated on their site. They start sending As starting October and this goes thru April (7 months). So now February admissions is here, month 5, so 5/7, around 70%, assuming their acceptances rate each month is the same. I only say it could be less than 70% because they accept people during the waitlist. This is all pseudoscientific though.
clinging onto this lol
Thank you for the perspective! I was all over the place in the moment, but now that I've had some time, I realize a DD/WL here is a far better situation than at other schools. All I can do now is send a LOI and hope that, if it does come down to the waitlist, many will be granted admission from it like last year's cycle. Congrats again to all the accepted, and wishing the best for my fellow DD applicants!
+1, submitted mid august
Congrats!!! I guess that answers my question haha
wondering the same! its been silence for me since January
Same for me
Yeah a colleague of mine interviewed for MSTP early December and heard back 2 weeks later
I would reach out to them. Did they reply to your update? I just interviewed in Feb and they said they’d try to get back to us within 2 weeks.
They gave the same 2-week timeline during my interview in late January, but they have still just been silent
Love it lol. I'm not holding my breath but just fwiw Janine acknowledged that they needed to get initial decisions out asap as it's getting late in the cycle
Anecdotally I know someone last year who Interviewed late feb and still got her first choice Chicago. If your first choice is Chicago there probably is smaller odds later on in the cycle but idk how significantly
If you don’t mind, could you share your interview date?
They are finishing up Interviews this month. I reached out yesterday since I haven't heard anything since August and they said the cycle is coming to an end as march is the last batch of interviews.
Well there is a new director of admissions as the one from previous years moved to Vermont I believe.
People always talk about being a California applicant is rough but I think Illinois is pretty tough as well 😳. It's definitely better than a state that has no in-state school. I will say there definitely is reporting bias my interview date about 70-80% of the interviewers said they were from Illinois /zooming in from Illinois.
I second this. On my interview day almost 75% of the people were from Illinois 😭
