APPIC Interview Invitation Thread (2021)

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Official Site Name: Atlanta VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/9
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email (went to my junk mail folder - for the first time after a number of invitations that went to inbox from VAs)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Research tasks and a supportive adviser

Update: They likely have a second tier in place. The email says: "If you cannot arrange an interview on one of our available days (or choose not to interview here), please let me know as soon as possible so that I can offer your slot to someone else."
 
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Official Site Name: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Date Invitation Received: 12/9
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/7, 1/12, 1/13, 1/25
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Hot chocolate with lots of marshmellows
 
Another one just came in!

Official Site Name: Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/9
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal email (got sent to my spam)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): peds
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/11, 1/12, 1/18, 1/19
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate
 
clinpsychperson2016 said:
Official Site Name: Atlanta VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/9
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email (went to my junk mail folder - for the first time after a number of invitations that went to inbox from VAs)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Interview Dates Offered: 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Research tasks and a supportive adviser

Update: They likely have a second tier in place. The email says: "If you cannot arrange an interview on one of our available days (or choose not to interview here), please let me know as soon as possible so that I can offer your slot to someone else."
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When did this email arrive? If you don’t mind!
 
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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I feel you on this. I honestly don't know what is a good shot vs what's a reach. It's hard to figure out where I stand with other applicants or what raises my chances of getting a match I'll actually like.
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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Aunt Sue 100% agrees. I am fit to be tied this week!

(PS- "negative" reaction emojis to posts should be interpreted as directed toward the TDs/process, not the posters!)
 
Official Site Name: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/09/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): Mass email with name filled in
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult Track
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5, 1/11, 1/12, 1/18, 1/19
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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This process is so hard! I keep thinking back to the comments about the interviews and how sites have some sense of rankings before interviews, and I don’t know if that’s helping or making me MORE anxious. All said, this process really challenges one’s tolerance of uncertainty.
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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I agree. This week has felt harder than past ones, party because the waiting has gone on for so long and partly because it feels like it's coming down to the wire. I am tired, anxious, and have not had enough sleep. But!!! It's important to remember that negative spiral thoughts are usually not reflective of the entire reality. We will all get through this one way or another. Thank you for sharing how you're feeling, it makes me feel less alone. You have my support. Know that you're not suffering alone. I think most of us are half crazed at this point and having a hard time feeling confident
 
missplum said:
I agree. This week has felt harder than past ones, party because the waiting has gone on for so long and partly because it feels like it's coming down to the wire. I am tired, anxious, and have not had enough sleep. But!!! It's important to remember that negative spiral thoughts are usually not reflective of the entire reality. We will all get through this one way or another. Thank you for sharing how you're feeling, it makes me feel less alone. You have my support. Know that you're not suffering alone. I think most of us are half crazed at this point and having a hard time feeling confident
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I relate to all of this! This process has really tested my patience and my stress management skills 😂 😭 I just keep reminding myself that I have done all that I can do, and that's all I can ask of myself. Things will work out in the end, one way or another.
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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I feel this to my soul. What's left of it after this nightmare, anyway. 🙃
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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Why are you upset when you’ve still received invites from competitive sites?
 
Official Site Name: VCU UCS
Date Invitation Received: 12/9 @1:49pm
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: 1/5-1/12 (AM & PM slots)
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: MY FAMILY!! and this forum - greatly appreciate everyone's thoughtful responses

There are so many highs and lows during this process - it can be so emotionally draining. Sending everyone positive vibes! We got this!! 🌻🌻🌻
 
I know I am a highly-qualified applicant. But the amount of rejections are telling me otherwise...... And I keep thinking, what did I do wrong and what did I not do enough. But I already did my best. So, I will move on with my day because I have patients, families and colleagues who think that I am amazing 😉 I will still be disappointed, but I will be fine.
 
intern21 said:
A rant: I honestly hate this process. I have been wrong a lot, received invites from very competitive sites while being rejected from less competitive ones. I am starting to freak out and already thinking I will need to go to phase 2. I just wish they would not make us spiral like this. I’m very disappointed and upset today.
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I think I get the hatred. I think I have reached a place of not caring. Not excited, not stressed, not worried, not hopeful, I mean just flat out don't care. I've just redirected the overwhelming majority of my resources and attention to other tasks that are more engaging and just can't pretend to find this process interesting anymore. The process is too nonsensical and I don't know if that's worse this year or normative, but who cares either way?! Someone asked me for an update the other day and I think I seriously freaked them out by saying something like 'why would I be paying attention to that right now?' Its like its assumed that I'm supposed to be consumed by nothing else and I don't like that at all.
 
PsyDchick said:
I’m constantly teetering between compulsively checking my email and avoiding it for fear that it’ll be another rejection or to spare myself the frustration/impatience/annoyance of having no new emails.
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I second this and add: it should be ILLEGAL to send any emails unrelated to internship WHATSOEVER during this entire process. I turned off email notifications on my phone because I could feel my blood pressure skyrocket every time I got an email, and most of them were random emails from my program/department. 😫
 
PsyDchick said:
I’m constantly teetering between compulsively checking my email and avoiding it for fear that it’ll be another rejection or to spare myself the frustration/impatience/annoyance of having no new emails.
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I noticed that the earliest emails were coming in were at 3:30pm so I try to only look after that time. Even knowing that, I am still compulsively checking every half hour. Maybe it will help others more than it has helped me lol.
 
Official Site Name: Stony Brook CAPS
Date Invitation Received: 12/9/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: doodle poll: every day b/w 1/5/2021 and 1/15/2021

Official Site Name: Maimonides Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/9/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): n/a
Interview Dates Offered: can request top 2 dates between 12/22/2020 and 1/17/2021
 
SOSpsyd said:
I second this and add: it should be ILLEGAL to send any emails unrelated to internship WHATSOEVER during this entire process. I turned off email notifications on my phone because I could feel my blood pressure skyrocket every time I got an email, and most of them were random emails from my program/department. 😫
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RIGHT? I got mad mad after getting a mass email from a faculty member this morning. Like, if you don't got the goods, stay outta my dms!
 
Official Site Name: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date Invitation Received: 12/9/2020
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, Snapchat): personal e-mail
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Hillside Family of Agencies & Rochester Regional Health Child
Interview Dates Offered: doodle poll: 1/4, 1/8, & 1/11
(In honor of years past) If & How you're staying sane: Trying to get through the end of the semester by not refreshing my e-mail every 5 minutes 😵
 
FBOP Allenwood folx - has anyone tried calling the HR department as instructed on the OF-5 form to schedule an interview? I just did and the individual's voicemail box said he will not be back in the office until February. Did anyone else experience this? I'm not sure what to do now
 
inpursuitphdpsych said:
FBOP Allenwood folx - has anyone tried calling the HR department as instructed on the OF-5 form to schedule an interview? I just did and the individual's voicemail box said he will not be back in the office until February. Did anyone else experience this? I'm not sure what to do now
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Ah - I called again and he answered and said he wasn't sure why his voicemail says that, so all good!
 
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