can you rush an interview invitation/rejection?

[jbravo12]

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I will be flying from Los Angeles to Boston for a Tufts interview in November. I've applied to a few schools on the east coast, but I haven't heard back from any yet. Since I am a broke college grad, I would like to save myself some $200-300 flights by combining interviews with some other east coast schools. Do you think it's possible to ask schools for a way to know if I will get an interview or not, sooner?

 

[tinman831]

Nope you're pretty much at the mercy of the schools.

 

[icedspice]

I remember I was trying to do this with some of my north eastern schools... and the lady on the phone (Columbia) seemed really nice. She had a stack of interview invites that needed to be sent out and she looked through them to see if I was in one of them.
What you COULD do: if you have invite for school A and think you have a high chance of invite at school B (but just later), then the best choice would be to give school A a heads up ---- If school B offers me an invite later, is it okay if I reschedule?

Ofcourse for the most part you are at their mercy like tinman said.. but there is no harm trying your luck. Dr. Mejia (from NYU) told us interviewees that she really has respect for us -- in this economy + being students.. to make a trip out so far just for a day is kind of crazy.

 

[KitKat09]

What you COULD do: if you have invite for school A and think you have a high chance of invite at school B (but just later), then the best choice would be to give school A a heads up ---- If school B offers me an invite later, is it okay if I reschedule?

and you might have high chance showing school A you really do not care about interviewing there...
several schools I have invites from clearly stated that interview dates are not to be rescheduled once they made....

 

[ramforte]

No it is not possible to rush their answers dear, if it was trust me you would not be the only one wanting to do this, and with even asking them for such a thing you run the risk of giving a bad impression, you need to do what everyone else does, wait until you get an interview on thier time, but they many schools give you an option of a few dates that you can choose and maybe you'll be able to arrange most of your interviews around the same time after they give you the dates.