Note to self: When I become an admissions officer, I will be kind enough to applicants to give them more than a 4 days notice that they will have to uproot their whole lives to interview 😡😡😡.
I nearly lost it this morning when I was invited for a Friday interview. 6 hours away is not close, people!
I don't know what to do. I really just have to start canceling interviews soon. Makes me sad 🙁
I know how you feel. I have an 8 day notice, but considering it is my alma mater, they know I will be on Campus, and I just have to walk to my interview, so it is not that bad...
I'm in Florida. I love my state schools. I love Emory. No one is giving me enough notice for any of this. No one. 🙁
PS. I like West Virginia, though 🙂 My dad was born there.
Hey, if I got Emory and got a 6 day notice, I would take it. If you want, I will gladly go to Emory for you...
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I guess...but I kind of want to go to some of these places. I'm so conflicted. And running out of money fast.
I'm so annoyed at the way this process works. I have to turn down interviews I would rather have taken because I just don't have the $$ any more.
I was forecasting <7 interviews. I have 11 right now. And I'm losing my mind. 7 I could pay for; 11 is ridiculous.
I know how you feel. I have spent $2518 on just flights so far, and I have a few interviews in November which I want to go to, but I am going broke...
In other news, Pitt was awesome... I kind of overslept and woke up at 7:45 and the interview was at 8:30, and I nicked my ear while shaving, and I was about 5 minutes late, and my hotel at first refused to drive me to the interview because it was outside the 2 mile radius, even though I reserved the hotel since they said they go within the 5 mile radius, so I had to bribe the shuttle driver, but it was $20 well spent, because he got me there almost on time even though we had left about 10 minutes before hand.
The interviews were awesome, because I had all of my reasons why I want to go to Pitt well articulated *I hope*, and my student interviewer was really nice.
The faculty interviewer and I got into a discussion about my research, and I basically had to defend it, like as if I was defending my dissertation, and she researched kidney epithelial cells while my research deals with liver epithelial cells, and how it turns cancerous, so that was pretty grueling, but it was also a lot of fun.
I also really liked the History of Medicine Optional Session, and I really wanna go to Pitt...