Has anyone received any type of post-interview communications from U of Chicago's DR program? After my interview, I sent thank you notes to all my interviewers and also sent a letter of intent stating that I will rank them as my first choice. I thought that I performed reasonably well during my interview day and "clicked" with my interviewers, but not getting even a single response from them got me extremely worried. I would be grateful if people interviewed there could please share their experiences.
Has anyone received post-interview communciations from Univeristy of Chicago??
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I would not sweat it, some programs just don't do post-interview communications.
Don't have any personal experience from UC but when I interviewed a few years ago, I sent thank you's to all programs I interviewed at and got 0 responses. I got a generic response from the ranking you #1 email and no responses from the ranking you highly's.
One of the weirder things was a couple (just two) of post-match day communications that said they ranked me to match, please take this survey to help us figure out why you didn't match. For at least one of these programs, it may have affected my rank list (although it shouldn't) if they sent me a ranked to match email before rank lists were due.
Don't have any personal experience from UC but when I interviewed a few years ago, I sent thank you's to all programs I interviewed at and got 0 responses. I got a generic response from the ranking you #1 email and no responses from the ranking you highly's.
One of the weirder things was a couple (just two) of post-match day communications that said they ranked me to match, please take this survey to help us figure out why you didn't match. For at least one of these programs, it may have affected my rank list (although it shouldn't) if they sent me a ranked to match email before rank lists were due.
Concur with everything.
I never knew two programs ranked me to match until I got the post-match email survey as to why I didn't rank them higher.
I never knew two programs ranked me to match until I got the post-match email survey as to why I didn't rank them higher.
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This is for fellowship. I wrote my #1 program that they are #1, no response. #2 program PD called me to tell me that they are very interested a few days before the deadline of rank list.
I think sending someone a #1 without any response probably herald a lack of match just from an n = 1 experience
I think sending someone a #1 without any response probably herald a lack of match just from an n = 1 experience
My #1 told me I was ranked to match. My #2 was complete radio silence from interview date to match day. I matched at my #2. Dont believe anything anyone says, make decisions on your rank list based on where YOU want to go.
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There are two rules/truisms that would make everyone's life easier and makes sense logically, yet few can follow due to emotional investment in the match and lack of ability to stay logical:
1) Rank according to how much you want to go to the program. Don't try to analyze what post-interview contact means or let post-interview contact alter your rank list in any way. Don't get tempted to switch around your rank list depending on how receptive a program seems to be in post-interview contact; you're only gaming yourself and making an illogical mistake.
2) STOP PLAYING MIND GAMES WITH YOURSELF ABOUT POST-INTERVIEW COMMUNICATIONS. Post-interview communications and associated stress are to the most part a self-inflicted anxiety that vastly overplays how much the majority of program directors pay attention to them beyond thinking, "that's nice," then moving on and forgetting about it. If you send post-interview contact to a program with intent of using it to gauge their own interest in you, then you are being disingenuous with your thank you email. I've interviewed applicants and received thank you emails, and I never give them much thought beyond "that's nice," because there's always the underlying ulterior motive potentially lurking behind them of wanting to be ranked highly.
These repetitive posts about things that should not matter at all to your rank list and self-inflicted anxiety and stress with post-interview contact almost make me want to knock some sense into some people's heads.
1) Rank according to how much you want to go to the program. Don't try to analyze what post-interview contact means or let post-interview contact alter your rank list in any way. Don't get tempted to switch around your rank list depending on how receptive a program seems to be in post-interview contact; you're only gaming yourself and making an illogical mistake.
2) STOP PLAYING MIND GAMES WITH YOURSELF ABOUT POST-INTERVIEW COMMUNICATIONS. Post-interview communications and associated stress are to the most part a self-inflicted anxiety that vastly overplays how much the majority of program directors pay attention to them beyond thinking, "that's nice," then moving on and forgetting about it. If you send post-interview contact to a program with intent of using it to gauge their own interest in you, then you are being disingenuous with your thank you email. I've interviewed applicants and received thank you emails, and I never give them much thought beyond "that's nice," because there's always the underlying ulterior motive potentially lurking behind them of wanting to be ranked highly.
These repetitive posts about things that should not matter at all to your rank list and self-inflicted anxiety and stress with post-interview contact almost make me want to knock some sense into some people's heads.
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Wow, that's super unprofessional. What a bunch of jerks. I'm sure you got over it matching at your #2 but I bet you were confused/mad/sad on match day.
Nah I have no hard feelings. I guess I should mention the confounding factor that I was couples matching, so these things happen. Both of us were pretty confident of matching at the #1 given what was told to us, but we were still absolutely shocked to not match there.
