How do we want to handle the interview invite listings?

[Myuu]

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HumidBeing humbly requests that we sort this out on our own before dealing with the consequences of a largely unreadable (and unmanageable) megathread.

Would you like to:
A) Keep the interview invites in a single thread listing all interviews at all schools
B) Have an index thread that links to interview invite threads for individual schools
C) Have an index thread that links to the essay prompt threads, some of which already list interview invites
D) Other. Please indicate below.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

A, until it gets to big and you have to separate them alphabetically. I say we sticky it though.

 

[RSAgator]

I think that option A will definitely become less and less manageable as interview season hits full stride. I don't really see a need to have both secondary and interview invite threads (that's like what, almost 300 threads, a lot of which won't apply to most people?), so I think the secondary application threads would be a good place to toss interview invites.

 

[Myuu]

The poll-proper is now available for voting!

 

[ChubbyChaser]

I think that option A will definitely become less and less manageable as interview season hits full stride. I don't really see a need to have both secondary and interview invite threads (that's like what, almost 300 threads, a lot of which won't apply to most people?), so I think the secondary application threads would be a good place to toss interview invites.

No...we would have one thread with all schools...that way everyone can see which schools are inviting and which arent,without having to click through 100+ threads...we can just look through one.

 

[RSAgator]

No...we would have one thread with all schools...that way everyone can see which schools are inviting and which arent,without having to click through 100+ threads...we can just look through one.

True...I guess as long as it's easy to read A is a better option.

 

[Myuu]

True...I guess as long as it's easy to read A is a better option.

The only problem with that is that it doesn't stay readable for very long. Formatting's the first to go. After that, there names and dates start to make things hard to read.

 

[HumidBeing]

What they did last year was break it into 3 threads of schools starting A-H, I-S, and T-Z. The lists still became bulky, but not as badly as a single thread would have been. I suspect that 3 -5 sections might be easiest to navigate, but I'm abstaining from the vote.

 

[icarus8]

Last year's centralized threads are easy enough to read. That said, putting them in the secondary threads would also be nice, because then you only need to see whats going on at the schools you are applying to - limiting clutter and whatnot.

 

[Narmerguy]

Last year's centralized threads are easy enough to read. That said, putting them in the secondary threads would also be nice, because then you only need to see whats going on at the schools you are applying to - limiting clutter and whatnot.

I second that. I say we merge them with all their respective secondary threads.

 

[CancerKiller007]

I think we ought to have an "official 2008-2009 interview" thread which lists all the schools. You click on the school to go to the interview page for that particular school. I am aware that this will increase the workload but it will be the most easy to use.

May be we can find a few people who can each manage a few schools (I will take a few if we decide to use this route)!

 

[ChemGrad08]

I think we ought to have an "official 2008-2009 interview" thread which lists all the schools. You click on the school to go to the interview page for that particular school. I am aware that this will increase the workload but it will be the most easy to use.

May be we can find a few people who can each manage a few schools (I will take a few if we decide to use this route)!

How is that different from b?

 

[shemarty]

I'd personally be okay with keeping them on the secondary application pages, but on the other hand I think its nice to have a record of ALL the interviews from EVERY school in one central place. If not for us, then for next year's applicants to use as a timeline.

 

[CancerKiller007]

How is that different from b?

That is what i thought that option B meant, but I did not know for sure, so I wanted to clarify it!

 

[RSAgator]

I'd personally be okay with keeping them on the secondary application pages, but on the other hand I think its nice to have a record of ALL the interviews from EVERY school in one central place. If not for us, then for next year's applicants to use as a timeline.

I honestly think that people only care about interviews at the schools they're applying to though. Yale's timeline is irrelevant for harvard applicants (hypothetically...they're likely both the same people but that's a different story =P). As far as next year's students, I think that's something that can very easily be done after the interview season is over.

 

[shemarty]

Okay, so how about keeping track of the interview invites on the secondary threads, then at the end of the year, somebody (who?!.....me?) compiles it into one big page and posts it for future reference?

 

[Myuu]

Okay, so how about keeping track of the interview invites on the secondary threads, then at the end of the year, somebody (who?!.....me?) compiles it into one big page and posts it for future reference?

I wouldn't volunteer for that task, if I were you. It'd be too much to juggle!

...well, that and you don't really get the full picture until after August of the following year.

 

[azuldelcielo]

I think either B or C could work (especially for those who just want to view one school) as long as the index thread/the secondary app thread is stickied.

 

[shemarty]

Okay, I just edited a few secondary application threads to include Interview Invite and Interview dates. (Check Penn, Hopkins, Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, for example).

I figure the people who are going to the thread to post that they submitted a secondary will remember to come back to post that they got an interview.

It seems so redundant to have a separate interview thread and then ask people to post when they were complete (since that gives context for the interview invite date) when they've already posted that information on the secondary thread.

Anyway, I'm not opposed to having one giant interview invite thread, I just also thought it'd be nice to keep track of it on the school specific threads, so I added those slots, but I don't know whether people will actually fill it out or not.

 

[p30doc]

I applied to 36 MD programs and don't want to search through 36 individual threads just to see if they are inviting yet etc. I vote for A split up maybe into 3 threads by alphabetical order, as suggested previously.

 

[ErgDyneJoule]

I think it should be broken up into 3 - 5 threads. That way it's easier for people to applying to multiple schools to go through and not the huge mega-thread it would be otherwise.

It's probably best if it happens now, instead of trying to divide stuff up later...

 

[Isis24]

I think individual threads would not be the best idea because most importantly, we want to know what's happening at all the schools without having to search for one at a time. That way, when someone gets an invite, we'll know it right away because all of the invites will be in the same place. I guess 3-5 threads would work for that, then. What if we group them by geographical area? Would that be too complicated (i.e Northeast, Midwest, etc....)? I guess alphabetical would be fine.

Individual threads would be way too much work.

Next question....

What happens when we need to do acceptance threads?

 

[UVAbme2009]

We should just do what was done last year: use the current thread until the list becomes too long to enter. Then break them up evenly into three threads.