Interview Invite without email

[MrLahey]

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Will any school send interview invites just by changing your status and not sending an email?

 

[Local Native]

Neurotic much?

 

[Barcu]

Will any school send interview invites just by changing your status and not sending an email?

You'll get notfication, but sometimes you can find it online a days before you actually get word from the school. This happened to me at UIC.

I liked to check my status every so often, but it's not really necessary or something you need to do frequently.

 

[Catalystik]

Each year we see a post or two with, "OMG, I just checked my status page for the first time in ages and found I was offered an interview 3 weeks ago, and now the deadline to respond is past. What should I do?"

 

[MrLahey]

Neurotic much?

See Cats post...I think this is a legitimate worry

 

[sector9]

See Cats post...I think this is a legitimate worry

Worthy of starting two threads about it?

 

[Catalystik]

I think this is a legitimate worry

Will something prevent you from checking your status daily?.

 

[MrLahey]

Will something prevent you from checking your status daily?.

The volume of schools I applied to

 

[sector9]

The volume of schools I applied to

How about weekly?

I just set up a folder on my Firefox bookmarks with all the login pages for the various status update websites. It goes pretty fast to check all of them

 

[Kekeirda]

How about weekly?

I just set up a folder on my Firefox bookmarks with all the login pages for the various status update websites. It goes pretty fast to check all of them

good idea!

-goes and bookmarks all his pages

 

[isoquin]

This would seem counterproductive. I have not heard of any medical school inviting an applicant to an interview without directly and actively contacting them in some manner.

 

[Morsetlis]

Weekly is a good plan.

 

[NickNaylor]

I would check apps every week or so. It's not like it takes that long unless you're applying to a ton of schools. Just make it a routine... maybe every Sunday night you check all of your status pages to make sure you didn't miss anything.

Most (if not all) schools will send e-mails, but e-mails getting lost/sent to your spam folder seems to be a common occurrence.

 

[percy]

UChicago is notorious for this, I feel. I think there was some discussion some time ago about EDU email addresses not receiving e-mails and updates. I just happened to log in and find an interview invite waiting for me.

I created a spreadsheet with all the websites, usernames, and passwords of the schools I applied to. For about 30 schools it takes me only a few minutes to check my statuses. (You probably spend more time reading SDN, which will direct you toward which statuses to check in the first place...)