I'm no expert, but my suggestion would be to remain calm and continue as if nothing happened on December 1st.
The first day of acceptances is, in a logistical sense, pretty similar to the first round of interviews. Just because you don't get an interview the first day does not mean that you won't get one later in the cycle. The schools are going for the low hanging fruit right now (the students with exceptional scores, interviews, and applications). Most of those students will receive multiple offers, and they will subsequently turn them down. The top students can still only go to one school, so there will be a lot of movement on this first batch of acceptances. As the cycle progresses and schools are competing less for applicants who have subsequently fewer acceptances, only then will there be less movement, but that won't be until fairly late in the cycle.
If you didn't call schools because you did not receive a first round interview, then I would suggest that you also not call them because you did not get a first round acceptance. Any school which plays games (as a previous poster accused NYU of doing) may be a school you would want to reconsider anyway (IF that is true)...
I am still waiting to hear back from five schools I interviewed at, so believe me, I am also feeling that psychological itch to call them all and find out what's going on. But, I know that if I was their top pick, they would have been sure to contact me on December 1st. I also know that if I was their top pick, I would have been invited to their first interview dates, but I was not... The school I have an acceptance to is a school which invited me to their first round of interviews, so it makes sense that I would be more likely to get an acceptance there on December 1st.
The system
mostly works quite well, and if you had multiple interviews (4+), it is extremely unlikely that you won't get in somewhere this cycle.
@HookahLungs I don't know if we met on the interview circuit, but I wish you the best of luck. I saw your posts last year and am really hoping that you get in somewhere this time around!
One last word, at this point in the cycle, schools are trying to determine the disposition of your application. Whether you get a first round acceptance has less to do with your interview skills and more to do with your entire application (grades, ECs, DAT, research, etc.). Don't beat yourselves up just because you thought you nailed the interview and didn't get in somewhere this early!
