Late interviews at non-rolling schools

[superdevil]

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lately i've been thinking about the impact of having a late interview. of course, we all know the stories of people interviewing late at rolling admissions schools who are just "interviewing for waitlist spots", but what about the non-rolling schools? technically, you wouldn't be interviewing for a waitlist spot, as they haven't necessarily accepted anyone yet (for instance; a feb interview when 'school x' doesn't issue decisions until mid-march), but do you think they kind of 'earmark' certain applicants who interviewed earlier for an accptance, and with that in mind, accept fewer of the late interviewees? i mean, realistically, if a school really wanted an applicant, they would have interviewed him/her in october, rather than jan/feb/march, right? does this make any difference?

also, if anyone has any success stories about late interviews at non-rolling schools that led to outright acceptances, feel free to post them!

thanks, all,

sd

 

[sockandmittens]

I know of at least two non-rolling schools that use a number system. So each person is evaluated, given a number and at the end, they list them, take a numerical cut off and there you go. So it won't matter when you interview.

However, I do think that schools may invite their most competative applicants first of a batch of applications all received around the same time. That said, all applicants invited to interview are competative.

I know a girl who interviewed in Feb at Pittsburgh and she is there now

 

[sunsweet]

do non-rolling schools make all the decisions after the end of their interview season-say feb or march? or do they make decisions periodically but just notify everyone together in feb/march?

 

[superdevil]

do non-rolling schools make all the decisions after the end of their interview season-say feb or march? or do they make decisions periodically but just notify everyone together in feb/march?

some probably do it one way, some the other. for what sockandmittens said, it sounds more like the former method. i wouldn't have any clue as to what schools do which method.

it seems to me like the the 'number system' would be the most logical way, and i know of some non-rolling schools that also do this.

anyone else?