longest wait for interview invites?

[absolutezero]

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[HollyJ]

I had one get here seven weeks after I was complete, and one 9 weeks after, although it turned out that that particular school had lost part of my application and didn't bother to let me know.

It is getting a little later in the process, but I wouldn't give up hope yet. A lot of schools still have four more months of interviews to give.

Good luck!

 

[PianoGirl04]

This is starting to worry me as well. Of the 4 schools I haven't heard from, I've been complete for 8 weeks at all except one, where I've been complete for over 7 weeks! The longest I've been complete is 9 1/2 weeks, and that's for my own school (Cornell)!

If anybody has heard anything good after this amount of time, please let us know. I don't want to sound ungrateful because I'm definitely grateful for the interviews I have, but it's the not knowing that kills me.

 

[TheFlash]

Speak of the devil. I was complete at UPitt for a long time (ergo, thought I was getting the boot). Then out of the blue last week, I received an interview invite through email. So when a school claims "Your file is being actively reviewed," they mean it!

Keep the faith guys,

TF

 

[DrWuStar]

i was starting to worry about this too, but then my dear friend who went through all this last year reminded me that she didn't receive her interview invite at her top choice school until mid-february, even though she was complete as soon as sugust MCAT scores came out... meaning she waited for close to 4 months after she was complete. her advice to me was don't worry about it and stop spending so much time on SDN!

 

[PianoGirl04]

So when schools tell us we'll hear about interviews or rejections in 6-8 weeks tops, are they just lying?

 

[absolutezero]

4 months..that's really good to hear. At this point I'm assigning meaning to everything that happens. I'm sure 90% of my worries are unnecessary. This application process has given me a severe case of OCD.

 

[BananaSplit]

Last year, UCSF sat on my application for 4 months too! Joy joy!
I got an interview for Feb.

So good news is still possible after 8 weeks.

 

[jlee9531]

last year my friend turned in his stuff pretty early and got a davis interview in march.

as long as they havent talked to you yet...it means they are giving your file multiple looks over a long period of time of course OR their rejection letter system is slow 😉

but from what i see schools send out those rejections pretty quick. so yeah

moral of the story...you can wait the whole 8 months.

 

[AlternateSome1]

I'm not sure of the truth in this, but I keep hearing "It takes a lot less time to write a rejection than it does to write an acceptance." Now, I know I received a couple of rejections very quickly and it took 4 weeks for one instate school to get back to me with an interview. Anyway, keep up hope, some schools are just slow.

~AS1~

 

[exmike]

There are people that wait their whole lives to get interviews (i.e. they never get one). so a couple months isnt that long to wait.

 

[spumoni620]

waited about 8 weeks for mayo's telephone interview. similar period for the penn interview (but they didn't start sending out invites until early this month).

 

[calebho501]

Northwestern tends to have a lot of people wait too.

THe ironic thing is that they give you such a short deadline to fill out secondaries and submit LOR's. Yet after your file is complete, they don't even tell you if your file is on hold or something.

 

[theDr.]

But isn't better to wait then to get a rejection letter. Either you'll get an interview or a rejection letter..right?

 

[calebho501]

Originally posted by theDr.
But isn't better to wait then to get a rejection letter. Either you'll get an interview or a rejection letter..right?

A Rejection will at least give me a closure 🙂

You ever heard that for a person who's missing for years and years, the family members may sometime wish that the cops will find that person's body and prove that the person is dead. It's not that they want their loved ones to die, but finding the bodies give the family members closure.

 

[essbe]

Originally posted by calebho501
A Rejection will at least give me a closure 🙂

Yeah, but this is closure in the sense that your lame ex-BF/GF dumps you by giving you The Big Fade, and you masochistically feel compelled to see him/her One Last Time, even though you KNOW it's over, and your best excuse is: "I need closure."

That kind of closure sux. (Not that I've had to deal with this before. 😉 )

 

[woolie]

I agree, the silence is sort of freaking me out too.

I applied to a lot of schools so not hearing from most of them is making me anxious. I have to stop reading SDN and start getting out in the new fallen snow and having a LIFE !!!

I need to buy some X-country skis and get going up into the canyons 😀

 

[PianoGirl04]

Originally posted by calebho501
A Rejection will at least give me a closure 🙂

You ever heard that for a person who's missing for years and years, the family members may sometime wish that the cops will find that person's body and prove that the person is dead. It's not that they want their loved ones to die, but finding the bodies give the family members closure.

Very true on the closure thing. I'd rather get rejected now than have to wait forever. But I don't think it's quite as grave as the missing person situation...

 

[absolutezero]

well, i got my first rejection today- U. Rochester. Seems like that forboding feeling I had that a bit too much time had passed since being complete was right. I'm sort of expecting a few more rejections over the next week. I can only guess that at most schools, past the 8 week mark they've probably had plenty of time to review my app. and consider offering an interview.

But I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised. This is such a tough process to figure out.

 

[PrincetonRocks]

Stanford took forever to send out a pre-interview rejection to me . It took Harvard over 2 months before sending out an invite for an interview. Duke, UCSD, and UCI are the best...they get back to you almost right away for interviews. Don't worry if you haven't been called yet...

 

[loomis]

many schools took over a month, some 2 months to get back to me. i too had gotten panicky over the lack of communication but I guess i was being too pessimistic. best of luck!