Many Interviews Perceived as Positive or Negative?

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Does many interviews...

  • Increase your chances of an offer - you are desirable!

    Votes: 9 81.8%
  • Decreases your chances of an offer - you applied to (too) many places, so must be unfocused!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • They truly don't care... they just ask to make conversation

    Votes: 2 18.2%
  • Other (please explain!)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    11

luckyoceania

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In your opinion, if a potential supervisor knows that an applicant is attending many interviews, does this increase or decrease the chance that they will offer the applicant admission?
 
I think it'd largely depend upon where and to how many you applied.... I think people getting 5-6 interview invites out of a focused set of, say, 9 schools is very admirable (and would hardly appear "unfocused" seeing as 9 isn't that many to apply to AND you were invited to 2/3 of the schools you applied to -- which would show they all felt you were obviously at least a potential fit)... however, if you applied to 30+ schools and only got 3-5 interviews, that'd look pretty much like pure luck to me (and very UNfocused -- who applies to that many schools -- heck, I don't think there are that many schools that have a professor studying what I am studying...'though the Insider's Guide revealed 43 possible fits when I was looking)! -- you shot for the moon but the stars and planets -- heck even asteroids -- were okay too!
 
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