~~#OFFICIAL "Interview Hiatus" 2008 PART 2#~~

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I would kill for an interview from a top school right now. Well, maybe not kill, just maim or cut.
Ditto... for an interview from any school really. 🙁 It's been 2.5 months since my last interview invite, but that was for a DO. My one and only MD interview invitation was sent nearly 4 MONTHS AGO!
 
WashU invite at 5 am this morning!!!! yay -- coming out of retirement!


CONGRATS!! that's a big get. thanks for posting on this thread. love the hope!~!!!
 
So I think there needs to be some amends to all the relativity stuff, time dialation occurs during near light speed travel as well as when you're waiting for emails from med schools. Cause honestly it has only been like two and a half weeks since I got my last invite, but it feels like a few years. Anyone else feel like this?
 
So I think there needs to be some amends to all the relativity stuff, time dialation occurs during near light speed travel as well as when you're waiting for emails from med schools. Cause honestly it has only been like two and a half weeks since I got my last invite, but it feels like a few years. Anyone else feel like this?

agree.

i got a few in the beginning. waited. then 2 more. waited. then one more about 2 weeks ago.

but it feels like i've been waiting ages. and the results from my interviews thus far are not what i'd hoped, so i feel like i need more options.

i do not think i am being greedy, just realistic.
 
agree.

i got a few in the beginning. waited. then 2 more. waited. then one more about 2 weeks ago.

but it feels like i've been waiting ages. and the results from my interviews thus far are not what i'd hoped, so i feel like i need more options.

i do not think i am being greedy, just realistic.

Getting an interview from a top 5 school isn't up to your expectations? +pity+
 
agree.

i got a few in the beginning. waited. then 2 more. waited. then one more about 2 weeks ago.

but it feels like i've been waiting ages. and the results from my interviews thus far are not what i'd hoped, so i feel like i need more options.

i do not think i am being greedy, just realistic.

I completely agree, you want to get as many as possible because it ups your chances of getting in somehwere! Sometimes it seems like this whole process is just waiting. You wait to get verified, you wait for interviews, you wait for acceptances, and if you're really unlucky you wait on waitlists! 🙁
 
Getting an interview from a top 5 school isn't up to your expectations? +pity+


i understand that reaction. my point is that interviews are just interviews and wait lists are just wait lists. at the end of this process, some one with one interview and one acceptance may end up at my dream school (whatever that is).

so the waiting and the hoping go on. we may not all be in the same boat, but we are afloat and drifting nevertheless.

(i so just made that up. luvit?)
 
i understand that reaction. my point is that interviews are just interviews and wait lists are just wait lists. at the end of this process, some one with one interview and one acceptance may end up at my dream school (whatever that is).

so the waiting and the hoping go on. we may not all be in the same boat, but we are afloat and drifting nevertheless.

(i so just made that up. luvit?)

Hey, you can do whatever you want. If we see you posting a Penn vs Yale thread in a few months, you'll probably hear it then, though.
 
Hey, you can do whatever you want. If we see you posting a Penn vs Yale thread in a few months, you'll probably hear it then, though.


i only wish. but i understand what you mean, totally. i am the first one to jump up and complain when lucky people whine on SDN. i am a hypocrite, what can i say.

congrats on Wisconsin, btw!!!

no comment on my cool boat metaphor?? i didn't get an "S" by accident, dude. only wish the schools gave a crap.
 
This thread gives me no MD love. Please, please, please send me interview invites. I want to be thankful on TURKEY DAY! 😀
 
2 interviews (scheduled in FEBRUARY! FXCK ME) a few weeks ago and nothing since.
 
Sick of hearing nothing...
 
There should be an AA group except for premed students on interview invite hiatus.
 
Just got out of retirement on Friday with an invite from Baylor! I'm still holding my breath for NYU...
 
the magic in this thread doesn't work, it has been 3 months since my last invite. Boooooooooo Thread.
 
Still holding my breath for NYU too. And Brown... And USC... or a few other reach schools...
 
I'm ready for another interview, come here :luck:
 
Thank you so much lucky thread! What I've been praying for... NYU! So excited!
 
Thank you so much lucky thread! What I've been praying for... NYU! So excited!
you are having a craaaazy few days! hey when were you complete at NYU? I've already kind of assumed rejection but there is a small part of me that holds on to hope just because i want to be in NY so bad
 
either Hiatus Thread Part 2 is luckier than Part 1, or all of our waiting is starting to pay off. I see quite a few interview invites posted her.

congrats. hope for all of us!!
 
you are having a craaaazy few days! hey when were you complete at NYU? I've already kind of assumed rejection but there is a small part of me that holds on to hope just because i want to be in NY so bad

I know! I'm starting to get worried about scheduling them all. I hope I don't get fired! But if I do.. eh.. 🙄

I submitted the application in mid-August but did not receive the "You are complete" e-mail until Sept. 26th (LORs went out late). So yes there is hope and I really hope you get an invite from NYU (and all the other NYC schools)!
 
I realized I have never posted on part 2 of this thread... what an oversight!
 
I was about to post here...then I checked my email and there was a Drexel interview waiting for me!
 
I know! I'm starting to get worried about scheduling them all. I hope I don't get fired! But if I do.. eh.. 🙄

I submitted the application in mid-August but did not receive the "You are complete" e-mail until Sept. 26th (LORs went out late). So yes there is hope and I really hope you get an invite from NYU (and all the other NYC schools)!
i worry about the whole getting fired for taking too much time off thing a lot too...they knew i'd be going on interviews before they hired me, but i think the last girl that had this job got 3ish interviews, and i've had a lot....
Should i worry that I was complete more than a month (about a month and a half) before all the people getting NYU interviews these days? I always tell people not to worry about these things, but the fact that they havent mailed out any rejections yet makes me think that maybe my app is on that pile waiting for that day when they do send them out.
 
i worry about the whole getting fired for taking too much time off thing a lot too...they knew i'd be going on interviews before they hired me, but i think the last girl that had this job got 3ish interviews, and i've had a lot....
Should i worry that I was complete more than a month (about a month and a half) before all the people getting NYU interviews these days? I always tell people not to worry about these things, but the fact that they havent mailed out any rejections yet makes me think that maybe my app is on that pile waiting for that day when they do send them out.

Isn't NYU one of those schools that sends out bulk rejections in the March timeframe? I seem to remember reading that somewhere...
 
Maybe the thread god could shoot me some more interviews this way.. I had my last scheduled one yesterday and am feeling kinda sad lol Here's to hoping...
 
Isn't NYU one of those schools that sends out bulk rejections in the March timeframe? I seem to remember reading that somewhere...
yes, yes they are...although i thought it was feb, maybe it is march. Either way, i'm pretty sure my app is already in that pile, and fairly unhappy about it. But as long as i haven't received the letter, i'm leaving some room for hope.
 
i worry about the whole getting fired for taking too much time off thing a lot too...they knew i'd be going on interviews before they hired me, but i think the last girl that had this job got 3ish interviews, and i've had a lot....
Should i worry that I was complete more than a month (about a month and a half) before all the people getting NYU interviews these days? I always tell people not to worry about these things, but the fact that they havent mailed out any rejections yet makes me think that maybe my app is on that pile waiting for that day when they do send them out.

time to storm the admissions office!
 
I want an MD interviewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
 
yes, yes they are...although i thought it was feb, maybe it is march. Either way, i'm pretty sure my app is already in that pile, and fairly unhappy about it. But as long as i haven't received the letter, i'm leaving some room for hope.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure mine is on that pile too. If that's the case, I kinda wish they would just put us out of our misery and reject us now!
 
I have zero interview so far. But ehm, the earliest date that my app was complete was 10/23.. the rest is between end of oct and last week (!). UCSF is not complete yet... though they have had all of my stuff for geez, 4 weeks now? I guess I shouldnt be complaining but I could use an invite right now.. right before thanksgiving... hopeful... 😀
 
Soooooo... After pushing 3 months with nothing I got my first interview at UCSD a couple days ago (my top/kinda a stretch school gets back to me first 😕). I'm really worried about my other schools though, the other 13ish of them haven't gotten back to me one way or another. I checked all the status websites and everything is on the up and up, but why the hell does the one school where I'm significantly under the averages hit me up first and all the others go MIA?

by the by, been lurking for a couple weeks now, first real post 😀
 
I know! I'm starting to get worried about scheduling them all. I hope I don't get fired! But if I do.. eh.. 🙄

I submitted the application in mid-August but did not receive the "You are complete" e-mail until Sept. 26th (LORs went out late). So yes there is hope and I really hope you get an invite from NYU (and all the other NYC schools)!
I want an invite from NYU and other NYC schools! *cries* (hey, it's been an emotional day)
 
I think some of the schools have forgotten about us...or worse lost our applications! 🙁 That's the only logical explanation I have at the moment.
 
I think some of the schools have forgotten about us...or worse lost our applications! 🙁 That's the only logical explanation I have at the moment.
Or, perhaps they've already made their decisions but just haven't started sending out rejections (or send them out in batches and they decided before the next batch was sent out). A sad thought, but it's possible. And, at the risk of sounding pessimistic (although it's realistic in my case, I think), probably the most likely scenario for me at most schools.
 
Or, perhaps they've already made their decisions but just haven't started sending out rejections (or send them out in batches and they decided before the next batch was sent out). A sad thought, but it's possible. And, at the risk of sounding pessimistic (although it's realistic in my case, I think), probably the most likely scenario for me at most schools.

orrrrrrrrr.....they're just saving the best for last 😀 I'm more a glass is half full type
 
It's been nearly 4 months since my only MD interview. It's hard to stay optimistic when it's been so long. I hope you're right though. I hope that my pessimism is proved unnecessary and that we both hear something good soon.
 
I feel like saying to hell with you all for making me wait so long, this is truly torturous and I am tired of it...this is like a day at the DMV streatched out over the course of a year ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
ok lucky thread part 2..gimme something to be thankful for...besides pumpkin PIE PIE PIE!!!
 
8 week hiatus turned into interview invites at Duke, Emory, and Harvard NP.

The other thread didn't help me any (invites came after it was retired), so I refuse to ask this one for good luck... But I d hope this is encouraging news to someone out there who thought it was over for them. Particularly if you applied late, it doesn't seem like there's any reason to despair yet.
 
8 week hiatus turned into interview invites at Duke, Emory, and Harvard NP.

The other thread didn't help me any (invites came after it was retired), so I refuse to ask this one for good luck... But I d hope this is encouraging news to someone out there who thought it was over for them. Particularly if you applied late, it doesn't seem like there's any reason to despair yet.
holy cow now that is a great collection of interviews!! congrats. may i ask when you were complete at harvard?
 
holy cow now that is a great collection of interviews!! congrats. may i ask when you were complete at harvard?
You most certainly may, but I think there's more to their order of invites than your completion date. I think they may go based on your secondary submission, instead of when they complete your letters, but it's just a theory of mine. I was marked complete 9/24, but submitted secondary around 9/10 and I was (probably) held up by a research prof's letter which came separate from my committee's. Hope this helps. 👍
 
You most certainly may, but I think there's more to their order of invites than your completion date. I think they may go based on your secondary submission, instead of when they complete your letters, but it's just a theory of mine. I was marked complete 9/24, but submitted secondary around 9/10 and I was (probably) held up by a research prof's letter which came separate from my committee's. Hope this helps. 👍
thanks! haha i kinda hope that's not true, but only because they had a lot of trouble with my letters, and for some reason i submitted my secondary in early august, my letters were available aug 10th, but i wasn't complete there until the middle/end of october i believe. So i feel like i have absolutely no idea when i'll be looked at. To add to that, the dean of admissions told us at an info session that they have one specific person who reads all of the princeton apps, so i'm sure that'll effect when i'm read too. I guess it doesn't really matter since i don't actually expect anything to come of it, but just curious.
 
thanks! haha i kinda hope that's not true, but only because they had a lot of trouble with my letters, and for some reason i submitted my secondary in early august, my letters were available aug 10th, but i wasn't complete there until the middle/end of october i believe. So i feel like i have absolutely no idea when i'll be looked at. To add to that, the dean of admissions told us at an info session that they have one specific person who reads all of the princeton apps, so i'm sure that'll effect when i'm read too. I guess it doesn't really matter since i don't actually expect anything to come of it, but just curious.
I only guess that because there have been a few people who have received interview invites before being marked complete.

Actually, now that I think about, I know 1 person was waiting on a letter which came separately from their committee packet (as I was), so it may be that they'll review your file after getting your committee packet but before receiving additional research letters. So being held up by a committee packet and being held up by an "extra" letter would get you different review dates? I hope that makes sense, my brain hurts just now. Really dislike airports.
 
Wow.. that was a short hiatus. Thanks lucky thread.. Dartmouth!
 
Its been 3 Weeks.... can i get another interview please!!! thank you magic thread
 
It's been 2 months for me... lucky thread part one didn't do the trick... c'mon, part 2! I need something to tell my parents by Christmas to stop them breathing down my neck 🙄
 
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