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does a pre-interview hold at a mid-level school pretty much mean a rejection. Thanks for any info.
pre-interview hold==rejection??
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a lot of people will probably tell you no. you still have a chance. but the way i look at it is the same as a rejection because if i'm having this hard of a time getting the interview, how am i suppose to make it on the final cut after post-interview? i mean, the post-interview waitlist people are even ahead of me for admission. so i might as well just give up.
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I almost believe that there is another reason for a pre-interview hold. I was put on a pre-interview hold at Buffalo, which I'm still on. Being a NY resident and having very competitive stats with Buffalo, I figured that I would have a decent shot at getting an interview there, an idea further backed up by my getting interivews at the other 3 SUNY's, as well as other schools which are typically considered more competitive than Buffalo. An idea my advisor suggested to me is that perhaps Buffalo sees me using them as a backup school, and though they don't want to reject me, they're going to wait to interview me late in the season in the hopes that perhaps I'll widthdraw my application before they take the time of interviewing me. I don't know how true it might be, but it's another possibility of why you were put on a pre-interview hold, in which case you possibly have a good chance of eventually getting an interivew.
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I was on pre-interview hold at SUNY Buffalo and now I'm getting interviewed, so its not a rejection. I think they like to wait until all the applications are in so they can compare. I'm still on pre-interview hold at SUNY Upstate, but from what I heard they interview around 50% of the people from that list.
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I think that pre-interview hold can mean a few different things.
1) Things are out of the control in the admissions office and they need to put the breaks on the incoming applications.
2) It's the admissions office's way of saying "we haven't looked at your application yet" even though they've received it, marked it as completed, and gone off to lunch on your application fee.
3) The committee doesn't have enough applications processed to define what 'competitive' means for their school. They want to evaluate more application before deciding where you fit into the picture.
4) I'm convinced that some, although not all schools, just want to be mean and hand you a rejection letter in April (even though your application was complete in September).
Bottom line--If pre-interview hold meant rejection, I nobody would have a spring interview. Since this is obviously not the case, pre-interview holds are probably exactly that--pre-interview holds.
1) Things are out of the control in the admissions office and they need to put the breaks on the incoming applications.
2) It's the admissions office's way of saying "we haven't looked at your application yet" even though they've received it, marked it as completed, and gone off to lunch on your application fee.
3) The committee doesn't have enough applications processed to define what 'competitive' means for their school. They want to evaluate more application before deciding where you fit into the picture.
4) I'm convinced that some, although not all schools, just want to be mean and hand you a rejection letter in April (even though your application was complete in September).
Bottom line--If pre-interview hold meant rejection, I nobody would have a spring interview. Since this is obviously not the case, pre-interview holds are probably exactly that--pre-interview holds.
