Pushing Back Non-Rolling Interviews

[ImagineThis]

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Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to gain a little bit of a consensus (if there is such a thing on SDN) regarding pushing back non-rolling interviews. My interview schedule has been getting increasingly condensed in Oct/Nov and, although I technically have one week open in Nov where I can put my most recent interview (Duke, a school that I am very interested in), that would mean that I go to literally no classes for two weeks straight.

Ideally, I would like to push this back to the second week in December so I can more adequately prepare and not run into trouble with my classes. Given that I am genuinely very interested in this program, is this a bad idea? I know that they are "non-rolling" but does how early you interview in a "non-rolling" program have any effect at all?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Choculitis]

I'm interested to know this too. I can't imagine that it makes any difference.

 

[StoicJosher]

Definitely something I would be interested in knowing as well. I would ImagineThis (pun!) wouldn't be a problem but then again, what do I know?

 

[justgo]

I've already done this. Advice to me from folks later in the process/research advisors was that you should interview at personally lower ranked programs first and get your flow going for interviews. So I schedule a non-rolling very favorite program in December. October and November are filling up fast for me too and there is something to be said I think for being too tired to do your best at an interview....I think if they specifically say "non-rolling" that it will be fine.

Now, imagine you are the teacher of a class and have to miss those classes.....sigh, my students hate/love me.

 

[ImagineThis]

Now, imagine you are the teacher of a class and have to miss those classes.....sigh, my students hate/love me.

Wow... that must be impossible to deal with. Yeah, sure, they love when they get a substitute and can watch movies and stuff, but not being able to teach thursdays and fridays for like 2 months straight must be quite difficult on your part.

 

[justgo]

This is a university course, so no movies for them! I prepare the lectures and grad students/other lecturers deliver them.........I have to pay back with other less fun tasks like grading and other associated b*tch work. But I tell myself it will be worth it, and I am attempting to strategically schedule interviews. So far 7 interviews scheduled between October and December that require only 4 days of classes to be missed. So all in all ok.

 

[ImagineThis]

This is a university course, so no movies for them! I prepare the lectures and grad students/other lecturers deliver them.........I have to pay back with other less fun tasks like grading and other associated b*tch work. But I tell myself it will be worth it, and I am attempting to strategically schedule interviews. So far 7 interviews scheduled between October and December that require only 4 days of classes to be missed. So all in all ok.

That's quite impressive...I have 5 scheduled and I think I'm missing 5 days of classes and 2 exams. And sorry about undermining you there, I just naturally assumed it was TFA or something.

 

[justgo]

Didn't feel undermined at all. 🙂 The key may be that classes are consolidated on 3 days of the week. Its a 4 unit laboratory class that is associated with several upper div courses, so there is one day lecture, one day lab, and one day discussion each week. Its a weird class compared to other Unis, but really a great experience to teach it.

 

[justgo]

Related to this thread....is there any centralized list of schools that are rolling/non-rolling with respect to MSTP? Other than calling them all what options do I have? I am trying to schedule interviews intelligently and it's getting somewhat hard.

I'm interested in:
UC Irvine
UCSD
UCLA
UCSF (think it is not rolling for MSTP)
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
U of Pennsylvania
U of Washington
U of Pitt (I am 99% certain it is rolling and it doesn't really matter anyways since they release everything in December)

 

[ImagineThis]

Related to this thread....is there any centralized list of schools that are rolling/non-rolling with respect to MSTP? Other than calling them all what options do I have? I am trying to schedule interviews intelligently and it's getting somewhat hard.

I'm interested in:
UC Irvine
UCSD
UCLA
UCSF (think it is not rolling for MSTP)
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
U of Pennsylvania
U of Washington
U of Pitt (I am 99% certain it is rolling and it doesn't really matter anyways since they release everything in December)

Hopkins Says they are rolling but it seems like they wait a while to make their decisions.

UPenn and Harvard are Not Rolling.

Pit is Rolling. They make a decision within 6 weeks of your interview.

That's all I know, but to add to the list:

Vanderbilt is rolling.
Duke is Not Rolling (2nd week in Feb).
Einstein is Rolling.

 

[Choculitis]

UW is technically rolling (they notify you right after the interview), but I don't think it really matters because they only have 3 interview dates (similar to Cornell).

Yeah, I'd love to know what the deal is with Hopkins. I was only offered 3 dates in late Sept/early Oct, but I presume there are more. It would definitely help the stress factor if I got an acceptance there early on.

Other schools that I know of:
Rolling: Stanford, Mt Sinai, Emory
Not rolling: Yale, UCSF (strongly implied by web site: "Successful applicants are typically notified in March")

I couldnt find anything about LA and SD

 

[JustForPretend]

Chicago is rolling

 

[SBR249]

Not rolling: UCSD, UCSF, Columbia

 

[JustForPretend]

Based on the 2009-2010 acceptances in this forum, it seems like...

Rolling:
Case Western
Michigan
Pitt
Washington
Vanderbilt

Non-rolling:
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
UCLA
UCSD
Penn
Yale

 

[SBR249]

I feel like we need to collate this info in a form similar to the interview/rejection threads on this forum.

 

[justgo]

Based on the 2009-2010 acceptances in this forum, it seems like...

Rolling:
Case Western
Michigan
Pitt
Washington
Vanderbilt

Non-rolling:
Columbia
Duke
Harvard
UCLA
UCSD
Penn
Yale

Does "Washington" refer to U of Washington or Washington University St Louis?

I'm willing to take the lead on collating all the info from this season and coming up with a list of schools we think are/are not rolling to make into a sticky or something. For this season though I think we can just all post hodge podge in here as I doubt we can get accurate info before we go on a lot of these interviews. Expect PMs from yours truly if you get accepted places...te he.

This forum has already been hugely helpful for me as now I feel like my October and November are fine to stay as they are and I am already scheduling NR schools into January.

 

[JustForPretend]

Does "Washington" refer to U of Washington or Washington University St Louis?

University of Washington. In '09-'10, it looks like they had three or four interview dates and made offers within days of each date. However, each date was in January or later.

 

[SBR249]

University of Washington. In '09-'10, it looks like they had three or four interview dates and made offers within days of each date. However, each date was in January or later.

Yeah, their interviews are perennially on the late side of things. Their website used to say that interviews are friday/saturdays and they'd call you with a decision the monday after your interview weekend. Since they've removed that line (I think), I don't know if things have changed this year.

 

[justgo]

This year their dates are: Jan 5 - 7, 2012; Feb 16 - 18, 2012; Mar 1 - 3, 2012

Even later than before! But I would venture that it is likely the format has changed as there were earlier weekends last year I believe.

 

[Coffee Machine]

Anyone know if Colorado's MSTP is rolling or not?