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hearing some rumblings that Stanford might, i mean might, send out a bunch of interview invites to qualified candidates before they break for winter vacation next week
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PhotoMD said:K everyone who has posted thus far is guaranteed an invite, right guys?. See you all in Palo Alto! Any further posters, I hope you should be so lucky as us!
boardchic said:Anyone know anything about those interview rumblings? Whether there's a batch on the way and/or whether a batch has already gone out...?
yep, nothing here...keep on waiting. still 4 days left!boardchic said:Anyone know anything about those interview rumblings? Whether there's a batch on the way and/or whether a batch has already gone out...?
but are they working on Christmas morning though? Berk is closed after the 23rd though ... so I would bet Stanford will not working on Dec 24UCLAstudent said:I'll bet that Stanford is just trying to be sweet to all of us antsy applicants by giving us our interview invites on Christmas morning.
faradayampere said:but are they working on Christmas morning though? Berk is closed after the 23rd though ... so I would bet Stanford will not working on Dec 24
wxl31 said:why d'ya have to rain on everyone's parade?
faradayampere said:come on ... getting invite on christmas morning is not realistic ... we have to face with the reality of life =)
Cat's Meow said:
LoveDoc said:look at his name...he can't live outside the scientific realm of realism
Yeah, I saw that too. You wouldn't happend to know how they send interview invites/rejections, would you (ie email or regular mail)? I'm starting to get very nervous.Long_John said:early signs there is some truth to those rumors. at least for the rejections
somebody received a rejection yesterday (posted on the rejection thread). more likely to follow.
means the adcom is finally getting to making decisions on applicants. hopefully they'll be able to send out some more decisions (interviews and rejections) before break so some of applicants can have some sort of resolution before a long break
invites through emailKhenon said:Yeah, I saw that too. You wouldn't happend to know how they send interview invites/rejections, would you (ie email or regular mail)? I'm starting to get very nervous.
Crap! I guess I know mine's in the mail then. I always get my letters a couple of days after other people get theirs. This will be my first post-secondary rejection. I think I'm going to cry.Long_John said:invites through email
rejections through regular mail. so probably that person who got rejected lives pretty close to the university so she found out earlier than others.
LoveDoc said:i was agreeing w/ u ...isn't faraday...a geeky name?
backatcha
CarleneM said:so based on other threads, it seems those holiday rumblings from stanford are rejections. i'm really scared to go home and check my mail now....
Cat's Meow said:I got a Stanford invitation invite today...JUST KIDDING!!!
I'm also afraid to check my mail...there might be some hate coming from Palo Alto since by application has been complete for about 4 months now
Ahh...who needs Stanford anyways
To all those waiting for love, .
UCLAstudent said:You scared me!
PhotoMD said:Is it just me or does it seem from anecdotal message board evidence that Stanford hasn't been sending much of anything in the way of invitations or rejections out at all?
faradayampere said:sorry ppl about the post on the other day =)
i'm scare now ...
should I check my mail??
PhotoMD said:Is it just me or does it seem from anecdotal message board evidence that Stanford hasn't been sending much of anything in the way of invitations or rejections out at all?
Cat's Meow said:I got a Stanford invitation invite today...JUST KIDDING!!!
I'm also afraid to check my mail...there might be some hate coming from Palo Alto since by application has been complete for about 4 months now
Ahh...who needs Stanford anyways
To all those waiting for love, .
Long_John said:hearing some rumblings that Stanford might, i mean might, send out a bunch of interview invites to qualified candidates before they break for winter vacation next week
Stay tuned
Long_John said:i guess those rumblings I was hearing were more about rejections then interview invites. already seen like 4 people on SDN get their rejection letters from Stanford in the last week. first people Stanford has rejected in this whole process.
Here's what I think is going on and this is pure speculation on my part. I think Stanford has considerably narrowed down their field for interview invites. They have probably narrowed it down to like only 1000-1500 applicants from the original 5000 they had. They've sent invites already to the absolute cream of the crop and just recently sent rejections to those that didnt make this original cut. When they get back in early Jan, they are going to narrow down the field considerably and start getting busy with those interview invites. This school is going to have to get very busy and aggressive with their interview schedule (I mean like interviewing 10-15 applicants a day from Jan to Feb) if they ever plan on being able to meet AAMC regulations regarding accepting enough students by March to at least fill the class. Additionally, you have to consider the lag in between interview invite and the actual interview. Usually around 2-3 weeks for most applicants because they need to clean up their schedule and make the appropriate arrangements.
Bottom line: Stanford is going to be very active when they come back from break
they have revamped their entire admissions process starting without screening pre-secondary. so basically they have twice as many secondaries to review plus they are placing a much greater emphasis on research experience in their applicants and supposedly they have abandoned rolling admissions in favor of non-rollingHaybrant said:do you think they are checking applications based on submission date? or is that not a factor for them? Also, is this how it was for them last year?
Haybrant said:seriously, now that you have gotten into ucsf stop posting; you're only playing with the emotions of those who have not heard anything yet, like me! and please stop using those clover leaves! The moderators should take away your option to use that...