Scheduling interviews?

[4ophtho]

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What advice do you have for scheduling interviews:

1) Schedule as soon as you receive the invite and plan as you go?

2) Wait until you have a lot of invites and then form a strategy?

3) How do you gracefully reschedule an interview?

4) How do you gracefully cancel an interview altogether?

Any advice will be appreciated

 

[DKofLV]

What advice do you have for scheduling interviews:

1) Schedule as soon as you receive the invite and plan as you go?

2) Wait until you have a lot of invites and then form a strategy?

3) How do you gracefully reschedule an interview?

4) How do you gracefully cancel an interview altogether?

Any advice will be appreciated

1- schedule when you receive. Too late in the SAME day may fill the day you want (and in some programs, may fill ALL their spots)

2- do this if you really dont care about going on that interview...i.e. dont be stupid

3- i wouldnt bother. in reality this cant usually be done unless you know another candidate on a different day with whom you can switch (or if they REALLY want you then they might make this arrangement)

4- a very pleasant and complimentary email is usually enough "thank you so much for the opportunity to interview at ____, but unfortunately due to (costs/timing/scheduling/etc) I will be unable to attend. I am certain interviewing at ___ would be a true privilege, but at this time I unfortunately do not feel I will be able to do so." (or some crap along those lines)

advice: map out the dates of programs you want...and schedule the programs you're less interested in around those dates so that you dont fill the dates with conflicting interviews...i.e if you really want (for example) Duke and UCSF, then pay attention when scheduling 1 in case you get the other so you dont have to pick one over the other for simple schedulign conflicts