this years interview thread vs last years

[crashblades]

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It seems like this year the thread is not as busy as last years. I wonder what is going on, is it because theres more applicants and its making it tougher for schools to decide or theres less people on the forum than last year?

 

[mmmsteakdinners]

what do you mean this years thread is not as busy?

 

[voager]

i think the question was the interviews are not coming more frequently as they were (at this time of the year ) last year. or people are not posting the invites on SDN.

 

[periopocket]

My honest guess is that many schools have reduced the number of invites they use to hand out, b/c they have realized they have always been left in excess...many schools have also started limiting seats for Canadians as well such as tufts...it all depends on the school...NYU seems to invite everyday, while others are more pulsating. I think some schools are also spending more time on review, so they know they have a strong interest in the applicant..

 

[mmmsteakdinners]

i think the question was the interviews are not coming more frequently as they were (at this time of the year ) last year. or people are not posting the invites on SDN.

my question was, what are you using as a measuring stick for this? For example, last year's **Official Interview/Acceptance Thread** was at 2,000 posts by 10/2/11 as compared to 1,000 posts at 10/2/12? just curious what you are using as a metric.

 

[mdb6476]

It may be that less people are posting because the predents website is down.

 

[crashblades]

my question was, what are you using as a measuring stick for this? For example, last year's **Official Interview/Acceptance Thread** was at 2,000 posts by 10/2/11 as compared to 1,000 posts at 10/2/12? just curious what you are using as a metric.

yea theres like 2x as much post last year so we can assume either theres 2x more interview or 2x more users compared to this year.

 

[Stacker]

yea theres like 2x as much post last year so we can assume either theres 2x more interview or 2x more users compared to this year.

No you cannot assume that. Last year, Predents.com was still up and running. Last year, you didn't have to continuously post updates in that thread. This year, the same people post multiple times because there is no other way to update your interview/acceptance/rejected status. This alone could account for the increase in the number of posts when compared to last year's. Last year, when we had Predents.com, we only had to post once and if people were curious, they would just simply click on your hyperlink and see what schools you've interviewed at and what schools accepted/rejected you.

 

[BlackThought]

My honest guess is that many schools have reduced the number of invites they use to hand out, b/c they have realized they have always been left in excess...many schools have also started limiting seats for Canadians as well such as tufts...it all depends on the school...NYU seems to invite everyday, while others are more pulsating. I think some schools are also spending more time on review, so they know they have a strong interest in the applicant..

Yea, tufts this year isn't accepting any international students including Canadians. It was a school for many years that Canadians aimed to get into, but not this cycle. I havn't even received an invite from NYU yet and I felt that I had a shot with gpa: 3.95 and aa:20. I think their full for pre-dec too. w/e

 

[jeffity]

Class of 2017 applicants just aren't as social as the Class of 2016 applicants.

 

[deleted487471]

Yea, tufts this year isn't accepting any international students including Canadians. It was a school for many years that Canadians aimed to get into, but not this cycle. I havn't even received an invite from NYU yet and I felt that I had a shot with gpa: 3.95 and aa:20. I think their full for pre-dec too. w/e

Actually, in the ADEA book, you can see that Tufts has taken ZERO Canadians the past 2 years (down from like 7 three years ago). There's a bunch of schools some Canadians think are friendly to them, with no basis to back it up. Off the top of my head: Temple, Columbia, Tufts, Maryland, Indiana (no idea why anyone would think these last 2 state schools would take Canadians).

Just gotta research harder before dumping hundreds down the toilet 🙂.

 

[sundaequeen]

No you cannot assume that. Last year, Predents.com was still up and running. Last year, you didn't have to continuously post updates in that thread. This year, the same people post multiple times because there is no other way to update your interview/acceptance/rejected status. This alone could account for the increase in the number of posts when compared to last year's. Last year, when we had Predents.com, we only had to post once and if people were curious, they would just simply click on your hyperlink and see what schools you've interviewed at and what schools accepted/rejected you.

So shouldn't there be more posts this year compared to last year? The OP is saying there's FEWER posts :S

 

[BlackThought]

Actually, in the ADEA book, you can see that Tufts has taken ZERO Canadians the past 2 years (down from like 7 three years ago). There's a bunch of schools some Canadians think are friendly to them, with no basis to back it up. Off the top of my head: Temple, Columbia, Tufts, Maryland, Indiana (no idea why anyone would think these last 2 state schools would take Canadians).

Just gotta research harder before dumping hundreds down the toilet 🙂.

Interesting. I haven't actually applied to Tufts though and the only one I applied to from the list is Temple. Haven't heard back yet. Maybe getting that book would have been a good idea.

 

[deleted487471]

Interesting. I haven't actually applied to Tufts though and the only one I applied to from the list is Temple. Haven't heard back yet. Maybe getting that book would have been a good idea.

Yeah, it's worth the $35. Anyways, there's still a lot of randomness to it (figuring out which schools will like you and which won't). Good luck with your applications.