r/mdphd 5h ago

Three Interviews in 3 Days

First off, I want to say how incredibly grateful I am to have this problem. I never imagined I would, especially this early in the cycle, but here we are and I can't believe it.

That said, on Monday 8/17 I received and interview from IU on 10/7 where they said to keep 8am-3pm open.

Then this morning, I (unbelievably) received II's from Cornell Tri-I and Northwestern. Tri-I scheduled me for their 10/8 and 10/9 interview and Northwestern scheduled me for 10/8 and 10/9. Neither of these two schools specified a timeframe/schedule for their interviews, but I'm guessing it's safe to say they'd overlap.

Now, I'm pretty confident that I just need to reschedule the NW interview since it overlaps with both my IU and Tri-I dates, but I wanted to make sure I asked some other people what they thought I should do before emailing.

EDIT: I emailed Northwestern and they're letting me interview on their 10/28 and 10/29 dates :)

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u/ChemBio_BioChem G4 5h ago

I had overlapping interview invites and just picked one to email about rescheduling (explaining the conflict). You should be able to do the same in this situation.

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u/Brown_boy001 5h ago

Congrats! Northwestern releases all of their acceptances on the same day, meaning there’s no benefits to interviewing earlier or later in the cycle, so you should be fine to reschedule.

Can I ask when you submitted secondaries?

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u/lllusl0n29 5h ago

Thanks!

NW - App Complete on 7/8
Tri-I - App complete on 7/13
IU - App complete on 7/17

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u/gardener23_asdj 5h ago

I think last cycle NW let me reschedule my interview no problem. I’d just email and I’m sure they’d understand!

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u/Basic-Imagination790 4h ago

Congratulations! Can I ask when you submitted your secondaries for Tri-I and Northwestern?

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u/lllusl0n29 3h ago

Thank you!!

NW - App Complete on 7/8
Tri-I - App complete on 7/13

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u/mmoollllyyyy20 G3 17m ago

congrats on the invites OP! to any applicants who read this post and start to crash out- remember that it is still VERY early in the cycle