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  1. I believe BU has already made decisions on all incoming students. The faculty I spoke with suggested they have a school-wide finalization of their decisions, and offers have already been sent out.
  2. I don't really see what people currently do as a good argument for what I should do. If others might strengthen their applications from transferring, I'd encourage them to do so. If this started to cause a systemic issue of too many students transferring, then I think the field as a whole would need to reevaluate their admissions procedures to correct for that.
  3. I would be happy going to the lower ranked school. That's why I applied. I just think I might be even happier at the higher ranked school, and I think getting the Master's at the first school could improve my chances. To be honest, looking at the pre-docs, I'm worried I won't get in, and I might not hear back from them in time for the April 15th decision deadline. And I think it's rare for an applicant to know exactly what they're lacking. But surely a Master's (or a pre-doc) can help with the main things like research experience and letters of recommendation. If one has a low GRE score or something quantifiable, then that should be the focus.
  4. It looks like NYU's was due Dec 31st, the same time as PhD applications. I also couldn't find a deadline for WashU.
  5. Oh that's really interesting. I wish I had known about these earlier, since I think most of the deadlines have already passed. Thank you!
  6. Thanks for the useful input, everyone. Are there any links for these predoc programs? I'm not really finding them on Google except for one at NYU, which seems quite competitive.
  7. With application results coming in, what do people think is best to do if you get into a safety school, but not one of your top choices? Does it make sense to attend the safety, but re-apply to the top choice in future years? Or is that too much a risk of burning bridges because you will need to ask for LORs from the people at the safety school?
  8. That's unfortunate that they got your hopes up. You can't always trust GradCafe, but you also can't always rely on interviewer feedback. I think it's just the personality of some people to be complimentary, and often they do genuinely think you did a great job. But there are a lot of applicants who do a great job and aren't accepted. It's simply the nature of PhD admissions that they will have far more qualified applicants than they can accept. Point being, you probably were favorably evaluated and did very well in the interview. But it's still very hard to say if you will get an offer. You'll just have to deal with uncertainty a bit longer.
  9. For the folks discussing BU, that's just for quant marketing, right? Has anyone heard back from Strategy & Innovation?
  10. I'm not sure anyone can really say for sure. Most of these programs interview and accept small numbers of students, so it's usually not like economics or psychology where a cohort is 10+ people. If you have a connection at a university, such as a professor you've emailed with, you could try to check where they are in their process, but you do risk annoying them. Sorry not to be more helpful!
  11. Sorry to hear that. For what it's worth, I think people in general are really bad at guessing how an interview went. A lot of it has to do with the personality of the interviewer. Do they like to compliment the interviewee and provide encouragement to make them comfortable? Or do they just cut to the chase and want to get the interview done? Do they like interviewing and see it as an important part of the process? Or do they just want to check the box and not really care how it goes? If they don't ask you any questions, it's probably a more informal discussion designed to just give you the opportunity to learn more about their program. I've also heard they can be used just to check an applicant's English fluency, though I don't know if that's really true. It's also good that you overprepared! There are always a lot more possibilities than realities when it comes to interviewing. If you prepared more things to discuss and more questions to ask than you had the opportunity for, then it means you did a good job preparing enough material.
  12. Interesting. So maybe it's just a matter of low sample size, and 2019 might have had an unusually high number of applicants posting to GradCafe.
  13. Is it just me, or does it seem like programs haven't sent out as many notifications by now as they usually do? For OB/Management at Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Yale, and Chicago, looking at the results on Grad Cafe, there are no results reported yet they usually have been by now. Any ideas? Maybe some programs aren't interviewing this year?
  14. I think it's better to keep everything in one location, and that seems to be Grad Cafe. My bigger worry is that some people might not be posting to Grad Cafe, and with the smaller programs, it's hard to know if I've missed a wave of interviews.
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