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I did too! Congrats guys! Hang in there, americar1. About the Graduate school thing, heard it is just a formality.

So I was looking into checking your admissions status online and UIC's graduate school page says "Applications referred to the department will be noted as such. You will also be able to see if your application has been referred to the Graduate College for additional review." Next to "Decision" my application says "Referred to College for Review." Does that mean the College of Nursing or the Graduate College? I know once you're approved by the College of Nursing they make a recommendation to the Graduate College for your admission, which almost all of the time goes through. What do y'all's say?

Not yet. I wonder if "mid-April" means today or sometime this week... Good luck!!

That's what I heard, too, mid-April.

So glad that interview is done! I agree though! It was very friendly. Eeek now we just have to wait. We hear by mid-April, right?

Thank you soni7! Very kind of you to fill us in :-)

Mine's a bit later on in the afternoon. Good luck!!

I have mine on March 10th, too! What time is yours, Vanngo?

I think the link on the signup page is just for the AGMS program, which I believe is included in the GEP curriculum (please correct me if I'm wrong) but also offered as a stand-alone program for RN's. I could get the sound on that one, but not on the GEP presentation sent in the body of the email. On another note- it's so amazing to hear from other people who are applying. You all sound really friendly! It makes me feel better to think of going into an interview with folks like you, who are hopeful and a bit nervous just like me :-) Good luck everyone!!!

Maybe if someone has their interview on Friday they can clue us in on how they structured it? I read once on a forum about a group interview in which each applicant had to write his or her answer down before reading it aloud and another where it was sort of round-robin, everyone got different questions.

So I called the admissions coordinator to ask about flying in versus Skyping (I live in D.C.) and I also asked him about the format of the interviews- they are indeed interviewing 4 of us at once. Which I guess probably makes it easier on us, so that's good :-) I wonder what they can really learn about a person when you divide 30 minutes by 4 people though, haha. Maybe the interviews aren't as important to them as the rest of our applications?

That makes sense! I couldn't get the sound either

Since there are 165ish interview slots and they extended the application deadline, I wonder if they only received that many applications this year for Chicago. Or else maybe they didn't extend interviews to a small number of people who didn't meet the requirements?

I bet you're right about the single room for 4 people and 2 listed rooms for 8 meaning group interviews, MME20. I agree with all of you, that seems pretty short for a group! Maybe it will be easier? haha who knows. Let us know how it goes soni7! Good luck!! Don't be too worried, I'm sure we are all nervous- you won't be alone in that! :-)

Oh gosh! I was imagining that the four spots per time slot were for interviews with four different interviewers and therefore individual. But I bet you're right!! That would make sense. I've never been in a group interview before, I wonder what they can possibly ask...