BiscuitStripes

It might have been the last day for people to accept/deny their admissions, and thus for people to get immediately off the wait list, but they take people off the wait list between now and when the program starts. There's going to be people who accept now, that get in elsewhere and then give up their seat. So it's still possible.

We ended up needing to make a question on the join page that was related to something in the offer letter (I think we used something like, what does the third bullet on your offer letter start with) or something like that. We didn't have that initially and we got TONS of spammers that joined and posted a bunch of trash. Just fyi. Congrats on the acceptance!

Yes, and it was through email/DocuSign.

Last year emails came out like 10-11 days after interviews, it was pretty quick.

They increased the cohort size from 45 to 55 starting with Cohort 2027 that started this past January. They're still probably interviewing 96 people like last year, so you've got good odds if you got an interview.

I think last year about 520 applied, 96 interviewed. They can accept a max of 55. While I know some people got off the waitlist, I don't know how many.

Congrats to those of you getting interviews, such an exciting time! Best of luck with your preparations and interviews!

Sure thing, it was my first group interview as well and I was concerned that people we're going to be shoving each other out of the way to make themselves look better. That didn't happen, as mentioned, it was structured very fairly and was really well structured.

Unfortunately I can't say much about the particulars, but if you get invited for an interview, they'll tell you generally what to study/how to prepare, and that should help out. I think the structure on how they do it makes it pretty fair.

They do their interviews in groups. There's two time slots on two different days. If you get invited to interview they'll likely ask your preferences of the four slots and then assign you to one of them. They're done in person not virtual.

Last year emails went out 4/12, I believe the year prior was similar time frame. I know last year they received 500+ applications that caused a slow down.

That's generally normal, you should only have to submit it to CAS.

Keep hope! Start date is still a ways away, and I'm sure people are still interviewing for other programs, a lot of interviews for other programs are up and coming this fall, which could cause some people to change programs. I think they left the cohort at 45 students.

No, but there's been more specific discussions in the Facebook group, you should join!

They gave us until June 22 to reply to the invite. They probably won't send out any more until after that date when they know how many people accept/decline from the first batch.