For those of you who want something more to obsess about/plan around, here are the Fall interview dates. There will be more in spring.
Disclaimer: The process has changed a little since last year, this is based on my experience last year. It is highly unlikely they massively deviated from this (we are doing all 3 days of interviews/week instead of 4) but take this with a grain of salt.
Interviews/ranking works like this:
At the end of an interview week (Wednesday) everyone who interviewed is presented to the full board by one/both of your interviewers. After they make their case for you, the committee scores you and you are ranked on the list of applicants. This repeats each week until the end of the month. At the end of each month admissions will send out acceptances to the top 3-5 people on the list. The next month, the process continues, so new people are added onto the list and your relative rank is adjusted depending on whether people are ranked higher/lower than you.
This process continues until ~February. At that point, admissions looks at how many open seats are left (based on the variable # they accept each month) and sends out invites to that many people. So if there are 70 open seats in February, the top 70 people in the ranking are sent invites. The wait list is equal in size to the class size (128). If you are wait listed you can ask what "third" of the list you are in. Historically the 1st third "always" gets invites and usually the 2nd third gets them as well. If you're in the bottom third your odds are less.
Good luck all.
Mon, Oct 2
Tues, Oct 3
Wed, Oct 4
Mon, Oct 9
Tues, Oct 10
Wed, Oct 11
Mon, Oct 16
Tues, Oct 17
Wed, Oct 18
Mon, Oct 23
Tues, Oct 24
Wed, Oct 25
Mon, Oct 30
Tues, Oct 31
Wed, Nov 1
Mon, Nov 6
Tues, Nov 7
Wed, Nov 8
Mon, Nov 13
Tues, Nov 14
Wed, Nov 15
Mon, Nov 20
Tues, Nov 21
Mon, Nov 27
Tues, Nov 28
Wed, Nov 29
Mon, Dec 11
Tues, Dec 12
Wed, Dec 13
Mon, Dec 18
Tues, Dec 19
Wed, Dec 20