Elysium,
I feel that it is perfecty appropriate to call the admissions office to see if anyone has cancelled their interview, and thus hopefully opening up an earlier interview day for you... Unless I am mistaken, you want to speak at Lynn Huckle, and the phone number to call is (888) 880-7336 if you are in California or (888) 887-7336 if you are outside of California.
I recommend that you call once a week, probably thursday or friday, around 1100am. I recommend thursday or friday becasue I think these would be the days an applicant would most likely call to cancell the following week's interview, I recommend 11AM because hopefully the admissions staff will have finished their morning activities, but havent yet began the projects that my continue through the afternoon, and I recommend only calling once a week because I got burned for doing otherwise. (I had been calling every thursday, but a person that I interviewed with at Western ended up cancelling his interview at touro on a friday... I called the admissions office hoping to be offered his spot, but when I called I was told that the earliest open interview spot was not until the day that I was already scheduled for. I don't think the fact that I made calls to the admissions office on consecutive days helped my cause at all... ugh... I was told that should an earlier date become available that I would be notified, an invitation that i whole heartedly welcomed with "I will drop whatever I am doing to interview at your school as soon as possible.. I live only an hour away and please do not hesitate to call or page me at your convienence." I have not initiated coorespondence to/gotten any correspondence from them since. I too have also noticed that people that were offered interviews after me scored interviews earlier than mine. I was selected into the interview pool on Dec 19 (and I should have called the office of admissions that day and scheduled my interview then and there), recieved my official interview invitation on January 7, and on that day was given my March 4th interview slot. I know that there have been applicants that were invited for interviews after January 7th, but scored interviews before March 4th... Although this disparity exists, I can't help but feel lucky and thankful that I scored an interview to my top choice school in the first place.... remember, 4000 people apply to Touro and only about 400 people get to interview... even if I got the last interview spot, at least 1600 other people would thumb wrestle me to death for it, right?...)
If you end up flying into Sacramento International airport, I would be more than happy to act as your shuttle to and from Touro...Also if you would like an evening before the interview stress relieving dinner, please just ask...
Please email me or hit me on AIM if you want to chit chat about TUCOM. Let me apologize ahead of time if I do not promptly respond to my emails, as my daughter, my bunny, Darwin passed away this evening, and my heart aches very much right now...
Brian Enriquez
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