Oh, I def thought the 35 word section was just a little blurb for a bio - probably just wrote the most boring one they’re going to read lol
My 35 word section ended up being a value/goal statement. I definitely had a rough time writing it too lol
Good luck everyone! Keep us updated if you get a phone interview 
so it says phone interviews are the week of March 19 on the site… . I’m assuming we should hear this week about scheduling them? Hard to tell from previous years’ threads.
That thread was pretty confusing. Anyone have anymore info on this?
From what I’ve read from previous years it sounds like they don’t give you a whole lot of notice. Seems like no more than 2-3 days before interview and they will either contact you over email or phone to let you know you have been selected for a phone interview. Obviously they could do things differently this year though.
Every day that passes makes me more and more nervous that I won’t get a phone interview!!! ahhh!
Has anyone heard back yet??
Nooope. Maybe tomorrow’s the day? I’m also on EST so I guess I could get an email anytime this evening and it wouldn’t be outside of Point’s business hours. My Semifinalist email came pretty late in the day (and close to the end of their timeline)
I just reread the email. Though there is different language earlier in the email, the last section says “Semifinalists who receive phone interviews will be notified beginning March 18, 2018 on a rolling basis via email or a phone call to schedule a time.”
Interesting… I wonder how they picked that date or if that’s the real date since the 18th is a sunday and I would hope they’re not making staff review applications/schedule calls then
Let us know if you get a call!!!
The suspense is killliinnng meee
Freaking the flip out!!! I can’t see why they’d send stuff out on a Sunday other than maybe they want to start interviews on Monday?!? Does anyone know how many semi finalists there are? I know there were 27 inducted into the Class of 2017. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Good luck everyone!
WHERE IS MY EMAIL screams in gay
I got an email about two hours ago so I think they just started sending them
Anyone else reading over their essays again to decide if they were good enough? Haha
What did the email say?
^ yeah seriously. And, if I haven’t gotten an email by now, am I most likely not a finalist? They said they’d contact about interviews “starting March 18” but I’m not quite sure what that means.
got nothing over here, but i’m (a) a grad student and (b) doubtful that I am competitive for this