<p>I’m not worried at all about interviewing with principals. If you can make it through the admissions process, you obviously have what it takes. Give yourselves some credit! 
You are all highly capable, effective, and passionate people. Just like you’d tell your own students “YOU CAN DO THIS!” </p>
<p>Just hang in there until Thurs, and what’s meant to be will be.</p>
<p>@teach4them Great post! I love optimistic and upbeat individuals!</p>
<p>I’m so happy I’ve found this forum! I applied 1st DL and did my Final Interview on 10/18…Thursday can’t come fast enough!</p>
<p>@ MinorityDreamer </p>
<p>Thanks! I’ve been very up and down in terms of my feelings about my chances of being accepted. One day I feel like it’s in the bag, and the next I feel very inferior. So, I keep telling myself that over and over Lol. Either way it turns out I will be a teacher. I mean, that’s what I’m going to school for. I just really want to work for TFA. We’ll all figure it out in the end.</p>
<p>@ TFACLE</p>
<p>So I have a question about the timelines that you found. Since we are being notified this early, I wonder if our onboarding work will start immediately after we confirm our acceptance?? Thats what those documents made it sound like. Or… would it start in the spring like the last few deadlines? I’m just wondering, and if you don’t know, that’s ok. I’m just trying to figure out when all of the work would start.</p>
<p>@teachforthem
I think some of that stuff starts immeadiately. That was some of the sales pitch about applying early, you’d have more time to complete all of your onboarding.</p>
<p>We’ll all know very soon if were in! When we get notification on Thursday, do we find out our placement?</p>
<p>At this point the waiting game continues. However I’m not sure if it minimizes the angst or increases it knowing that they have already decided who is/isn’t accepted and are just deciding placements now.</p>
<p>On another note, interviewed 10/19, still no change in TF</p>
<p>Is it a good thing if they did not refer to your reference at all? What do you all think?</p>
<p>@teachforjoy I don’t think it’s necessarily a good or bad thing. They just contact your reference if they feel like they need additional information before deciding to offer you a placement. It’s probably dependent on how thorough your letters of recommendation were.</p>
<p>@ellevintage: you will know your grade level, subject, and city placement with your acceptance notification on Thursday. </p>
<p>@tkass87: I second that comment. It’s messing with my head that the decisions are already set in stone. They’ve already thrown my app in the reject pile, or they are deciding what the next two years of my life will look like… I hope it’s the latter!! Only 4 more days, thank goodness either way. </p>
<p>Anyone else planning to use Halloween as a reason to distract themselves Wednesday night? ;)</p>
<p>Andddd I’m another lurker coming out of hiding…</p>
<p>Did anyone put Seattle on their “preferred” not “highly preferred” list and NOT get invited to the supposedly mandatory webinar?</p>
<p>Also, did anyone else get an e-mail inviting them to apply for the November 2 deadline? That totally freaked me out. Imminent rejection? fail.</p>
<p>Thursday cannot come soon enough…</p>
<p>I think I’m getting more restless as the day gets closer! For the other notifications, I got the email around 2:00ish rather than after 6:00pm. Did anyone else get theirs earlier than what it said on the website?? </p>
<p>Ahhh!! We’re so close!</p>
<p>@TFAHopeful125 I also got mind around 2pm eastern time last time. Maybe the notifications will come early this time as well. Who knows though?! his is a mystery to all of us. haha</p>
<p>@TFAHopeful125 I also got my notification around 2 pm. I was hoping maybe they really liked us lol. But who knows.</p>
<p>I got my final interview notification around 2pm ET</p>
<p>I got mine at around 2 PM EST too (I’m on the west coast.) Guess I’ll be bringing my laptop to school on Thursday so I can obsessively keep checking!</p>
<p>What kind of backup plans do you guys have? I need to listen to the partner organizations webinar; those sounded like pretty cool options. Otherwise, it’s back to the grad school apps starting on Friday! Ackkkk.</p>
<p>For some reason I’ve never ever gotten an e-mail from Teach For America, other than to complete the post-interview surveys. The only reason why I found out I was invited to the final interview was because my recruiter had e-mailed me a congratulations.</p>
<p>@teachforjoy I was going to say maybe your email is wrong but then again, you’re getting all of your other TFA emails. </p>
<p>I also got all my other notifications earlier in the day than the stated time.
I have a manuscript that I have to submit for publishing and I have research to do Sooo that’s going to be taking up my time this week. No Halloween plans.</p>
<p>@pianopianopiano
I wil be continuing in my Doctoral program</p>
<p>Is anyone looking to be placed in NY?</p>