How worried should I be if I haven’t yet received an interview invite to my safety (a T15/T20)? I have already interviewed at 3 schools including my 2 top choices so I’m super happy about that, but not feeling super “safe” about not having heard from my safety yet because anything could happen with my targets?!!!

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Can't really comment without knowing the schools and when you applied. In general, though, I wouldn't worry too much. Even at the HSW/M7 level (assuming from context that's where your dream schools are), conversion of interviews to admissions is usually somewhere between 1 in 3 and 2 in 3, depending on the school; statistically, unless you're a terrible interviewee, odds are you'll land at least 1 of the 3 you've already had. in any case, it's out of your hands now.

One possibility to prepare yourself for, if you do want to over think, is that it's not unheard of for "safety" schools to reject candidates they think are set on and qualified for "better" schools, to protect their yield. It therefore wouldn't be shocking to see you get into your dream school but miss on a safety.

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This latter point is super valid. I got dinged at Yale and Fuqua and got into 3 M7s lol 🤦‍♀️ super stressful at the time but all worked out

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I haven’t heard back from a lot of schools I considered “safety” either

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I’d suggest not to worry about it. I got interviews with HW and got admits to W and other M7 while I got waitlisted without interview at T15 which was my safety school and I had put a lot of effort into the T15 app

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Which schools are your safeties?

Ahh sorry, didn’t apply there so I have no helpful info

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Which school? I applied to a lot of T20s and may be able to give some insight!

Cornell :/

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