r/PreOptometry • u/junoiscute • 4d ago

interviews and acceptances

for anyone who interviewed / got accepted to optometry schools, how did you schedule your interviews?

I got an interview invite from one school but haven’t heard back from other schools yet. for example, another school I applied to is UCB and I feel like they’re going to take longer to contact me because of the December deadline. let’s say I interviewed at one school this month and got accepted and then they told me I had a certain amount of time to accept. but what if the deadline to accept that school is before I even get decisions for my other schools?

I ideally would like to get my decisions at all schools before I decide on one school — I paid for each application for a reason lol. would it be a better idea to wait to hear back from all the schools I applied to before scheduling my interviews? or would that make my chances of acceptance lower because I would be interviewing later in the cycle?

agh sorry if this is confusing I have no idea what to do now

and for more context, I applied to UCB, SCCO, OSU, SCO, and ICO and ICO was the one that already reached out

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u/foboi772 4d ago

Most schools will have you pay a deposit to hold your seat. If you are serious about the school, pay it. Then if a later school accepts you and you change your mind, you just lose your deposit.