Waiting for your US college acceptance letter is tough â¦ hereâs how to bide your time. For a lot of college-bound students, waiting for thick acceptance packages â or skinny rejection letters â from universities is the toughest part of the whole application process. The anxiety can become overwhelming as each day passes with no news.
Arriving 15 to 20 minutes before your scheduled interview is acceptable. Any more than that, and you may be sending the wrong message. Plus if you arrive too early, the staff may feel like they need to entertain you or continue offering you coffee, etc. They're trying to make a good impression too.
If you have done the previous 3 steps very speedily (April MCAT, early application, fast turn-around of secondaries), you will have interview invitations very early and will have the opportunity to interview during the first few weeks of the interview cycle, maybe the first week or even the first day interviews begin.