I noticed on their site they keep having new application deadlines, with a “final” one on Feb. 9. I am wondering if they’re now holding off all decisions until after that deadline? Maybe they’re awaiting the state budget/federal aid? This is strange giving how this will be a smaller cohort than before.

Which I thought a bit strange because I thought it was all “rolling” admission. This is what the Fellows program told me when I asked what would happen if I was late due to any Metro North delays from the previous day’s snowstorm (I live in southern Westchester) and they said that while they could accomodate if that happened as long as I kept in good communication with them, that my chances of getting in were better if I made an effort to come now rather than postpone my interview into January because it’s rolling an all.

So who knows, I’m as much on pins and needles as you are. Keep in mind that getting in just guarantees the training program in the summer, technically it does not guarantee a teaching job. Most years everyone gets a job, but there was some issue this year because you have until January to get a position and about 10% of the fellows still didn’t have one, I think they now extended that until mid-February.

The site says that about 1 in 8 applicants will get in (now there’s some other section of that site that seems to show that 1 in 6 get offers, and about 2/3 of them accept). I don’t know what percent of applicants get interviews; I got one and my wife (who also applied) didn’t. Good luck.

I should add that, after an email from me asking a few question, I got a nice email from the folks at the NYC Teaching Fellows. They answered my questions and also informed me that I would be hearing some word by, and I quote, “mid-late January.”

I’m going to unilaterally decide that “mid-late” means somewhere between Jan 15th and Jan 25th.

We’ll see if I actually do hear from them.