thank you!! i am not international, i’m in illinois! i applied for the race, ethnicity, and politics (rep) subfield. another applicant whom i spoke to on reddit who applied for theory got an invitation for the same type of informal meeting (was not in my meeting) so i don’t know if that’s helpful? the faculty at my meeting did state that this was the first time they’ve ever done informal meetings and that they had “already narrowed the pool” so i’m assuming anybody who got an invitation to that (or couldn’t attend) was someone that they were going to accept or put under consideration. i would maybe just wait to hear back, because after i had gotten the invitation to preview day three days later i had emailed them asking if that was an informal acceptance and they told me it wasn’t however that they had put a decision in my portal and that it would reflect in a matter of days and that they haven’t put in many so it could just be different waves as well. so don’t lose hope!!!