<p>@nutmeg1284</p>
<p>Wow!! well best of luck to all the interviewees. You’ll do great!</p>
<p>@biophys66</p>
<p>Congrats!!! That’s so exciting 
How did you get the news from Rockefeller?</p>
<p>Have anyone heard back from Mich PIBS after last recruitement weekend? I worry I am rejected after the interview…becauz they said they will notice my acceptance in early this week…</p>
<p>Expected rejection from Stanford in the mail, dated to Jan 25th.</p>
<p>Obviously not surprised and way too excited for my next interview to care.</p>
<p>Last year I interviewed at Hopkins School of Medicine’s Immunology and they were interviewing 15-20 for ~5 spots. Rochester was interviewing ~30 for ~7-8 spots. This year, Iowa told me they’re interviewing 20-25 for ~5-8 spots.</p>
<p>So no, I don’t think having a post-interview rate of below 50% is THAT unusual…</p>
<p>@kinase87: I believe Harvard’s acceptance rate is under 10%. BBS does not interview, and the post-acceptance matriculation rate is around 60%. Perhaps that is the number you were thinking of.</p>
<p>@minitwinkie: If a school has 5 spots, they typically accept 2-3 fold higher than their desired class size depending on matriculation rate. So my guess is that for the interview you cite, the acceptance rate is actually above 50% (although the matriculation rate is not)</p>
<p>minitwinkie:</p>
<p>The number of people who will enter the program is less than the number they actually accept. I think most programs have > 50% rate because they have to spend money interview these people and not everyone that is accepted will choose to go there. I have heard between 50-90% as acceptance rates, though I am sure there are plenty of schools that are outside those bounds.</p>
<p>^^^ But minitwinkie, the number of spots available isn’t the same as the number of acceptances. Even the top programs only get a yield of 60% or so because people who get into top programs often get into multiple top programs. Generally, programs will accept about twice as many as they expect to attend. Some programs triple the number. Each program knows the yield from previous years so they’re able to make educated guesses. </p>
<p>If only a small number of applicants are invited to interview, you can pretty much count on close to 100% post-interview acceptance. If the program hosts large or multiple weekends, you can guess that the acceptance rate post-interview is much lower. That said, a large program just below the top tier might have to host multiple weekends AND accept a high percentage because the adcom must take enough students to fill the program from a pool that may have a significant portion accepted by more prestigious programs; their yield might be much lower despite still being a strong choice.</p>
<p>Oops. Cross posted with MaceVindaloo.</p>
<p>columbia is accepting about 45% of its applicants this year, down from 60% last year</p>
<p>i think 60-70% is usually the norm for admittance rates for interviewers. as other posters have mentioned, there has been a significant increase in applicants this year without a commensurate increase in funding.</p>
<p>I wasn’t talking about acceptances, I was just saying how many they interviewed and how many spots they actually have funding for… sorry for confusion.</p>
<p>I just heard from the last of the schools I applied to, so I figured it was time for an update - (I applied to Microbiology programs at all of these schools, unless otherwise indicated).</p>
<p>Offered an interview: UC Berkeley, Harvard MCB, MIT, U Washington Seattle, Yale, U Chicago, Tufts Sackler</p>
<p>Accepted: Harvard BBS</p>
<p>Rejected: Stanford</p>
<p>@ microbial: I have interviews for microbiology programs at UW and Yale too. What weekends are you going?</p>
<p>@ microst: I’ll be at Yale this weekend, and at the second interview weekend in Seattle.</p>
<p>Is anyone attending BCM Molecular Virology/Microbiology interview?</p>
<p>@Microbial: Me too, I guess I’ll see you there!</p>
<p>@xiv21</p>
<p>Yes lol that was the number I was thinking of and it was a bad example haha</p>
<p>@cytometry</p>
<p>I had contacted the MCDB&G/BMBB office the week of Jan. 11th and they told me that they were a little bit behind, so they wouldn’t be letting applicants know until February. I had seen those dates as well, which is why I was wondering if anyone had heard back about an interview yet. The information was a little vague, so I don’t know if they aren’t letting anyone know or if they simply are waiting until some time this month to let rejected applicants know. I’m holding out hope that they’re changing the interview dates to accommodate a later notification period… :/</p>
<p>Does anyone know the acceptance % for interviews at Emory (Genetics and Molecular Biology) and Notre Dame Biology–CPD cluster?</p>
<p>I just got a phone call from WashU DBBS Biochem with an offer!!</p>