<p>@ PipetteKid (Post #2168):</p>
<p>When people tell you that your resume would be stronger with MIT-Harvard than MIT-MIT, is it because you’d be going to grad school at a different institution from your undergrad, or is it because it’s… Harvard?</p>
<p>GCN2:
Congrats on your acceptances. I am so glad that the process is almost over 
and I will have a school to attend next year. I am sure I will see you and other CC people at Cornell next week. </p>
<p>Congrats to all of the CC-ers who got accepted and good luck with the upcoming interviews.</p>
<p>It’s better to get away from your undergrad for graduate school, if only to make new connections. Science is a lot about networking, and presumably you already know a decent number of faculty at your undergrad pretty well. You also definitely don’t want to continue in the same lab for your graduate degree-- it’s a good time to try something new. It’s also pretty boring to be required to take the same classes again.</p>
<p>I cannot believe it…I got an invite from Dartmouth MCB this morning. I thought they were done sending invites. What a pleasant surprise!</p>
<p>I just got the acceptance email from U Penn, I hope the rest of you are hearing good news too. It’ll be great to meet you all in NYC next week!</p>
<p>re whether Harvard-Mit makes for a stronger resume than MIT-MIT: what makes a strong resume is what you’ve done, so pick a place where you think you can best do it.</p>
<p>To the person asking about UChicago’s post interview acceptance rates. I’m an undergrad there and my professor told me 75%. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Accepted to MIT! I’m not sure I can breathe I’m so excited :-)</p>
<p>Did anybody interview at Duke for the DSCB program yet? I went on a separate weekend and wanted to see how everybody else felt about the program…</p>
<p>Thanks to all for the replies! </p>
<p>I just had a day of open house with Harvard BBS, and I DEFINITELY saw enough happy, well-balanced, non-competitive students and faculty to convince me that rumors are quite skewed when it comes to this place. In fact, once I got past that, I found that my thinking really cleared.</p>
<p>Honestly, pre-clinical/translational research excites me more than anything else, and even though I’ve never tried it, there’s a lot more opportunity to try it at Harvard Med than at MIT. If I find that it’s not for me, there’s dozens (hundreds?) of faculty doing basic research on almost any topic I could want. So I almost think I should go for what I love right now, especially with their enrichment program for translational research. At MIT, they’re really big on staying open-minded, because you might love ____ research and not know it, but…I feel like there’s room for me to pursue _____ research at Harvard if translational doesn’t work out; I can’t really explore translational so much at MIT. </p>
<p>Oh, and I found out I got into MIT today. There’s so much more emotional complexity stemming from my love for my home institution, but I think I should weigh the research options pretty heavily, no?</p>
<p>AHHHH <em>brain explodes</em> Sorry for the rambling.
:X</p>
<p>Pipettekid:</p>
<p>I absolutely love the BBS program and agree with whatever you wrote. You have over a thousand faculties to choose from for rotations haha…thats absolutely incredible. I actually brought up that “competitive blah blah…” rumors at the faculty dinner today and I was very convinced with their answers about where the rumors come from. And we got to have dinner with amazing people in science (Matthew Meselson for example from Meselson-Stahl experiment we studied for DNA replication models)</p>
<p>PM me who were you among those recruits I am sure I am going to see you tomorrow :)</p>
<p>has anyone that interviewed at the University of Chicago (Micro dept) heard back yet?</p>
<p>Just keep in mind that having so many faculty in a program is not necessarily, by itself, a good thing – you still have to choose 2-4 to rotate with, and only one whose lab you will join! </p>
<p>I won’t make it out to the dessert event tonight – husband’s sport is on the Olympics tonight – but I will definitely be there with my collaborator during the next BBS recruitment weekend.</p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>First post here. I interviewed at Berkeley MCB this past weekend and got my acceptance on Thursday! Quick turnaround… I loved the program and will probably be there in the fall. </p>
<p>Have Scripps, Princeton, Cornell Weill, and Rockefeller stopped sending out invites? I haven’t heard a word from them. Do they just silently reject you? </p>
<p>No big deal though… I’m going to CALI!!!</p>
<p>I got my acceptance to Columbia pharmacology program! I went for an interview there last week. Yaaaayyyyyy ~~~!! I am going to have some tough decision to make.</p>
<p>Princeton neuro is done for sure, I’m not sure about MolBio, but probably close to done if not done.</p>
<p>Suffering from HMS BBS recruitment withdrawal already. So awesome! :(</p>
<p>Anybody else fall in love with MIT? </p>
<p>So who else is coming out to Princeton Molecular Bio Interviews next weekend? I guess I’ll see you there. Hopefully there is no crazy snow storm. ;-)</p>
<p>Has anyone interviewing for Yale neuro gotten a list of their interviewers yet? I haven’t heard from them since setting up travel info a month ago.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about the post-interview acceptance rate at Wash U in St. louis?</p>