<p>Biodude, just wondering: when did you submit your apps to Duke and Yale? Also, what tracks/programs did you apply to?</p>
<p>Also, lji2048, how early did you turn in your apps to Scripps?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Duke I think I submitted around Dec 5 and I heard from them Dec 16, Yale I submitted on the very last day, Dec 5, I believe since they extended the deadline and I just heard from them Dec 22. </p>
<p>I applied first choice MCGD and second choice Microbiology at Yale and I got the interview for MCGD. CMB at Duke. My research interest is virology.</p>
<p>scripps I submitted pretty late, I think barely around the deadline, it was like 11/30 or 12/1 US time.</p>
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Not a stupid question – it gets asked every year.</p>
<p>There’s no need to wear a suit, and you probably won’t see many people in suits after the first interview weekend, but you certainly can wear one if you want to. It’s all about wearing an outfit that makes you feel comfortable and professional – if that’s khakis and a collared shirt, great, but if that’s jeans and a sweater, that’s fine, too. </p>
<p>You probably don’t want to go too casual – you want to show that you care about the image you put forth when you’re interviewing – but as one of my undergrad professors said, you also don’t want to look “like you’re going to your grandmother’s funeral.” Think about what most of your undergrad professors wear on a daily basis – they are usually not really fancy people.</p>
<p>I’m a girl, and I had two interview outfits: a skirt and sweater outfit and a khakis and sweater outfit. This is a notch up from the way I usually dress, so it made me feel professional, but not too formal.</p>
<p>Since Princeton requires midyear reports, I wonder if the offering of interviews is contingent on receipt of your Fall grades…</p>
<p>why do they require midyear grades? that’s dumb…</p>
<p>Kryptonsa, I’m pretty sure that Princeton will not wait for the grades before they issue invitations. After all, invitations should be issued in the next couple of weeks, and some students will not have their fall grades by then. Of course, by the time the interview weekends take place in February, all students should be able to send fall grades.</p>
<p>My guess is that some schools require mid-year grades because they want to make sure that students have indeed taken the courses they said they were and that senioritis has not hit. Any kind of slacking off in undergraduate may be perceived as a bad sign when it comes to predicting the student’s success with the year-round rigors of graduate school.</p>
<p>will the majority of interview invites be sent out over the next two weeks?</p>
<p>The majority of interview requests happen by mid-January, although last year’s threads indicated that people were still receiving a smattering of invitations in early February. Much depends on the individual program since certain ones notify later than others, even within the same university.</p>
<p>The best thing to do is keep track of interview requests here and elsewhere to see what has gone out when. Larger programs tend to have two or more waves of invitations while the smaller, highly selective ones often send out one batch. Later in the season, people start to decline interviews, so the schools may try to fill those spots with additional invitations.</p>
<p>I feel like I have added to the anxiety. The young man who heard from P-ton has been working, so no issue of grades to be considered. As far as I know, he hasn’t heard from any of the other programs. He turned in applications on due dates, and goodness knows when LORs will be received. I congratulate the early appliers, because you have a chance to plan weekends.</p>
<p>Interview invitation today for Albert Einstein College of Medicine!</p>
<p>Stats:
Undergrad at CSU East Bay (Tier 3)
Cum. GPA: 3.33 (yay good Fall quarter!), Math/Science GPA: 3.6 or so
GRE: 770Q/640V/4.0A; no subject test.
Research experience: 9 months (and ongoing) in a cellular/molecular neuroscience lab studying neuronal tiling in C. elegans; 5 months in a genetics lab working on an (unfortunately canceled) TBX-3 transcription factor project.</p>
<p>Applied: UC Berkeley, UCSF, UMN Twin Cities, UM Ann Arbor, UW Madison, University of Rochester, Columbia, Albert Einstein, Johns Hopkins, Duke.
Interviews:
12/17-UM Ann Arbor (1/28-1/30)
12/26-Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1/15-1/16)
Acceptance: None
Rejected: None</p>
<p>Interview with Princeton Neuroscience. By email - today (probably would’ve been sooner but my app was moved from Mol Bio to Neuro, so there was a bit of a delay). Feb 4-6 (also Feb 18-20 dates). The letter attached was dated to Dec. 22.</p>
<p>SO excited! I didn’t realize how awesome the Neuro community at Princeton is until now. Few courses, great first course, a heavy emphasis on computational and quantitative neuroscience and the whole program really dedicated to neural coding (which is what I want to do study). Oh, man. Psyched!</p>
<p>Heh…is anyone here doing systems/qbio? This board seems to be 90% neuro people…at least, they’re getting all the invites so far.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for the advice Mollie. :)</p>
<p>re princeton qcb- I wouldn’t be surprised if their interview invites get sent out a bit late-- since its the first year of the program. They got ~85 applications, and are inviting something like 30 to interview, if that helps at all. Good luck- it’s a great program.</p>
<p>does anyone know what the chances of admission are after interviews are princeton?</p>
<p>i’m stoked about princeton qcb. i hope it works out in my favor.</p>
<p>I received an invitation for NYU Sackler interview on Dec 24th. They are offering two weekends for interviews- Jan 14-15th and Feb 4-5th. January one is coming up so soon!!!</p>
<p>Do all the NYU Sackler departments have the same interview weekends? I applied to MOI.</p>
<p>Applying to Molecular and Cell Biology or Genetics PhD programs at:
UCSF
Stanford
Berkeley
University of Washington
University of Oregon
University of Wisconsin at Madison
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
UCLA
Duke</p>
<p>I have interview invites from Berkeley, UCI, University of Oregon, and Madison. NO word from the rest.</p>