<p>Oh wow, congrats on the scholarship! I applied to Duke, Columbia, Hopkins, Yale, Rockerfeller, Stony Brook, Boston University, and Tufts. So far I’ve heard from 3 schools. I have interviews at Yale, Duke, and Hopkins.</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS! It must feel wonderful to have interviews (especially for these Us). Good luck!!! To all of us :)</p>
<p>Thank you very much I appreciate it. Good Luck to you as well. I just want to get these interviews over with so I can know where I’m going for grad school! Everyone here probably feels the same way. It’s a long and annoying process for all, but it will soon be over and I’m sure everyone will end up in a good school.</p>
<p>Long and annoying? It’s not medical school you’re applying to…</p>
<p>My D heard from Brown neuro a few minutes ago. So far, she has UPenn and Brown.</p>
<p>I’m trying to keep her away from CC to alleviate the anxiety. She’ll be disappointed to hear that Princeton neuro went out since she had an “in” there.</p>
<p>@MolSysBio: LOL! I was getting the feeling that most people here were molecular biologists. The neuro invitations are just going out now, while other biomedical fields seemed to be earlier.</p>
<p>Based on what my D has been told, the application pool for neuroscience was indeed huge this year – probably a record for most schools. I think your prediction of a glut may be correct, although that depends on how the field grows and how many make it through to the end.</p>
<p>i don’t think other biomedical fields sent out invites earlier, at least for the schools i applied to (princeton qcb, harvard sys bio/biophysics, mit csbi, columbia dbmi, stanford bmi/biophysics, berkeley biophysics). but it’s strange to me that there are so many neuro applicants. i actually expected a lot more quantitative bio people out there.</p>
<p>^^^Yes, it depends on the programs. Probably because of the size of the applicant pool, neuroscience invitations tend to be among the last at various schools. Not always, but often.</p>
<p>As for quantitative bio, some programs absorb aspects of that into their programs. For example, as safetypin discovered, Princeton’s neuro program has a strong computational biology track. They transferred her application from molbio to neuro for that reason. I see that you’ve applied to a lot of biophysics programs, and you’re right – not many people here have applied to the programs you have.</p>
<p>But neuro is a huge field. And a lot of things are neuro+something else. A lot of things are not even that much neuroscience - like studying Ca2+ channels - but are still thought of as neuroscience, or at least many faculty members are in neuroscience departments. It can be anything from neurovirology to neuropsychology. From purely human-based research, like MRI studies of pain perception or something to neural stem cells. I think that’s why it is such a big field - things that weren’t neuroscience before, but where virology, psychology, physiology, biochemistry, etc… are now neurox. Vesicle fusion is really biochemistry, but if it is in the brain = neuroscience. I think that’s why it seems like there are so many people in neuro.</p>
<p>Maybe if I focus on quantitative neuroscience I’ll escape the ‘glut’ to come. MolSysBio, you should be fine anyway… biologists seem deathly scared of math (or most anyway), so that knowledge will definitely be of great, great, use to you. </p>
<p>Oh, I’m a girl.</p>
<p>@ Kryptonsa36
Yes of course it’s not medical school (that’s a totally different beast and I’m glad I don’t want to be a doctor), but I’m sure all of the people on this forum would agree that they do things besides school and lab work, (like have friends and a social life), thus making the process slightly annoying if you’re trying to balance everything. However, it is what it is, and I’m sure that graduate school will require a lot more juggling abilities. At least then I’ll be doing what I love rather than filling out forms and writing essays about myself.</p>
<p>Momwaitingfornew – congrats to your daughter on her interviews!! How many places did she apply?</p>
<p>quantitative anything and you’ll be safe. not to mention that the work is also a lot cooler / novel (in my opinion). </p>
<p>anyway, momwaitingfornew, based on the resources we have available to us (this forum + thegradcafe) it seems like invites for a lot of the other bio programs haven’t been sent out yet and probably won’t until january. at least, i hope that’s the case…</p>
<p>@neurohopes: She applied to nine programs, with the hope that she would get at least four interviews out of them. Given what the UPenn and the Brown people have told her about the competitiveness of the application pool, I think she is just glad she has two. </p>
<p>@MolSysBio: I find it difficult to separate out the different biomedical programs on this thread. For instance, UCSD BMS (biomedical science) went out, but not neuro. I think one of the branches of Yale BBS notified applicants while others have not. Many of the Sinai, Einstein, Sloan-Kettering invitations are for virology, immunology, and cancer bio. I suspect it’s best to keep track of only those programs where you’ve applied to see whether you still have a chance.</p>
<p>well, i’m pretty sure i have some waiting to do. at least this forum is keeping me entertained through all of this.</p>
<p>@ Krishh - i am international and not in the US, but i am only in canada (toronto) so i’m pretty close by</p>
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<p>Agreed; I think that there appears to be a glut of neuroscience applicants right now because a lot of the programs are sending out invites in waves. Then again, I’m a neuroscience applicant, but I’ve only heard from umbrella programs.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, I was under the impression that Einstein was an umbrella program and that interviews were sent out at the same time. Where did you hear only virology/immuno/cancer bio invites had been sent out?</p>
<p>So I made a new account for a “fresh start” since I’m going to grad school and all.</p>
<p>Interviews:
Johns Hopkins Neuroscience (heard 12/27)
Princeton Neuroscience (heard 12/23)
Columbia Integrated (heard 12/21)</p>
<p>By the way: I hope all Columbia scientists look like this (the navbar):
[Graduate</a> Doctoral Programs | Education | Department of Pathology & Cell Biology | CUMC](<a href=“http://pathology.columbia.edu/education/graduate/]Graduate”>http://pathology.columbia.edu/education/graduate/)</p>
<p>Serric: I was only going by memory, which obviously was faulty. I just remember reading a lot of cancer bio, immunology, etc. as research interests.</p>
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Oh my goodness, yes, neuroscience is EVERYWHERE. There are a couple excellent molecular & cell biology-oriented programs that I ended up not applying to simply because an overwhelming percentage of faculty in those programs are doing neuroscience-related research, which does not interest me at all.</p>
<p>MWFN, I was thinking the same thing. I don’t think that many neuroscience programs (or tracks) have released interview invitations yet, from what I have seen… For instance, I think the UCLA invitations were for immunology, etc…</p>