<p>I got the invitation call, as I mentioned, about U of T Austin for the neuroscience program this morning. She followed up with an email about a phone interview that will take place this week. The email also mentioned a “recruitment weekend” in March. I am a little confused… Is the recruitment weekend like the real interview and the phone interview a preliminary one? The email said I made the “short list” out of the 100 applicants but it seems a little confusing.</p>
<p>One of my bio teachers really sung the praises of that program. Have any of you heard much about it? It seems to be pretty decent for Neuroscience.</p>
<p>Thanks molliebatmit, and OUCH! I can only imagine! </p>
<p>And thanks to everyone else for the congratulations as well…</p>
<p>Good news is we agreed on 8/9/10! So it will all be said and done before the semester starts!</p>
<p>and xxxxxxx, people are imbalanced in many many ways, I strive to take all aspects of my life, from the minutiae to the earth shattering big stuff, equally. :P</p>
<p>I know that Austin is a great place to live, and out of all the UT schools, it’s neuroscience has the best reputation. This is what I heard at SFN this year, when I was poking around asking students about their programs. :)</p>
<p>does anyone know what percent of applicants who received an interview invitation from MIT Biology get accepted and when we can expect to hear back about the final admissions decision?</p>
<p>Never fear, molbio, I got invited to one of my interviews by email at 10pm on a Friday, and had many commuications with admit committees over weekends.</p>
<p>Hi all!
I’d like to join this official freak out thread, as i haven’t heard from anywhere yet.</p>
<p>About me:
Chemistry, senior thesis focused on structural bio and biochem
GPA: 3.1, 3.4 in major (I went to a small liberal arts that is well known for lower GPAs)
GRE: 670 (96%)V, 800 (94) M, 4.5 (51) W
Publications: 4- all good journals, no first author (2 second, 2 third)
Research: 3 summer internships, 1 school year honors thesis, 4 years in a UC lab
Recs- 2 from UC profs, 1 from my undergrad thesis adviser
Research focus- structures/mechs/affinities/selectivities of protein+nucleic acid complexes</p>
<p>Applied:
UCSF- tetrad
Berkeley- MCB
Stanford- structural bio, biochem, biophysics
Harvard- MCB
UW- BMSD , due date was jan 1, so not too worried on this one yet
JH- chembio (also shares app with bio and biochem)- due jan 15, turned in late dec, so not too worried on this yet either.</p>
<p>Again, nothing heard yet.
Maybe I’ll get some of the California ones still, i don’t require a plane ticket or lodging. I’m a cheap interview.</p>
<p>Good luck to the rest of you! It seems really brutal this year.</p>
<p>I’ve just got an interview invitation from Upenn CAMB program. I was surprised because it’s saturday evening. I am very glad to get an interview invitation from Upenn : )</p>
<p>Thanks, Odysseymao! I think they are posted a couple places but will put here too… I applied to a huge amount of programs because I had a major fear that there would be a massive amount of applicants because of the recession. Am glad I did because it looks like the competition is ridiculous this year…</p>
<p>Last 4 years at public state school: 3.93 GPA (although took classes over ten years ago for a year and got bad grades so my cum. GPA is 3.68)
GRE: 660 Q, 600 V, 3.5 AW (horrible AW, just horrible)
9 months doing research at top memory lab in country (won grant award for the summer), 5 months doing research in psychology
No publications, boo…
2.5 years student-teaching chemistry and biology
Organization president, lots of service projects/honor societies/awards, psychiatrist shadowing (one semester), study abroad, tutoring incarcerated youth, etc. (a lot of stuff that probably does not matter to adcoms)</p>
<p>Applied to:
Princeton Neuroscience
Brown Neuroscience
Yale Psych
NYU Sackler
UCLA Neurobio
USC Psych
VCU Pharmtox
U of Texas Austin Neuroscience
ASU Neuroscience
Harvard Psych
FSU Neuroscience
Univ Maryland Baltimore
UCSF Neuroscience
UNC BBSP
UVA Psych
U of Miami Neuroscience
U of Ill Chicago Neuroscience</p>
<p>So far: rejected at Princeton, interviews at NYU Sackler, VCU Pharmtox, U of Texas Austin</p>
<p>I’ve applied to U Wash Microbiology too. Haven’t heard anything from them
Yea, it’s normal… any professor in their adcom may call you…
When did you receive the call? </p>
<p>@telojennie</p>
<p>Which track in UPenn CAMB did you apply to?</p>
<p>I can’t believe they send invites out during the weekend…</p>
<p>oh wait, yes I can, HELLO ACADEMIA! </p>
<p>I have a feeling I’m going to end up doing my PhD in my undergrad school, haha, all this money and time invested into applying to US. But, we’ll see.</p>
<p>@influenza I got it around 6pm ish EST, so 3pm PST.
I don’t know where they are in the invite list though so hopefully you’ll get a call in the next few days. Seattle is in the 206 area code, so look for that. =)</p>
