<p>@influenza:
I applied for cancer biology track.</p>
<p>congrats telojennie, when is ur interview at Penn? I am interviewing next weekend…maybe I will see u there!</p>
<p>@neurohopes, you and I sound like we are in the same boat, I have a 10 year old transcript with bad grades too. One school called to tell me they were going to review my file without the old transcript because those grades were “irrelevant”. </p>
<p>Can I just say, I did a dance when they said that!! my new cumulative is 3.65, so I was pleased as punch! Your GRE’s are a bit better than mine though :)</p>
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>So I just got interviews at MIT Bio and Princeton Molecular Bio. Needless to say I’m ridiculously excited! Questions:
- How terrifying are the interviews? They sound super fun and honestly I’m really excited, but I’m also very nervous.
- What should I wear? Business casual?
- Does anybody know at Princeton Mol Bio and MIT Bio, how many applicants are accepted after interviews? It is my impression that at some schools its an almost 100% acceptance. My guess is that at Princeton and MIT this is not true.</p>
<p>Thoughts anybody?</p>
<p>Wow, there are so many folks in biology here! I’m one of them too 
This seems like a large family to me.</p>
<p>Seems that this is the hotbed for anxieties and concerns. Good luck to those who have been offered an interview and/or accepted into a program. For others who are waiting for the news like myself, be patient!</p>
<p>
From what my grad student friends here at MIT tell me, once you’re past the customary “tell me about your research and I’ll tell you about mine,” a lot of the interview just consists of down-to-earth chatting. (I believe one person told me they stopped talking about research and instead discussed their mutual interest in dogs.) So nothing to get nervous over!</p>
<p>Woot! Just got an invite to Northwestern IGP!</p>
<p>“the gauntlet” (as I’ve termed my seven straight weekends of interviews) starts next Thurs at UT-Southwestern. These next two months are going to kill me.*</p>
<p>*I’m absolutely terrible in social situations. Nothing is more terrifying to me than an interview…scratch that…women are more terrifying to me.</p>
<p>According to someone in MolBio Princeton (I emailed), a graduate student, it is about 70%+ post-interview.</p>
<p>So if the MIT interview is so chill, is it more recruitment than “grilling you” interview. I heard the CSB program interview are really intense at MIT but again, I’m bio not CSB…sooo…?</p>
<p>Kryptonsa36</p>
<p>Btw, this is really random. But I remember you got a Berkeley MCB invite. Out of curiosity, are you a cal resident?</p>
<p>Nope .</p>
<p>Anyone visiting columbia cmbs soon. Their agenda looks very confusing :). Long run of interviews (7 back to back weekends) starts from columbia for me :).</p>
<p>lucky. i wish i had the same “problem”</p>
<p>I got rejected from Wash U DBBS on Friday and an invite to NW IGP today. </p>
<p>Invites: Vanderbilt, Duke, U Chicago, Northwestern
Rjeections: Wash U
Still Waiting: Drexel, U Penn, Wake Forest, UNC Chapel Hill, Emory, MCG, SLU</p>
<p>Brains: You’re right, I think they don’t care about those old grades (glad one school trashed yours too!) I have killed myself for 4 years to keep my 3.93 and it’s kinda annoying to have to calculate grades from the stone ages in classes like circus skills into the mix. Georgetown told me they would view my GPA as a 3.93 but wanted me to bump my GRE up 50-90 points, if I could. I just didn’t end up having it in me to go through it all again so I didn’t end up applying there after all. They were crazy nice though. The program looked really great too… Oh well. It’s good to know they will forgive old grades!!! Where did you apply?</p>
<p>@ shannonista / ceclarlinetlo –> Northwestern IGP
Did you guys get an e-mail? A call? Domestic or int’l applicant?</p>
<p>neurohopes: My computer test taking skills are famously bad - I have such horrible performance anxiety during standardized tests, so your GRE’s beat mine out totally: 550V, 560Q, 4.5AW. I’m sure this put me out of the running at Harvard, University of Washington, and University of Michigan. I also applied to OHSU, Wayne State, and Tulane. Tulane had an 1100 cutoff for the GRE, and I have an 1110 :)</p>
<p>I have a 3.85 in my major (cell and molecular biology) with a solid B+ average in things like Math, Physics, and Chem. Plus three years of neuroscience research, and one semester of psychophysics research. I didn’t think I was a poor applicant, but now I am having second thoughts. Seems like I have a lot of strikes going against me:</p>
<ol>
<li>I applied to neuroscience programs (guess it’s a lot easier to get into umbrella programs, and many of my friends have taken that route after not getting in on their first try…)</li>
<li>I have average to below average GRE scores :(</li>
<li>I come from a tier three state school</li>
</ol>
<p>But considering I have some pretty difficult to live with learning disabilities, I think I am doing stellar! Getting my degree was grueling- having a 145 IQ doesn’t mean nothin’ if you can’t sit “still” in a classroom to learn! </p>
<p>But there is time, and I have not given up hope.</p>
<p>@rio2016</p>
<p>I got an email. I am a domestic applicant.</p>
<p>@ shannonista and ceclarlinetlo</p>
<p>Which program under NW IGP did you apply to?</p>