<p>ya just got the rejection too! oh well…maybe will get to visit them during scientific conferences in the future:-)</p>
<p>I too received my UCSF BMS rejection today (ironically after venting at a friend that if they were going to reject me, to just please send me the info and put me out of my misery)</p>
<p>Ah well, at least it wasn’t my top choice…and there’s always postdoc. =)</p>
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Most schools fund their graduate students using NIH training grants, and NIH money can only go to US citizens. Programs generally have to fund their international students using their own money.</p>
<p>as anyone heard from harvard bbs yet???</p>
<p>@mollie: for BBS by key faculty I mean professors who might be involved in the review process.</p>
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What do you think?</p>
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That information is probably not (supposed to be) readily available.</p>
<p>yeah, I figured. in any case I find it hilarious everyone is freaking out about BBS. come on, even if BBS sends one right now and the forum goes crazy, we know that historically they send them throughout the month through early February, not in a wave like MIT Biology.</p>
<p>Got an interview for UCSF iPQB (biophysics)! through e-mail…</p>
<p>Stanford Immunology has sent out invitation emails.</p>
<p>@ molliebatmit:</p>
<p>you wrote "Most schools fund their graduate students using NIH training grants, and NIH money can only go to US citizens. Programs generally have to fund their international students using their own money. "</p>
<p>Now, does this funding mean waived tuition and stipend? And is this like the universal case here? And will this affect the selection of thesis advisors? Say I am real interested in Prof A, but he has only NIH grants, and in the end I have to work with Prof B in an uninterested topic because he can afford my tuition and stipend.
I wonder if that’s an extreme siutation or is it possible, and it’s starting to bug me now, even when I have zero admissions…</p>
<p>@kvscience</p>
<p>Got an invitation to Rochester’s pathology, a little excited. Pathology does seem to send invitations later than others.</p>
<p>Hey guys, has any of you heard from U Texas at Austin Cell&Molecular Bio (CMB) program?</p>
<p>A lot of times the NIH grant is a gigantic department grant. So they may use that to pay for you until you get a professor to fund you from his own grant.</p>
<p>Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew if some programs would ever allow students to start earlier in the summer and complete additional lab rotations. One place I asked said yes another said no…</p>
<p>Also how many people are actually going to check their bags on the way to interviews and trust the airlines not to lose it?</p>
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Oh, lord, I have no idea. It’s my understanding that applications for different areas are read by faculty from those departments, but I don’t actually know if that’s true.</p>
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All funding at all programs I’m aware of is waived tuition and a stipend. I have never heard of anyone being admitted to a PhD program in biomedical sciences and having to pay.</p>
<p>The training grants pay for the first two years of a PhD program, and then students are generally transferred to their advisors. It’s certainly true that funding issues can affect who will accept you as a student, although that doesn’t necessarily relate to NIH grants. Graduate students are pretty expensive, and many PIs simply cannot afford them.</p>
<p>Even in the situation of a well-funded lab, your advisor may ask you to apply for grants and fellowships to fund your work, so it’s useful to know what sorts of funding you’ll be eligible for.</p>
<p>I should also correct myself slightly: individual NIH PhD training grants are for US citizens only, but NIH money can be used to fund any research ongoing in the lab. I am not sure if an R01 or other big lab grant can be used for salary support for non-US citizens, but I suspect that it may be.</p>
<p>cytometry - My program allows it if you have a good reason. One of my classmates moved to the school in June because her husband was starting a new job nearby, and did she did a summer rotation (and was, in fact, accepted by the lab before anyone else in the program even arrived, which caused some tension between her and other students who had wanted the opportunity to rotate there)</p>
<p>aldo- thanks, I can see how that might cause some animosity if other student thought you were doing it to get an advanced choice of lab Personally, I graduated in December and I would just like to take advantage of the idle time and begin doing something in May or June. Good to know some programs would consider it.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t trust the airline, actually, I won’t check my bags. It is not worth doing it, if there is the real possibility of having trouble with it missing your luggage. Or, have two bags, check the bigger one, with not essential objects and clothes, and bring a tiny one with you (that is if you need anything bigger than the airline allows you to carry w/ you).</p>
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<p>The post-docs in my lab are all foreign and are being paid by R01 grants. I think my PI had to fill out a justification of why this job couldn’t go to an American citizen, but it’s a pretty standard thing and they just write something like “So and so has unique skills in X that are required for this project.” We’ve never had a problem getting foreign people’s salaries on R01 grants.</p>
<p>I’ve seen a few programs (phd) that are not fully funded, but they seem to be pretty rare.</p>