<p>@GradHopefully,</p>
<p>Sure thing, I’m at MIT for undergrad right now, Biology major (yes, I’m seriously considering being an MIT “lifer”!)</p>
<p>Overall GPA: 4.8/5.0 (lots of late nights)
Major GPA: 4.9/5.0
GRE: 790Q, 660V, 6.0AW
Two years of pretty solid research in a very good lab, no publications or anything though. At least two of three LORs were quite strong I think. I’m a domestic student, if that helps. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>@n7el</p>
<p>SCBB at UVa has rolling application/acceptance, so don’t worry if you haven’t heard yet. I emailed someone I knew there to see if my app was complete and he let it slip that I have an interview in february. I’m not sure if there’s a specific recruitment weekend, it seemed like they were flexible on when to visit/interview. what other schools did you apply to? </p>
<p>@pipette kid</p>
<p>congrats on getting into bbs and rockefeller!! those are the two I’m still waiting on so I’m a little jealous… I know bbs will keep sending invites for a few weeks, but is anyone sure what rockefeller’s policy is? should I be worried if I didn’t hear from them yet?</p>
<p>I thought I’d post a little update since I’m pretty much done.</p>
<p>Accepted: Harvard BBS
Interview: Columbia CMBS, Johns Hopkins Neuroscience, Princeton Neuroscience, Yale MCGD, Harvard MCO, Stanford Neuroscience, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Rejected: none
Unknown: Rockefeller, Caltech, Berkeley Neuroscience</p>
<p>Although by the looks of it, I may be rejected by Rockefeller.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, I just got an invitation to interview at MIT’s BCS program by email yesterday, so apparently they’re not done after all. Does anyone know how many of those interviewed at BCS are accepted? Also, any current students or others familiar with the program have any insights as to the program itself - what the profs are like, what the students are like, the overall culture/feel to the place? Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m very interested in any answers to fmrifun’s question, and especially how you would compare it culture-wise, research-wise, student-wise, to Harvard.</p>
<p>ok… so last post for me because I’m done with interview waiting!! The final interview list is:
U. of VA BMBG, Yale BBS biochemistry and biophysics, Northwestern ibis biochemistry biophysics and structural bio, U. Chicago Molecular Biosciences
no rejections… Still waiting on Duke chem, Cornell chem, and Indiana chem but was accepted to U. Illinois Urbana chem (although that’s not so relevant to this thread).<br>
Good luck at interviews everyone and good luck for everyone still checking their email 10 times per day!</p>
<p>I’ve got a conflict w/ MIT BCS and Stanford’s interview weekend. Is anyone else in a similar situation, what are you guys doing?</p>
<p>Heard from Stanford Biophysics today! Got an interview offer via snail mail.</p>
<p>I was an undergrad in the MIT BCS department, and am a graduate student at Harvard BBS. </p>
<p>Overall, I would say BCS is a much closer-knit program than BBS is – BBS is a very large program, and there’s a great diversity of research interests represented, while BCS is much more narrowly-tailored (and is contained in one building on MIT’s campus, as opposed to be spread throughout Boston and Cambridge). Of course, there are more professors in BBS than there are in BCS, and it’s possible as a BBS student to rotate with/join the lab of any life sciences lab at Harvard. (I don’t know whether BCS students are allowed to join the labs of MIT PIs who are affiliated only with Biology – it may be that they are. But MIT is still quite a bit smaller than Harvard.)</p>
<p>There are also differences between the programs in the amount of time you’ll spend around undergrads – BBS does not require TAing an undergraduate course, as the medical school has no undergraduates, while BCS requires TAing (IIRC from my time as an undergrad) two courses. Of course, MIT undergrads are considerably less annoying than Harvard undergrads, so this may not be so bad. But BCS students will have more contact with undergrads than the average BBS student.</p>
<p>I hesitate to comment on program “culture”, because, to be honest, I don’t believe there are real differences between the way graduate students and professors behave at various top programs across the country.</p>
<p>So I’m new to this and it’s kind of making me crazy.</p>
<p>Firstly, has anyone not heard from UNC BBSP that thought they would have by now? I got an email a week ago saying they were reviewing my file… dun dun dun. And nothing this week. Doesn’t look like it’s boding well.</p>
<p>With that said, I have gotten interviews from Duke PCB, Emory MSP, and VCU IBMS. Waiting to hear from Univ of Florida IDP and Univ of Texas- Austin CMB.</p>
<p>So comments on UNC… UF or UT?</p>
<p>Hi Mollie, Are you going to be in the BBS recruitment weekend? If yes, It would be great to meet you since you have helped us so much through out the process. :)</p>
<p>My results so far:</p>
<p>Applied: Harvard BBS, UCSD Neuro, UCSF BMS, Stanford Biosciences, Hopkins Neuro
Accepted: Harvard (heard 1/15)
Interviews: UCSD Neuro (heard 1/12), Hopkins Neuro (heard in dec.)
Rejected: UCSF
Still waiting: Stanford</p>
<p>Hi Mollie,</p>
<p>I’m an undergrad in MIT Biology right now, and I’m trying to decide whether I’d rather end up at MIT Biology or Harvard BBS. You said you wanted to go to a different school for your PhD, and I’m hearing lots of people tell me I have to do the same - how important do you think this is? My research has been at the Broad Institute where I’ve never actually worked with MIT faculty, so I’m not getting a terribly strong urge to move on from the Institute, necessarily. I was just hoping to get a sense from you of how heavily this should weigh in my decision versus other factors.</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch!</p>
<p>Just got an invite from Tufts Sackler Immunology. I think rejections are coming my way from UCSD BMS and Harvard BBS. However, I did email UCSD and they say applications are still being reviewed at this point in time</p>
<p>@biophys66
The deadline for UVa was yesterday, so they will send out invitations in next couple of weeks??? I applied to UVa SCBB, Washington BMSD, Wisconsin biophysics, UIUC computational biology, and UNC BBSP. Washington BMSD is my first choice. What schools did you apply to? What area of biophysics are you interested in?</p>
<p>@dendritic
I have not heard from UNC BBSP either (some people have). I also thought I would’ve by now, and have gotten interviews at a decent number of schools at this point (well, 4 out of… a lot). 
I am also interviewing at VCU!! Are you going on the 22nd?</p>
<p>@Dendritic (and neurohope)</p>
<p>I also applied to UNC BBSP with pharm concentration and I have yet to get any contact. UNC was one of the schools i was expecting to get an interview from, so I’m getting a bit worried.</p>
<p>@neurohopes and wasabi2u</p>
<p>you guys have given me hope. Thanks for checking the blog. I’ll keep you updated. Hopefully we’ll all have good news soon. And neurohopes, i haven’t picked a date for vcu yet. I’m excited but a little nervous. I’ll figure it out early next week. Good luck next weekend!</p>
<p>
I will definitely be at the dessert event that’s usually held Saturday night, as long as I can convince my collaborator (who’s a G1) to be my date. And, of course, I’m happy to say hi to anybody who recognizes me! </p>
<p>(Fact: the G1 who’s rotating in our lab right now came to BBS in part because of PMing me about the program last year. And then he PMed me to ask if I knew anything about [my thesis advisor]'s lab. God bless the internet.)</p>
<p>
It was a tough decision for me, and I didn’t know before interviews whether I actually wanted to leave MIT. I was very happy there as an undergrad, and I had a few labs (not including my UROP lab) that I was really interested in.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the interview weekend was what sealed it for me – I found it very difficult to separate my feelings about the graduate program from my feelings about MIT as a place and as an undergraduate school. This was a big red flag for me, and I knew I needed to go somewhere else. And at least my year, all of the MIT undergrads were scheduled for an interview with Bob Horvitz, who was very vehement about the advantages of leaving.</p>
<p>Others in my class chose to stay, and they are happy. It’s a decision that’s up to you, and that should be fairly clear after you interview everywhere – stay or go elsewhere depending on what you feel is right. It won’t hurt you, as long as you aren’t staying in your UROP lab, working on your undergrad project. :)</p>
<p>Hi, has anybody heaerd from CMM of Johns Hopkins? I’m wondering has it sent out all its invitations for interview because I have not got anything from it so far…</p>