<p>@xiv21</p>
<p>regarding invites for harvard bbs, will they come in waves, say on fridays, or will it be trickling until the end of the month?</p>
<p>i guess it would be bad to call since they’re still deciding who to give offers?</p>
<p>@MolSysBio
Do it!!! It is not going to do any harm to your application.
I did it, and more than half of the Us I applied to told me that they would update my application (I didn’t have the proof by the time I sent the e-mail, so I did a printscreen and sent them the image).
The other half did not answer at all… But still, no harm done!
BTW, congratulations!!!</p>
<p>@phdhopeful
sorry for my ignorance, but is gsk = glaxosmithkline? what program is this?</p>
<p>GSK=General Sloan Kettering</p>
<p>Not ignorance at all!
I had to google it, because to me, GSK is exactly Glaxo, hehehe.
Gerstner Sloan-Kettering
At least, I think that’s it, otherwise, glaxosmithkline… :)</p>
<p>@lzh
thanks, so I guessed wrong… hehehe, thanks!</p>
<p>
No, you’re right: G is for “Gerstner,” not “General.”</p>
<p>Woot, UChicago Neuro invite by phone.</p>
<p>So I’ve finally started hearing back from schools! This thread is pretty dead when it comes to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology so I thought I’d post this.</p>
<p>Interviews: UChicago (Eco/Evo) NYU (Biology) and I’m waiting on formal interview invites from UCLA and Georgetown.
Waiting on: Rutgers, Cornell, SUNY Stony Brook, UC-Davis
Rejected: Princeton (heard their invites went out last week)</p>
<p>@Izh,</p>
<p>Congrats on the Dartmouth interview offer for MCB! Did you get an e-mail invitation or phone invitation? I also applied to the M2P2 for MCB at Dartmouth but haven’t heard from them yet - completed that application around Jan. 4 deadline by the way.</p>
<p>@microst – I really loved the UPenn interview…they treated us like royalty…and the grad students seem very happy. The environment seems very collaborative atleast thats what I felt like. Its a lot of fun…you will meet with grad students and get to hang out with them and other recruits and get to know the campus life. Make sure to wear comfortable shoes as you will be walking quite a bit trying to get to your interviewers. Good luck with the interview!</p>
<p>@VIRALDU
I got an email notification. I am not sure for the M2P2 but I think MCB are still sending out the invitation. good luck!</p>
<p>@RIO</p>
<p>thought i knew pretty much all the top programs, but missed gsk. acc to wiki, they are a very new program! for a sec, i thought ppl were talking about glaxo’s program for grad students which is not a phd program so i was confused. i’m interested in how they stack up to other schools although cancer is not really my field of interest.</p>
<p>@phDhopeful: I decided to come to Harvard BBS. While I was really interested in cancer biology, I thought that GSK was a bit small for my tastes and a little too narrow. I really enjoy interacting with my colleagues who have interests in a variety of other areas of biology. Also, GSK has no/few teaching opportunities, and since I wanted to teach, that aspect was not ideal for me.</p>
<p>@daybyday: As far as I know, most decisions should have been more or less decided by now. The bottleneck is that BBS calls each accepted applicant individually, so you’ll get a phone call before an email. And since the phone calls are made by professors, the calls are not necessarily made in batches. Basically, if you get accepted, you’ll hear from a professor whenever he/she has the time to call you. But sometime before the end of this month.</p>
<p>Does anybody know anything about how the CSBi interview weekend at MIT works? I got the invitation last week and I’m wondering how intense it is (as someone said previously) and how many people are invited/get in?</p>
<p>@xiv21:
Thanks for the clarification. So, is the professor who contacts necessarily the person that I expressed interest in working in his/her lab or is it just anybody who’s been assigned to call? That obviously makes a huge difference whether if one gets admitted to Harvard BBS or not, right? If it’s the former, makes me want to redo the app with more emphasis on particular person’s research.</p>
<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>This is my first post here. I’m an undergrad student from India and I just got an e-mail from UChicago telling me I’d be interviewed for the PhD in Molecular Biosciences (which reminds me, does an ‘e-mail’ invite mean they’re less interested in me?). I’ll be having an interview via Skype and was wondering if any of you already interviewed there… so I could get in touch with you for more specific queries.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Email doesn’t mean they are less interested! They could have no reached you by phone or it is too expensive/easier to email. If I didn’t pick up, they would’ve sent me an email… Don’t worry!</p>
<p>Good luck with your interview! Skype has been crashing a lot on me lately, so hopefully that doesn’t happen with you!!</p>
<p>I told myself I wouldn’t log on until I heard back from GSK, but I had to post something for future generations of applicants with regard to GSK: apply apply apply APPLY! Granted, I am pretty biased as I loved the place before I got there, but wow what a couple of days. </p>
<p>Good luck phDhopeful and the rest of you I met over the past few days. Hopefully we’ll hear good news soon.</p>
<p>And for anyone who will be at UPenn CAMB on Feb 4th, see you then!</p>
<p>
I think the callers are faculty on the admissions committee, not just “anybody who’s been assigned to call.”</p>
<p>It’s most certainly not the former, however, as the faculty member who called me shares zero research interests with me. (She was not one of the eight professors I professed to having an interest in potentially working with.)</p>
<p>Also, though the first “batch” of acceptance calls might be made, as xiv21 said, “whenever a professor has the time to call you,” I don’t think this is how it plays out for the remainder of this month, as I was informed by my caller that my acceptance package would arrive immediately after. Therefore, it seems like when you receive the calls has something to do with when BBS has sent out your mail.</p>
<p>My phone call came from a BBS professor in whose research I had previously expressed great interest (hahaha, how convoluted). That prof wants me to rotate with him/her but based on what krypton said I don’t know if there’s any correlation between caller and research interests. My caller personally sent out my acceptance email right after we talked and also said they would send the package immediately, so apparently this is done on a ‘rolling’ basis.</p>
<p>btw @krypton: are you applying this application cycle, or are you already in grad school? not really sure…</p>