<p>@coolcats24, I just heard today from Baylor immunology. If your time stamp is EST, it was literally minutes before you posted. Go ahead and contact Kelly Levitt if you haven’t heard, she’s really nice and replies to emails super fast.</p>
<p>Anyone else applied to Baylor immunology?</p>
<p>Brains, I know you will get in! Crossing my fingers for you! (P.S., I was a college dropout years ago… Let’s beat the odds together.) 
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<p>Cancerbiol, hang in there! I think they are still going through apps at NYU.</p>
<p>@daybyday: Typically BBS admits around 100-110 with an expected matriculation rate of around 60%. I don’t know the exact number, but based on how we are planning our recruitment weekends, I’m pretty sure the number of accepted is still around 100. Although I am also pretty sure that the number of applicants has gone up. It is still possible that offers will be made up until Feb. 8th, which is the hard deadline according to the administration.</p>
<p>A couple of random things…</p>
<p>Firstly, a friend of mine got this email today about UNC BBSP. They said “we should have all final decisions made within the next couple of weeks”. Suggesting they are delaying rejecting her? Or holding off giving her interview in a second wave? Who knows.</p>
<p>Secondly, an admissions committee called my lab today and talked to my mentor. Is this common? My mentor submitted a recommendation this week and they called to verify and get more information. I’m pretty sure the call was from the IDP program at the University of Florida Gainesville. Anyone hear anything from them? Have a similar experience?</p>
<p>Thirdly, if you like talking about research and science, then interviews are fun. I know this sounds weird, but I found that if you could get the interviewer talking about their research, it was very easy to ask “smart” questions. Even the interviewers who were out of my precise discipline explained their research in simplified terms that a biology major could understand. And they seemed to enjoy when I politely asked them to explain genes, proteins, processes that I wasn’t 100% familiar with… That was just my experience, but I did get in :)</p>
<p>Anyone already visit Emory or Duke? How were their weekends?</p>
<p>I heard from IDP/UF-Gainesville a few days ago. The lady who’s responsible for the program answered my e-mail. She is very nice. They have not contacted my recommenders, but I am an overseas applicant (as all of my recommenders are).
Maybe you should write them a message asking if your app. has been evaluated already. Good luck! I think their program is very interesting.</p>
<p>I just got an invite to an open house from Columbia dept. of Biology. I thought I was rejected, I guess not. Sweet.</p>
<p>has anyone heard from Berkeley’s infectious disease program?</p>
<p>or hopkins public health, mmi (molecular microbiology and immunology program)?</p>
<p>got a letter from UMich neuroscience grad program, another friendly rejection!</p>
<p>@andy251, I haven’t heard from JHSPH MMI yet either, but because I’m a masters’ student in that department, my admissions process will be different than yours. Email Gail, she will be more than happy to let you know where they’re at in the process.</p>
<p>Has anyone else out there applied to University of Chicago’s Biophysics program?
Apparently this is the first year they are doing their admissions as a separate department and they have essentially no information available. </p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything? The wait is driving me batty! Its in my top 2 with UW-Madison and I was accepted there before X-mas!!!
Anyone with info would be much appreciated?</p>
<p>Is it considered okay to call the school’s to ask about admission status, interviews, etc…, or do they consider it to be annoying or damaging to your application?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Harvard Biophysics has sent out invites yet?</p>
<p>@coolcats24
I guess it’s ok, if you don’t call them every week. I mean, you should be able to know what is your application status. You paid for the service, and the least schools can do is to perform the service right (evaluating your application, and letting you know how that went). Well, at least that’s how I see the situation.
I have called/e-mailed some schools, and, apart from Cornell, people were very nice. But in some others I got no reply. No harm done, though. You just can’t call them all the time, that must be annoying. I did not call/e-mail programs that made it clear applicants were not supposed to do that (i.e. MSU).
Well, but it’s up to you.</p>
<p>@TwylaBloo I didn’t apply to Harvard Biophysics but I have seen on thegradcafe.com that someone was called and accepted on Jan 26th. I’ve been watching that site like a hawk.</p>
<p>Ah, thank you any1butme2. It was a long shot anyway…</p>
<p>I emailed the program coordinators at Baylor, UTSW, and Emory last week (1/20 or 1/21) because I had already confirmed two interviews and wanted to know when I might hear from them. All program coordinators replied within the hour with dates I could expect to hear. I probably would not want to attend a school where a student contacting the program coordinator was met with anything but enthusiasm. The program coordinators are so important throughout your graduate career that you should be able to communicate readily with them during the application process as well. I encourage you to contact the program coordinator, not necessarily the director of admissions, about the status of your application and when you might receive a decision because that shows you care about and WANT to interview at that school.</p>
<p>So if we havent heard from any school by now, especially GSK, can I assume try again next year!!!</p>
<p>has anyone who’s going to UNC BBSP this coming weekend heard from them recently? after booking my flight about a month ago i haven’t heard a single thing and it’s getting late!</p>
<p>Accepted to Tufts Sackler!! I interviewed last Friday. Yay my first acceptance!!</p>