<p>@immuno2011: Yale MCGD interviews. I received an invitation back in December. Their website says they extend acceptances a few weeks after the interviews.</p>
<p>Also, several of my grad student friends at Hopkins told me that some programs not only extend interview invitations in tiers, but they also accept in tiers. Accepting in tiers is more rare…but I was told UPenn CAMB definiately does this. They do not wait until the end of the entire interview period (a month or so) to extend acceptances. They start offering spots the week after the first round of interviews to those that went. This is confirmed on their website and on the 2010 biosciences thread. I was advised that if Penn offered me their earliest weekend, I was to take it and not shift to a later one because there would be more spots open.</p>
<p>Other schools definitely wait until all the interview weekends are over before they start offering spots though. Most schools do this from what I have heard.</p>
<p>@molliebatmit: That’s comforting to read- thank you. </p>
<p>@rabbitstew: Thanks! I applied for molecular med, so it will probably be different. I turned my application in much closer to the deadline. However, a professor from BU who was involved in immuno & micro came and lectured to one of my seminars, and it sounded like a great program- lots of interesting things going on. The whole school as a whole seems great- I like how connected her work was to what was going on in the hospital.</p>
<p>Did anyone else get an email from Berkeley MCB awhile back (like a few days after the deadline) saying they’d be sending out invites from January 7th to 31st? It’s now the 7th… so I’m wondering if the interview invites will start rolling out tomorrow.</p>
This was the case for all of the programs at which I interviewed (MIT biology, UC Berkeley MCB, Stanford Biosciences, UCSF Tetrad, UCLA ACCESS) – acceptances started to go out in the week following the interview. That there are fewer people already accepted early, however, does not mean standards are different early vs. late.</p>
<p>@sirtuin, you’re totally right. I just went back and checked my email and had one telling me that I will be contacted between the 7th and 31th and conveniently enough, it also tells me when their recruitment weekends are. I guess now I can start freaking out waiting for the invite.</p>
<p>Random question, but can any of our current graduate students comment on envelope/package size? Envelopes go to my campus mailbox which I can easily check, but packages go the package room (where I would have to wait for an e-mail that I had received a package). This curiousity applies to direct admit programs, like Rockefeller and Harvard BBS, or programs that are stuck in the stone age and notify about interviews via snail mail <em>cough Stanford Biophysics cough</em></p>
<p>From what I remember the envelopes you receive from direct admit programs most likely won’t fit into a campus mailbox, they are just envelopes but they are pretty big. However, last year when I received them from both schools I got a phone call before the packages were sent out to let me know that I had gotten in… Not sure if all programs do this or not though.</p>
<p>I got interviews from Duke biochemistry and JHU BCMB programs before the new year, and because at the moment I was not yet sure if I would attend, I did not reply until 5-6days after I received the email. But I got no reply or any additional information after I sent the email. Did anyone else who got interviews from these two programs get replies?</p>
<p>I think Yale MCGD is hopeless for me, i applied early too and have not heard anything. I heard that they send most invites very early, among the earliest compared to other grad school.</p>
<p>Thank BMC2011 congratulation to you, Yale is a great place especially the MCGD program.</p>
<p>I am excited about BU too, they told me similar things about the dinner at the chair’s house etc, the professor i talked to was very nice, she even gave me directions to get there. </p>
<p>Did you receive an email from them yet because she told me Shirley Wong will be sending an email out to us about the schedule for that day? </p>
<p>@ secondypdm I have also not heard back from Duke Biochemistry since being notified.
Also I was notified for interviews with Princeton by phone and MIT via email :)</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone so far and maybe I will see some of you guys at these interviews.</p>
<p>No MIT invite, but an invite from Watson School of the Biological Sciences (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Dates are Jan 27-30; conflicts with UCLA ACCESS. :(</p>