I thought I remembered BMS having that pre-MCB/pre-Stanford spot my year, but of course these things change, and it was practically an eternity ago anyway. At any rate, the schedule seems to be pretty jumbled this year – it’s unfortunate for applicants. I wish the programs could do a better job of organizing the schedule so it makes sense for the largest number of people.</p>
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Yes. The programs will usually book refundable plane tickets for this reason.</p>
<p>Look, this is a business decision that you have to make – deciding where to attend graduate school will significantly affect your life for the next five-plus years and for the rest of your life. It’s not about hurting a program’s feelings. If you have an interview weekend you strongly wish to attend, and you have already made plans to attend a less-desirable-to-you weekend, write a polite email or call and cancel. It doesn’t matter if the program has paid for a hotel room, or a plane ticket, or has written you a really sweet email. You are in charge of your interview schedule. You cannot be forced to attend a weekend you don’t want to attend.</p>
<p>I’m a little confused by everyone saying stanford and ucsf overlap. I have interview dates for UCSF BMS on Feb. 8-12 and at Stanford Biosciences on March 2-6. What do y’all have? I just got an invite to UC-Davis Micro which is on the same weekend as UCSF, so I’m not sure what to do about that. Are specific Stanford biosciences programs interviewing on different dates?</p>
<p>I am in California. I need to go to yale, Cornell, and Columbia for interviews in Feb. They all require me to arrive on Thursday. it spends a whole to travel from west to east. and I have a whole day of classes and lab on Thursdays. They conflict. Any one has the same situation as me? How do you deal with it? thanks for advice!!!</p>
<p>I’m interviewing for UCSD BMS on Feb 17-20. It was the only option I was offered so I don’t know if there are other weekends or not. I received the invite on Dec 8th.</p>
<p>Thanks! I spoke to the program’s admin earlier this morning and she said they haven’t gotten to reviewing all applications, so I’m still hopeful. Ugh, waiting games suck.</p>
<p>My stats:
3.6 overall GPA 3.5 major GPA
740Q 520V 5 on writing
Biology subject test 89th percentile
2.5 years of molecular biology research in top research institute
One 3rd author paper in review
I have applied to the following schools:
Georgetown
Baylor
Cornell
Einstein
NYU
UPenn</p>
<p>I’m starting to get really worried since I haven’t heard back from anywhere. I know my stats arent the greatest but I didn’t think they were that bad. I submitted most of my apps right at the deadline. Anyone else having the same problem?</p>
<p>Just received interview invitation to UConn for Feb 11 & 12 with a schedule attach for both days, i am excited, anyone else going to their recruitment weekend?</p>
<p>What are the chances of getting into a program after attending interview? I’ve heard anywhere from 20-80% depending on the program, does that sound about right? </p>
<p>Just seems like the odds aren’t very good if each program takes in about 10-15 students, and like 100+ students come for interviews.</p>
<p>@Phamachem: What Davis program did you hear from? Also, just tell your professors you will be unable to attend class, but you’ll make it up on a later date. This is important and they should understand.</p>
<p>@immuno2011: Tufts called me in the morning, then I got an email later that day. I applied for the Integrated Studies Program though.</p>
<p>@turkeylurkey i do not think that each school invites 100 people. Based on my conversations with the admissions committee of UCSD, they usually invite 3X the amount of people that they want to have in the program. the reason for that is that students that get admitted into UCSD also (statistically speaking) get admitted in 2 other similar schools. so i know that UCSD invites 80-90 people every year because they can/want to have about 30</p>
<p>also your chances of getting in are really good… a school is not going to spend $400-500 to fly someone in if they don’t have a real interest in that person.
i will say that the reason for the interviews is to show that you actually are who you say you are… there are people that sound great in paper but the reality is different</p>
<p>I have heard that is a myth. They accept most of the applicants they interview, but only so many students actually decide to go to the school. A former grad student who was on the admissions committee for his program told me that they are mostly looking for “personality liabilities” and only reject the “crazies”. But, this could be specific for his particular program. I think if you got an interview, your chances are pretty good.</p>
<p>I applied to Immunology no they did not provide alternative dates but there is an option to select that you are still interested but would not be able to attend the interview?</p>