<p>@ systems</p>
<p>I applied to MIT physics, so I don’t know, but the invites for csbi might be out this week, based on very little data from previous years. I heard that their admissions have been very unreliable (it might be relatively easy or very difficult to get in, depending on the year), so it might take them longer if they have too many qualified applicants this year.</p>
<p>Acceptance from Vanderbilt IGP today (Interviewed on Friday, three days ago). The quick reply is great.</p>
<p>For anyone out there looking at public health PhD programs, I know UW Pathobiology started making phone calls at the end of last week.</p>
<p>For those who got interviews at UChicago are they sending out any kind of packets? I know the 2 weekend dates were Jan. 13-15 and Jan. 27-29. I picked the latter weekend but haven’t gotten anything further from the program after I forwarded my travel itinerary at the end if Dec.</p>
<p>@biosci2011</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. Do you happen to know if they send invites in waves?</p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything from UCSF Tetrad since last Thursday? It seems like they sent out a bunch of interview invitations on Thursday only and then stopped. Maybe they have a long weekend for MLK Jr day. I’m not giving up hope, but I’m starting to get a little worried.</p>
<p>@flutopian</p>
<p>Not sure, sorry. I haven’t really found anyone else applying to these programs so I can’t find as much info. Any news for you on the Harvard front?</p>
<p>@biosci2011</p>
<p>No word from my friends who applied to the SPH program at Harvard, but I’ll let you know if they hear anything. The only public health programs I applied to were Berkeley’s Infectious Disease program and UW’s Pathobio…and so far, zilch from either! :(</p>
<p>@IzzieE</p>
<p>UChicago sent me a schedule by email about 5 days before my interview (I did the 13-15th). Usually they cant plan too far ahead because they want to provide an accurate faculty interview list to you. Do not worry, they will not forget about you.</p>
<p>@Oz</p>
<p>I’m there with you… waiting. Tick tock. :-/</p>
<p>Got the interview invite from Weill Cornell Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems Biology today. Pretty pumped that I got invites at Cornell and Columbia, I’d love to be in NYC for graduate school.</p>
<p>@ Zidaine
I’m also waiting for Stanford, but I have a feeling the invitations already went out (or they take MLK day really seriously)</p>
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<p>Re: Interviewing with Nobel Laureates.</p>
<p>Oh, for goodness’ sake. Just because an interviewer received the Nobel Prize doesn’t mean he or she is necessarily going to tear you apart or give you a more difficult time. It’s in your best interest to try to speak with the professors whose research interests you. Some of the Laureates I’ve met are among the friendliest and funniest professors I know. The only thing you need to worry about is whether they have the time to interview at all (and some of them do).</p>
<p>^ True, I interviewed once with a Nobel laureate. nice guy, he just asked me what other schools I was applying to, and seems more interested in my well-being as a graduate student than in my actual interview and research.</p>
<p>@zombieapplicant</p>
<p>I don’t think there is much hope in Stanford. It seems that all their invitations went out in the last 2 weeks. And it doesn’t seem like they are doing invitations in waves</p>
<p>i still have some hope in stanford… i applied to cell and molecular physiology and as far i knock no1 has heard back from them yet</p>
<p>anyone got an email from harvard bbs today?</p>
<p>@ kryptonsa36 -</p>
<p>Do you know what percentage of Tetrad interviewees are accepted? A friend of mine (who interviewed but wasn’t accepted last year) told me ~50%, but I don’t know where she got that number. </p>
<p>I’m so nervous! Any tips on interviewing?</p>
<p>50% is around the right number for last year’s interviewees. However, they downsized the incoming class of 2010, whereas I’ve heard they plan to bring the target class size back up to around 28 this year (double what my class size is). So the post-interview acceptance rate is impossible to predict. If they keep the number of interview spots the same though, i.e., 60, then I bet the rate this year will be higher.</p>
<p>U Maryland College Park NACS (neuroscience program) invited me for an interview. Their weekend is Feb. 17th & 18th.</p>