<p>@ladeeda119: i am waiting to hear from stanford cancer bio as well. chances of an interview seems bleek at this point.</p>
<p>@gradTomorrow
They came in person but had only a couple other students with them who I guess also rescheduled. They are both in the computational bio program at penn.</p>
<p>Agreed on the weather. “Light wintry mix”, huh, weather channel!? Light wintry mix is not my car is an icebox. </p>
<p>BTW, I just got rejected from Univ of Colorado, Denver dev bio. I applied last minute as one that I thought Id get. O well at least there’s others. That makes 2 rejections, 7 interviews/27 applications. And silence from the other EIGHTEEN.</p>
<p>Come on people! Reject me or accept me! (Preferably the later though)</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the acceptance rate at Yale is after you interview? Also, is anyone familiar with the interview process at Yale? Thanks!</p>
<p>
Vanishingly few PIs anywhere will grill you in any way. They will want to talk to you about their work and give you a chance to ask questions about their work and the program, and they will want to talk to you about your previous research experience and what you are interested in researching in graduate school. </p>
<p>No matter where you are interviewing, your chances of admission after interviews will be higher if you can describe your previous work both in terms of its general significance and impact and in terms of the specific contributions it makes to the community, and if you can ask interesting questions about that PI’s research.</p>
<p>@ creolan
I applied to the GMB track at Emory and I haven’t heard anything from them yeat but I have seen on here that someone has, so I guess I didn’t make the list.</p>
<p>i hear interviews aren’t interviews as much as they are recruitment sessions (for most schools…my PI said places like rockefellar can be more intense)… telling you how amazing the program/faculty/city are. taking you out to get some food and drinks and shooting the research ****. have 1-2 solid questions ready for each of your interviewers so they can blab, have a few beers and relax. it is my understanding most programs admit a majority of the people they interview…but dont take it from me i am not in grad school… this is what my bosses have told me</p>
<p>@molliebatmit
So, we were supposed to hear from Harvard BBS today if we are in?</p>
<p>I got an interview from GA Tech…woo hoo! Still waiting on Stanford…called admissions and they said the first wave of invites had been sent out by mail…but not to worry, b/c invites would continue to be sent out until the beginning of Feb…and those sent later will be by email…</p>
<p>anybody heard from Harvard Engineering Sciences (bioengineering) yet?</p>
<p>Or JHU BME?</p>
<p>Final reflections on UCSF TETRAD…</p>
<p>I did a summer program at UCSF last year, and I will admit that I was shocked when I called today and was told that they were done with interviews. My PI is involved with the admissions committee, and I thought we got along great. It never really crossed my mind that I would not get an interview.</p>
<p>To those of you who are interviewing, good luck! San Francisco is an amazing cultural city, and there is so much to see and do. The people at UCSF are friendly and down to earth, and I found it to be a very nurturing atmosphere. My only concern about going there was that I would fall in love with the Bay Area, end up postdoc’ing at Berkeley or Stanford, and never come back east where all my family is. </p>
<p>Sigh…c’est la vie.</p>
<p>
I don’t know anything more than people on this thread who have called the office and have been told that more acceptances could still go out. I can stick my head into the office when I go over to the med school for journal club tomorrow.</p>
<p>a fond “ah shucks” minus the swears to all those (including myself) who didn’t get an interview at UCSF. At this point, I’m just wishing for a “denied” status so I can eliminate them from my mind.</p>
<p>Also, retrospectively, I wish I had applied to more programs, but coulda shoulda woulda and for some reason I listened to a stupid uninformed website.</p>
<p>That said I am incredibly excited and nervous for my interview at Pitt this weekend. Pitt doesn’t get much heat in this thread, but they are 5th for NIH grants for medical research. I think they are growing and will be UCSF awesome one day. Unfortunately, they don’t have too many electrophysio guys… </p>
<p>So good luck to all and hang in there!</p>
<p>@ Fiji6812 which GA Tech program did you apply to?</p>
<p>@sunkist7</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me this past year… I did the summer program in 2009 at UCSF, my PI was on the admissions committee and no interview. It seemed like that was the consensus among the other people I talked to from my summer program and out of like 10 of us only 1 got an interview</p>
<p>@molliebatmit if you can get any additional info, it would be much appreciated. :)</p>
<p>@benkraj and @grosse</p>
<p>I finally heard back from the Davis Micro program. I was told that they are trying to find alternative weekends, and are thinking about Feb 17th…</p>
<p>
This is right on the nose.</p>
<p>As long as you’re mindful of staying mature, friendly, and engaged, interviews will be fun.</p>
<p>@Flutopian</p>
<p>Hmm. Maybe I’ll give them a call, because I just got an e-mail saying:
“Thank you for the email. We currently do not have a alternate recruitment date.”</p>
<p>And that’s all.</p>
<p>Edit:</p>
<p>I called the administrative assistant. She told me what you’d heard Flutopian that they were looking at February 17th and 18th, but were confirming dates with faculty members.</p>
<p>She said she would let me know when she does.</p>
<p>Yeah, same thing. I’m still holding out hope for a UCSD BMS invite (it’s feeling bleak at this point), and I know their interview dates are Feb 17th/18th, so I’m apprehensive to sign up for this second session at Davis. Ugh, not enough weeks in Feb to go around!</p>
<p>I’m so bored and antsy waiting for more notifications from programs that I went online shopping for interview outfits.</p>
<p>(I do have 3 interviews already, so I’m not jumping the gun. If I were less bored/antsy, though, I’d probably wait till the last minute and then just piece things together from my current wardrobe.)</p>