<p>Anyone know the deal with UCSD and UCSF…? I think I saw one person from each Univ. say they got invites a day or so ago but no one else… Do they send waves of invites (i.e. I missed the boat) or is it a one-at-a-time system (keep holding on to false hope)?? </p>
<p>Just want to know if I should move on and start accepting invites elsewhere</p>
<p>did anyone else here apply to bioinformatics programs?</p>
<p>I did not apply to bioinfo, but I knew people got interview invitation recently from Columbia.</p>
<p>When I was scheduling my interview for a program, at the very end of the phone call the person made the comment of “we’ll wait til Jan 9 to book tickets and confirm with you that you’re actually attending” even though I had made no indication that I was waiting for other schools that were “higher on my list”. </p>
<p>I would definitely try to schedule based on dates listed online and then to go to everywhere you schedule with, but you can’t leave them hanging for weeks while you wait; I think they’re used to having people cancel. Some friends last year also cancelled all of their other interview weekends once they got invited officially to the school they wanted.</p>
<p>So, I applied to columbia P&S. Haven’t received any email besides a confirmation of application received. should i have received another email with a pin to check the status of my application? i think someone was talking about it earlier.</p>
<p>Sorry that isn’t formatted right, thought we could use message board code. I’ll fix when I’m off my phone. Sorry!</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten anything from Columbia, not even the application ID. I emailed them last week and didn’t get a reply. I applied to Pharmacology and Molecular Signaling… has anyone heard back from them or from any other program in Molecular Basis of Health and Disease? Any information at all about it? :/</p>
<p>Hey flutterfly, I got the interview invitation from Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine on Dec 14th. I think you should get an email with your application ID few days after you submitted your app. If they did not reply just call them. I sent several email to them regarding my app status, and they never replied. Even I got invitation, my status still shows nothing have been received yet except application fee.</p>
<p>Sorry, now it won’t let me edit or delete my post. Anyway, formatted stats for those who asked:</p>
<p>Undergrad Institution: top technical university in the US
Major(s): biology
Minor(s): biomedical engineering
GPA in Major: 3.85
Overall GPA: 3.78
Position in Class: we don’t get class rank but I’m guessing near the top
Type of Student: female</p>
<p>GRE Scores (revised):
Q: 168/96%
V: 163/93%
W: 6/99%</p>
<p>Research Experience: 3 years of research at my university + 3 summers of research including 2 REU programs. one small publication on a paper with many authors</p>
<p>Awards/Honors/Recognitions: I’m on a half tuition merit scholarship at undergrad</p>
<p>Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA</p>
<p>Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: studied abroad for a semester? don’t know if that helps</p>
<p>Special Bonus Points: some grad classes this year, but those won’t show up on my transcripts.</p>
<p>Depressing, Columbia’s my top choice.</p>
<p>I guess I will call on Monday :(</p>
<p>Why do you love Columbia so much?</p>
<p>Probably not the best reason, but the most obvious one.</p>
<p>location location location?</p>
<p>NYC is a great city, but things here are either you cannot afford or just ****ty. if you wanna enjoy your life, I dont think it is a good place unless you have a lot of money.</p>
<p>Just got an interview invite (via email) for U of chicago, Molecular Biosciences. I applied for the Cell and Molecular Biology program. The interview is Feb 16-18.</p>
<p>I have applied at </p>
<p>Princeton Molecular Biology
Cornell Biophysics
UNC BBSP
Northwestern IBIS
UWash BPSD</p>
<p>Has anybody got calls from above schools ?
especially Princeton Molecular Biology ?</p>
<p>I am very interested in stats of Princeton Molecular Biology</p>
<p>Is it a very famous and a tough program?
How many domestic and international applicants for this one ?</p>
<p>How difficult it is to be selected ?</p>
<p>@bazinga</p>
<p>I’m also applying to Northwestern’s IBiS! </p>
<p>You know, in all the time I’ve spent researching grad schools online or talking with people in my lab about, Princeton never crossed my radar. USNews ranks it #7 overall for biosciences, but it doesn’t rank at all among biochem/cell bio/molecular bio programs. This leads me to believe it is not an elite program in those specializations of biology.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard from Stanford Neuroscience yet?</p>
<p>@Shinyshan : I saw a post on Gradcafe, but nothing here. I’m not sure if they send out invites this early.</p>