<p>@ greengenes
Thank you for your information.
I applied for the Ph.D. program of Pharmacology. It seems that neuroscience program and other biology related program often sends out invitation earlier. But since most programs of Tufts send out invitation recently, I should be expecting to get one from the program of pharmacology too or I must be rejected.
So I am now waiting for an invitation or a rejection letter. :/</p>
<p>I submitted my NYU app. very late Nov. and got an invite a couple of days prior to 12/25.</p>
<p>Not sure if that helps or not.</p>
<p>Also, from an email recently sent to me, Tufts programs are still reviewing. No need to be dejected. :)</p>
<p>well It seems that different programs of NYU are taking different strategies. All that I can do is waiting and preparing for the interviews that are coming.
Plus I learned just now people should not surf the internet while cooking. it is not good for your dinner. :)</p>
<p>@Jayeyesee</p>
<p>Sorry! Totally forgot GRE info!</p>
<p>General: V700 (97%) Q780 (88%) W4.5 (72%)
Biochem subject test: 86%
Also, that is my overall GPA. My major GPA is 3.10</p>
<p>Hope that helps a bit in your evaluation</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from Columbia Neuroscience?</p>
<p>@littlemouse
I also applied to NYU-Sackler (molecular biology) but haven’t received an invite. I was reading through the Sackler website and found this " Evaluation for admission to the different programs is processed by the individual program admissions committees…" Perhaps the admission committees for the programs we applied to haven’t met yet? That’s what I’m hoping for. Hopefully we’ll hear something soon! </p>
<p>[Admissions</a> Information | Ph.D Program | Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences | NYU School of Medicine](<a href=“http://sackler.med.nyu.edu/graduate/admissions/admissions-information]Admissions”>http://sackler.med.nyu.edu/graduate/admissions/admissions-information)</p>
<p>Columbia sent out interview invites on 12/23.</p>
<p>@cypress</p>
<p>I saw it on gradcafe, but I was wondering if you know anyone who got an invite.
The ad-rep told me (~ Dec. 20th) it’s unlikely that they would send out invites before christmas.</p>
<p>There was a uchicago molecular biosciences invite on graduate Dec 20th - anyone hear anything or just that one post? Idk how t workable cause I applied to two clusters there, molbio as 2nd</p>
<p>my Chicago interview is on Dec 23-25</p>
<p>I saw someone talking about Berkeley in the previous page. a school will invite more than 130 students to interview? That’s a lot of people.
I thought every program accepted most students invited to interview. I talked to a friend and she told me something about the program that she enrolled last year. 16 students were invited to interview and 13 students were accepted. Is that just true for some programs? Does most program reject a lot of people?</p>
<p>It depends on the program, but I was under the assumption that most schools have low acceptance rates post-interview. I can not say with complete confidence.</p>
<p>Mmm Berkeley’s invite said a max of 65 for each of the two dates, but that doesn’t mean they invited 130 students…they just don’t want everyone on the same date…also, everyone I’ve talked to, include professors, say that admit rates after interviews are generally quite high.</p>
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<p>also what i’ve heard… generally high admit rates post-interview for MOST programs. i’m sure there are a couple programs out there that don’t adhere to the same admit rates although i personally think it’s a waste of money to fly students out and feed them for 2-3 days only to reject them (unless they are absolutely crazy or bomb the interviews).</p>
<p>@Neurotheory: I got an email invitation from them on 12/23, but maybe they are sending them out in waves? The possible dates were Feb 9-11 and March 1-3. Good luck!</p>
<p>@eneffKbee</p>
<p>Your GRE scores are great and you have solid research experience. Your GPA is really your only setback. I still think you have a shot at the schools I mentioned earlier. I can only speculate though… It’s impossible to determine for sure whether you’ll get in or not since graduate school admissions is a completely different beast from undergraduate admissions. A lot more factors that go into it: LORs, SOP, GPA, GRE, research experience, etc…). Maybe others can speak for the other schools. Hope you get more invites soon! Good luck!</p>
<p>About Yale invites. BBS is the unified program, but admissions are still decided by department within each track. I applied to BBSB, (Biochemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology) which might not be the same track you applied to.</p>
<p>They all have different deadlines and the only program mentioned here from Yale that responded back was MCGD, which I do not know about. Email was sent out by the graduate admissions director who said there will be a follow up email with further instructions. I don’t know any details beyond the dates at the moment.</p>
<p>@ asinine: </p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification. I was confused whether invites were sent by the program as a whole or by the individual tracks.</p>
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<p>I’ll chime in with the others and mention that I’ve never gotten that impression, whereas the med school process for example strongly gives this impression even considering how little I know about that…</p>
<p>Some may be relatively lower than the norm. But I’ve always been under the impression that a program with “low” acceptance rates post-admission (lets say even <50%) is pretty uncommon. Anyone have actual figures concerning this?</p>
<p>@little mouse</p>
<p>Yes, Berkeley is indeed interviewing between 120-130 people. They are aiming for a class of about 40. Normally, the accept 3x that number, so 120 acceptances is a good number. They admit that many people because not everyone who gets accepted will go there. They lose students to other top programs. The acceptance rate is pretty high, so if you have an interview you already have your foot in the door. You have to royally f-up the interview to be one of those 10 people who get rejected. Most schools are supposed to operate in a similar manner. However, there are some schools who reject a big number of applicants post interviews.</p>