<p>@OopsIdiditAgain</p>
<p>Last year, Rockefeller’s deadline to mail things out was the first week in February.</p>
<p>Don’t be stressed out on your interviews! Getting one is the biggest hurdle! You’re almost there :)</p>
<p>@nrds35 congrats! was it a personalized email? or was it a wave of invites sent out? i applied to the open program as well, haven’t heard anything. </p>
<p>frustration…</p>
<p>@guialera-I think I submitted super early like middle of September.</p>
<p>@dietcokehead7-it was not a personalized email for sure. I wouldn’t worry as they are continuing to give interviews.</p>
<p>my son apllied only five schools,
Harvard System biology
Princeton QCB Quantitative and Computational biology
MIT CSBi Computational and system biology
UCSF integrative program in quantitative biology ibqb
Stanford university chemical and system biology CSB</p>
<p>He only heart from Princeton QCM this Tuesday for interview. I am more worry than he is. I think each sub-division in each school sent out invitation separately. Does any one apply the same school ?</p>
<p>@GradSchoolYay: Even if they are meeting today, that probably means that interview invites won’t go out until next week. It does take some time to turn it around.</p>
<p>anyone else get an einstein invite today? just noticed one popped up on gradcafe</p>
<p>I also just got an invite from MIT Biology. Gotta figure out which of the three interview weekends to go to. You can choose stay either with a current student or in a hotel. Which do you guys think is better?</p>
<p>rxhu123: I applied to Harvard Systems Biology and MIT CSB. MIT sent out a wave of rejections on Dec 21, so I think that means that if you’ve not heard from them then you’ve made the first cut (not sure what that means exactly). And Harvard should be sending out invites pretty soon.</p>
<p>Sarbruis, Thank you</p>
<p>can people also say what ethnicity they are? i think we forgot that that can play a large role in admissions</p>
<p>einstein invite! first one. feb 9/10 or 16/17.</p>
<p>seniorspring: this doesn’t play any role at all in admissions. You’re not required to tell them your ethnicity when you apply.</p>
<p>@dietcokehead yeah just got Einstein today</p>
<p>I agree with sarbruis. I don’t think your race/ethnicity plays a large role in admissions decisions. I think research experience and potential to be a successful scientist plays a large role in admissions.</p>
<p>@seniorspring, Although I agree with what people have said that this is not a big part of admissions, if it helps I’m Asian. I doubt that it makes a big impact on my application though.</p>
<p>While I’m at it, I’ve posted this question on gradcafe but I might as well as here: does it matter which of the three invite weekends you go to for MIT if they give you the option? Is there an advantage to going to the first one over the last one?</p>
<p>sarbruis: you are wrong. every single application i did asked for my ethnicity, and they all even had separate, specific questions asking if you were hispanic or not.</p>
<p>dont you remember college apps?</p>
<p>Filling that part out was elective for my applications. I just checked a random app of mine (Northwestern) and here’s what it says:</p>
<p>Race Ethnicity:
Your response to the questions below is voluntary.</p>
<p>(And that’s how it was on every application. Yes, I do remember them.)</p>
<p>i am not saying this is how it should be, however maybe you are naive if you think race plays no role in admissions. affirmative action is everywhere, undergrad and grad admissions committees, and jobs. ive seen certain minorities be recruited to top companies that other people could not even apply to. i saw a kid from my high school flown out to stanford for “diversity recruitment” despite his poor grades</p>
<p>U. Iowa invite! </p>
<p>Worrying about next semester with all the school being missed.</p>
<p>Graduate admissions is much different from undergraduate admissions. But this topic isn’t germane, so let’s not derail the thread.</p>