<p>RE: Harvard invites</p>
<p>I head from harvard virology back on dec 8th, but didn’t post anything then. probably not good if you haven’t head anything from them at this point since interview is in two weeks</p>
<p>Wow, congrats everyone. No word on my end from any of my cali schools (Stanford biosciences, USCF BMS, Scripps immunology, UCI, UCLA Access, UC Berkeley). Guess I’m doomed to be rejected from everywhere</p>
<p>What is the most amount of prospective students that you’ve heard have been invited to a single interview weekend? Clearly this number varies depending on which program you are applying to, but whats the most you’ve heard/experienced yourself? </p>
<p>Reason is because I have 8 interviews for one school for their interview weekend and I imagine it would be hard for all the professors to meet with 60+ students to interview all in one day (especially since every student will be talking with 8 professors).</p>
<p>Also how many students will a school typically admit to fill a spot? Is it usually between 2-3 students per 1 spot open? Since not everyone admitted with likely attend, I expect they do need to accept more than their target class size.</p>
<p>@goaliejoe - is that interview weekend for every program though or just yours?</p>
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Harvard Virology is also a separate program from Harvard BBS, with a separate admissions process.</p>
<p>The Harvard Division of Medical Sciences has four programs: Virology, Immunology, Neuroscience, and BBS. All four programs have totally independent admissions and interview processes.</p>
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Each professor doesn’t meet with all students – students are assigned to meet with professors according to their interests. So a given professor might have five or six interviews in a day, or he might only have one (or none). </p>
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They’ll admit according to their yield in past years, whatever that has been. I guess in my program it is about twice as many students as the target class.</p>
<p>Any internationals who have heard back from neuro programs? They don’t seem to like us…</p>
<p>Interview March 1-3 for UChicago Molecular Biosciences! Notified via email this morning</p>
<p>Does anyone know how admissions works at uchicago for multiple cluster preferences? I put darwinian sciences 1 and molecular 2. Molecular has sent out invites but darwinian hasn’t. If I don’t get darwinian will it be too late for molecular?</p>
<p>@NeuroTheory</p>
<p>International here and haven’t heard from any program I applied to (not neuro programs though) My hopes are they review international applications later.</p>
<p>Yeah I was just talking about the virology program to add that to neuroscience for harvard programs that people have heard from</p>
<p>For internationals, I think it also depends on whether you are located in the US as most schools will invite you to the same recruitment weekends as domestic students. I’m an international in the US, and I already have 3 invites I received before the holidays (not neuro). I am still waiting to hear back from 7 other schools. Honestly, I think it is too early in the game for anyone to panic. Every school is different and let me emphasize again it is still too early! My PI who is head of admissions at my school told me that he was surprised I had already heard back from 3 different schools.</p>
<p>anyone know what’s going on with northwestern IBIS? I saw that there were some interview invitations on gradcafe, but not sure if they are done sending out invites. could they maybe be sending them out by specialization?</p>
<p>@oscarmeyer</p>
<p>Regarding Northwestern IBiS, I received a phone call from a faculty member whom I mentioned in my personal statement and listed on my application. This indicates to me that invitations were not delegated to people in an office who spent a day or two contacting everyone. It’s reassuring that interview invites are divvied up to faculty members, some of whom may wait until the last minute to contact prospective students.</p>
<p>@Dengue : </p>
<p>Some schools do review internationals later. But I’m wondering how many of these first round invites are for non-citizens. I don’t see a lot in gradcafe</p>
<p>oscarmeyer: i was told during my call (on the 2nd) that they are doing rolling interview invites. On gradcafe there is an interview invite a couple of days before and after mine, so there’s still a chance they’re not finished. I would imagine they’re close to finished (if not finished), but who knows. Their first interview weekend is still almost a month away.</p>
<p>@Calberk I’m also international in USA so far I only heard back from NYU slacker. How about you???</p>
<p>@julioyap</p>
<p>Interviews:
Cornell (BBS)
Columbia (BCMB - Immuno/Micro track)
Northwestern (IGP)</p>
<p>I heard from all of them before the holidays. </p>
<p>Waiting on 7 more schools. I hate waiting! We should start an international thread like they had last year. International admissions is seriously a whole different game.</p>
<p>@julioyap</p>
<p>Forgot to say congrats on your interview 
I wanted to apply to NYU, but I was flat broke after 10 apps. I could not afford any more.</p>
<p>invitation from MIT BioE and UChicago BSD and previously from MIT Bio, haven’t heard from other 7 programs that I’m applying to.</p>
<p>Do you guys reply to the E-mail right away to thank the PIs? I have two mass emails and one personalized email.</p>
<p>just joining in here - glad to see we are all neurotic about checking our emails. </p>
<p>I’m waiting on harvard HILS - MCO and BBS
and NIH OxCam
… anyone heard from these programs?</p>
<p>Also, I was browsing the forums, and I got an interview invite from Stanford Dec 20th by phone and a follow up email this week. Hope to see some of you there on the 29th!</p>