<p>@ GradSchoolYayy</p>
<p>I emailed the admissions department of UCSF-Tetrad and got this response:</p>
<p>“Our admissions committee has completed its review of the applications. Due to an unprecedented volume of excellent applications this year, we have been forced to decline applications from many worthy candidates, and your application did not make it into the final selection process.”</p>
<p>:-\ I guess i’m rejected too</p>
<p>Also got the Stanford Chemical/Systems Biology interview. So excited, this was my first choice! I was starting to get worried, since people have been getting the Biosciences requests for a few days - they’re still coming, so good luck to everyone waiting to hear from Stanford!</p>
<p>@evobio that’s comforting considering I applied to both lol</p>
<p>Is it safe to assume that all the invites have gone out for MIT Biology?</p>
<p>mit bioengineering actually said they have only done one round of reviews and have another one tomorrow…</p>
<p>dunno about biology though</p>
<p>@jamaicanguy101 I applied the PBEE&GMB programs. I guess I am kind of on a waiting list at present since no rej or interview has been heard.</p>
<p>Wait…so TETRAD only did one round of invites?! Wow… :(</p>
<p>Word on the (CC) street was that TETRAD (and Berkeley MCB) wanted to send out all invitations before the winter break. Current TETRAD students were given the list of all invited applicants one week ago, so all the initial invitations were obviously made before then.</p>
<p>Who knows, TETRAD could conceivably send out a few more invites depending on how many invitees decline to interview.</p>
<p>Anyone read/hear any invites from any UC neurosciences?</p>
<p>@xbenxx</p>
<p>Last year, it looks like MIT Biology only sent out on one day… </p>
<p>Also just got my FedEx package from Rockefeller!!!</p>
<p>@molbio2012 - congrats! Sooo jealous!</p>
<p>((for my sake, hoping youre east coast… Lol))</p>
<p>@coolmint I know??? I’m waiting on UC Neuro and its killing me. But I haven’t seen any for the schools I applied to…thinking this is going to be the week!!!</p>
<p>Anyone heard anything from Caltech Bio and Yale BBS?</p>
<p>I just saw this on gradcafe and I thought I’d share it for people who haven’t seen it. It certainly makes me feel better about the rejection. This is a message from UW(Seattle) MCB </p>
<p>“Because we received over 470 applications to our Program and are only interviewing 70, the competition was very strong. The Committee did not write comments for the denials made but I can tell you that they were looking for applicants with high GPAs (3.5+), high GRE scores (88th percentile), excellent references regarding research experience in labs at good institutions as well as strong personal statements.”</p>
<p>I did not meet the 88th percentile GRE scores… Wonder if my app was even considered lol.</p>
<p>Atleast you got a response. I haven not heard back from UW MCB yet… it looks like no love from my alma mater :(</p>
<p>@jayeyesee</p>
<p>I know that some people got interviews without meeting that GRE requirement at UW-MCB…</p>
<p>@pumiliod</p>
<p>Take no news as good news at this point!</p>
<p>@fliegbieg: Harvard BBS will be sending out invites later this week.</p>
<p>@jayeyesee: although those are the level of statistics that most adcoms look for, my understanding is that most programs do not have a hard cutoff for GRE or GPA. The only cutoff I’ve heard of is a hard lower limit on TOEFL score. You can have a 50% and still get a look, but your chances would not be particularly good.</p>
<p>xiv21: Thank you very much for the info!!!</p>
<p>@mobio2012: On GradCafe some people say that they heard from MIT Biology last Friday. Since I didn’t and Monday’s gone too, I am assuming I am rejected. Plus everyone does seems to have heard on the same day too.
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