<p>@micromacro I hear you. Finalizing plans for three interviews combined with three rejections in 12 hours yesterday.</p>
<p>Hello!
GRE - V149 Q168 AW3.0, TOEFL - 104
GPA - 4.45/5.00
3 year research experience. silver 39 IChO.</p>
<p>got interview invites from dbbs.wustl and weill cornell med. college.</p>
<p>waiting from harvard biophysics, stanford struct biol, columbia biolog sci, yale mbb, caltech, OSU, illinois bcb and upenn physiology.</p>
<p>did anyone get invitation from stanford(struct biol) and harvard(biophysics program)?</p>
<p>just received Thomas Jefferson invite for Molecular Pharma/Structural Bio. Jan 26-27.</p>
<p>@AliG - I doubt that anyone here really “knows 110%” what is going on with any admission committee …</p>
<p>It is useful for people who are trying to plan out their interviews though, to know if there’s a low probability a school is still sending invites… For example: when Yale finally sent the details, they did it via mass mail and there were 45 people invited (all the names showed on the email). I asked them to switch me to their other weekend, and got the mass mail for that weekend with 45 different names. I can say with relative confidence, I think that all 90 of Yale’s domestic applicants to that program have been notified and you should probably not get your hopes up for it unless you are international or have some special circumstance. Does that mean I know for sure that the program won’t send out another round of invites? He’ll no - I don’t know anything about the program. But it is still useful information to people who might have been saving a weekend for Yale at the expense of being able to interview some place else…</p>
<p>I’m not so sure about that. MCGD here is huge (i work there), approx 33 spots for that program alone. 90 interviewees for all programs in BBS actually sounds low to me. Granted, I don’t know ANYTHING about the adcom and where they stand with reviews but if you haven’t heard a peep on here or gradcafe about a less popular program than I say give the office of the track a call.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that it’s 90 spots for all of the Yale BBS invites.
Each track did their invites separately, and all of my emails from the BBSB track do not show the other applicants that have been invited - even the mass emails about making travel arrangements.</p>
<p>Emory BBS is essentially the only program I havent heard from at this point. Has anyone got interviews for this program and if so when are the dates. I’ve ruled this program out, but I was just curious.</p>
<p>Not trying to be snarky, but you’re all planning on being scientists, right? Handling a little conflicting information, dealing with apparent contradictions, and evaluating sources of knowledge is what you do almost every day.</p>
<p>We’re all stressed, so I understand your agitation. Personally, though, I would much rather everyone post what they’ve experienced and I’ll sort out the information myself, thanks. The more the better.</p>
<p>@yerdos I actually think Stanford Structural Biology/Biophysics still <em>only</em> sends snail mail? I could be wrong but I remember someone telling me that (at Stanford).</p>
<p>Anyone else waiting on an email from UCSF CCB today? I’m anticipating a rejection. Sad.</p>
<p>@Bunyabum, which program are you wondering about in Emory BBS?</p>
<p>@micromacro
I keep seeing people posting about UCSD BMS but haven’t heard anything yet 
When I called them on Tuesday, they were “still reviewing applications through the end of the month”. It’s making me so anxious and nervous! Congrats on getting an interview though!!</p>
<p>As many of us as there are on sites like this and gradcafe, we make up a pretty small proportion of the total applicant pools for these programs. The majority (data not shown) of people going through this stressful waiting period are doing so possibly a bit more “in the dark” than we are, relying only on maybe friends in the programs they’re applying to, or stats from previous years. </p>
<p>I think by participating in these forums we acknowledge that we’re trading in “110% information accuracy” for small glimpses of additional info. As sysbio points out (scientist or not), you’re going to have to figure out how sort the information yourself. Given that the gradcafe survey has had entries such as “I applied to the Stanford Gayness phd program because this is totally gay” (quickly removed), there is obviously trolling to be had. Some of it might be slightly more cryptic and actually misleading. But that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate, and things like Oops’s comment are exactly what some people browse these forums for. Take it with the appropriately sized grain of salt.</p>
<p>Biophysical, I’m here with you waiting on UCSF CCB. You think rejections will go out today too? Somebody said in a past post that they hope to notify everybody by next week.</p>
<p>At this point, I just want to hear back on all my applications, positive or negative, so I can get back to being a regular, non stressed college student. </p>
<p>Sent from my SGH-T989 using CC App</p>
<p>I’m not sure if it’s the same for other programs in UCSF, but Tetrad never sent out a rejection letter to me. They just updated my status on their website to “declined”.</p>
<p>I know that some of the other programs actually did send out rejection letters, but apparently that isn’t necessarily a common courtesy.</p>
<p>@Nanodrops- I believe it was the immuno tract and or the genetics path.</p>
<p>@shanV</p>
<p>I saw that Boston U micro sent an invitation to somebody last week on gradcafe results. But that doesn’t mean they’re done yet, so hang on. I got an invite to one school two weeks before the other interview invites went up on the results page.</p>
<p>About trolling on the grad apps boards: yes, it exists. A few weeks ago, I saw a person claim to get admitted to a really exclusive program and I’m sure it didn’t happen, since the committee at that school hadn’t met yet. Use your critical thinking skills when you’re on the internet, and run stuff by an advisor or something. I’ve seen people post some really strange advice on grad cafe, as well. Sometimes I wonder if people are just messing with people for the hell of it.</p>
<p>UPenn CAMB first interview weekend is happening right now.</p>
<p>Just got an invitation to the open house for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Neuroscience Feb 17-19. </p>
<p>Conflicts with my Tufts interview though…</p>
<p>Just got an interview invite from UPenn neuroscience.</p>