<p>for those waiting on uchicago: darwinian sciences (ceb, e&e, etc) have started reviewing apps, and molecular biosciences just sent another interview invite</p>
<p>@jayeyesee @greanertea</p>
<p>Thanks, very helpful… I feel pretty confident with my responses now as there are multiple labs I would like to work in regardless of program “rank”</p>
<p>@snowbirdie</p>
<p>lol it’s pretty bad. I’m really envious of those who have heard back from all of their schools! Congrats by the way lol. I’m beyond thrilled with the interviews I have but I’m going to be legally insane at the rate I’m checking my e-mail. I just want closure with the rest of my schools… even if they are rejections. Anticipation is killing me lol.</p>
<p>@everyone, how many total interviews are you doing/think are necessary?? how many “reach/top” schools versus “safety” ones?</p>
<p>@seniorspring</p>
<p>I’m going on 4 interviews (I applied to 5 schools and got 4).</p>
<p>I’m not sure how many are really “reach” schools, but I’m interviewing at Yale (BBS), Harvard (Chemical Biology), UW - Madison (Integrated Program in Biochemistry), and UC - San Diego (Chemistry and Biochemistry).</p>
<p>Yale has already said that most people who visit the campus will receive offers of admission. I’ve heard from biochemistry graduate students in my lab that on their interview, the schools told them they were already accepted before they interviewed. Keep in mind - these are chemistry students, not biological sciences students, so the departments may be very different. I believe there are also programs that accept half or less of the interviewed students.</p>
<p>That is not to say you should be well prepared for all of your interviews. </p>
<p>I guess would consider Harvard my “reach”, but I’m very hopeful and UC - San Diego is probably my “safety”</p>
<p>I have kind of a weird question…will schools reimburse you for the cost of taxi-ing to the airport? I have not seen anything about in any emails I’ve received concerning travel arrangements.</p>
<p>@seniorspring, I have 8 interviews. I believe UCSF, MIT, Weill Cornell and Columbia reject post-interview, so I guess you can call those reach? Interviewed with Upenn last week and they said they accept most applicants post interview. Other schools I’m interviewing at are UT Austin, Stanford and UChicago, and I don’t know much about their acceptance rates after interview. I consider them all very good schools that I’m genuinely interested in, so I don’t know if I would call any of them safeties. I feel like the “necessary” number of interviews should be as many schools as you’d genuinely consider going to.</p>
<p>@lost in elysia, I think you’d definitely get reimbursed, just make sure you get a receipt. Most of the programs who have contacted me have offered to reimburse as long as you turn in the original receipt.</p>
<p>@greenertea, holy crap! 8 interviews already? Congrats!!! I am 1 for 10 right now ahh</p>
<p>Any Bioinformatics people heard from Harvard Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics or Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences?</p>
<p>3 interviews out of 9 applications so far.</p>
<p>1 rejection…waiting on 5 more (3 of them had due dates Jan 1st or later). I probably (90% chance) got rejected from 1 that I have not received a response from, others are still in the air.</p>
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You can generally submit all receipts related to your travels and expect to be reimbursed, unless the school specifically tells you otherwise.</p>
<p>@greenertea- When are you doing your interview at UT Austin? I’m going down next week. I asked what their acceptance rates after interview were, and they said that they’re able to make offers to everyone that they invite to interview. They don’t interview more people than they have spots for. So, unless we screw up our interviews or something else happens, we’ve basically got a spot. Just wanted to butt in and tell you that. Maybe I’ll see you down there.</p>
<p>@biochemchic Do you know whether UT Austin have sent out all their interviews already??</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I’m not sure. I know that they only have two interview weekends, Jan 26-28 and Feb 16-18. I received an invitation to interview via e-mail on December 19 from the Biochemistry adcom chair. I would e-mail the graduate recruitment coordinator, Brooke Graham, and ask her, as she would probably know.</p>
<p>Called Yale Microbio track, all invites have been sent out.
My scorecard thus far:
NYU-
BU-
Einstein-
Tufts- interview
UCONN-interview
Imperial Wellcome-
Oxford department-ship-
Oxford Wellcome-
NIH GPP Georgetown- Interview
NIH GPP GWU- Rejected
NIH OxCam- presuming rejection
Rockefeller- presuming rejection
Yale- Rejected
Columbia- Rejected</p>
<p>Haha, I would say “within reason.” I took a taxi from LAX to Caltech both ways (was going to book a shuttle for the return trip, but had one too many tequila shots at the recruitment party…) and accumulated $220 in taxi receipts. Caltech was nice enough to split it with me, reimbursing for $110</p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything from UTSW Neuro or UC Davis Neuro yet?</p>
<p>According to GradCafe there are a couple UC Davis interview invites, but I hope they’re still processing.</p>
<p>Interview at UCR and UCSD neuro.</p>
<p>Caltech bio invite today. Yay!</p>
<p>Hey all, </p>
<p>Has anyone here applied and heard back from Emory’s Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department, U. Washington Microbiology Dept. or Albert Einstein’s Microbiology & Immunology Dept.? </p>
<p>When I last contacted these programs they were still reviewing apps…</p>