2013 Bioscience Admission and Interviews

Graduate School
1021

<p>I just got my 5th interview, how to narrow this down?? Or should I deal and just attend all…I hate to cut a program without having the visit. </p>

<p>Brandeis, UConn (health center), UMass-Worcester, Brown, Tufts(Sackler)</p>

<p>Officially rejected from MIT, assume rejection from Harvard. </p>

<p>I really like all the programs!! I had narrowed it down to 7 before applying- did not expect so many interviews. Plus, what if I cancel one, and then don’t get accepted anywhere…(I know I’m lucky to have this problem but still…)</p>

1022

<p>@feb </p>

<p>Go to every interview you can. You might love a school on paper and get there and hate it. This happened to me last weekend, and I know a lot of people the same. Picking grad school is very personal and a long commitment so you want to make an informed choice. So try to go on every interview!</p>

1023

<p>@february </p>

<p>Did you apply to brown’s mcb program? And if so when did you hear back? I’ve been trying to call them but they never pick up :/</p>

1024

<p>yes Brown MCB, and I heard back about a week and a half ago</p>

1025

<p>I got a wait-list e-mail from Boston University, which is nice.</p>

1026

<p>Anyone read for 10F nights at michigan this weekend? I’m not even sure i have the clothes for that…</p>

1027

<p>Heh yeah, I’m in Indiana, and it was ~5deg F during the day yesterday, and windy. Icky… I’ve heard Minnesota is much worse, so I imagine Michigan’s on the same terrible lines as the rest of the midwest, haha.</p>

1028

<p>@air2147…were you at columbia’s interview last weekend?</p>

1029

<p>I think the admissions rate for Yale BBS might vary by program. I’m applying to computational biology, and my understanding is that they accept most of the people that they interview.</p>

1030

<p>@biotechstudent I am going the weekend of feb 1-3. Did you go last weekend? If so, how was it? Did you like it?</p>

1031

<p>@february, congratulations!! yeah, go to all that you can unless it starts really messing with your work/school schedule.</p>

<p>@biotech and air2147, congrats on getting columbia interviews. have they stopped sending interview invites?</p>

1032

<p>@marymir for the Integrated program at Columbia med school they only have 2 interview weekends… the one last weekend and the one feb 1-3. I spoke to the secretary on the phone recently and she told me that they invited ~60 people total and will accept ~30. I don’t know anything about the columbia life sciences program</p>

1033

<p>@kwijiborjt
do you know anything about the Molecular Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology (MMPP) track?</p>

1034

<p>I found out yesterday I’m at the top of the wait list for Emory’s Cancer Biology program. All I need is just one person to turn down the interview! Ahh. So stressful. This is my top choice and I want it so bad. If anyone got an interview invite and know they plan to go somewhere else, please turn down the interview!</p>

<p>I know that sounds so desperate. Ha. I only applied 4 places though. I’ve been wait listed at Emory and Northwestern and haven’t heard back from the other two yet. I’m so afraid I’m going to not get in anywhere, when I was so close to my dream school.</p>

1035

<p>Has anyone heard anything from the University of Chicago Biomedical Cluster? They are the only one I haven’t heard anything from, and I know a lot of other people on interviews are saying the same. I tried calling, but no on answered or returned my messages.</p>

1036

<p>@air2147 i loved it! the people i interviewed with were very nice and were excited to talk to me about the program. after Friday morning its all about relaxing and touring the city with the grad students! i was so sad when i had to go home!!</p>

1037

<p>Is anyone else still waiting to hear back from schools?</p>

1038

<p>@greenerfields: I pretty much give up on other schools that did not invite me to their interviews. Just focusing on my research now.</p>

1039

<p>@Fishscience101, I haven’t heard anything back from then either. I did email Geoffrey Greene, the chair of their Cancer research program about a week and a half ago and they said they were still making decisions on who to invite.</p>

1040

<p>@fishscience101 and battleidiot</p>

<p>I wrote off UChicago a while ago, figured having a 12/1 deadline they’d be done with invites by now. Guess not?</p>

<p>@greenerfields</p>

<p>I’m still waiting to hear from Tufts, UIC, and NYU. I’m about to write off NYU since it was so competitive last year (>1000 for 45 slots). UIC should be soon (new electronic system is delaying things?) and Tufts has been not helpful in their communication, so we’ll see.</p>