<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I applied to BME PhD grad schools and got an interview at Columbia (thet invited me to visiting weekend and said theyd p[ay upto $500 for transportation).</p>
<p>I was just wondering, as far BME PhD's go, which % get rejected, accepted, and waitlisted after being invited for an interview?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>From what I gather, it should be pretty high. Michigan had two rounds of interviews, about ~25 students each round of interviews. Last year they said they sent out roughly ~50-55 acceptances with the expectation that 50% of students would end up going there. Thus, the chances of getting into a school once invited seem to be high from what most people were talking about at the school. I could be completely wrong so take whatever you want out of what I wrote.</p>
<p>gravenewworld ,</p>
<p>Does ~50-55 mean 50-55 were were accepted or that 50-55% of people interviewed were accepted?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>~55 interviews, ~50 accepted, ~25 accepted students actually accepted the admissions offer.</p>
<p>Wow. Thats great!</p>
<p>I think it’s very school program specific. I’ve seen it range from 10-80%. I was originally told by my friends in grad programs that it’d be 50+% accepted easy, but I found out that range was more for their field, and mine trended to a much lower percent. Unfortunately there’s no way to make any kind of estimate (even ballpark) unless you know the numbers from a program’s prior years.</p>
<p>Yeah – for my discipline, some schools will accept around 30% of those interviewed, most around 50% of those interviewed, and for the school that I’m most likely matriculating to, they preferentially interview based on how competitive their applicants are (those on top of the list are interviewed first, then down a list), so historically, they’ve accepted close to 100% of those interviewed.</p>
<p>So I would take gravenworld’s datum with a grain of salt.</p>