<p>sunmaya,</p>
<p>i applied to the BMS program and listed cancer bio as my area of interest...based on what I have seen online (from this forum and others) I think that UCSD sends out interview invitations multiple times so i certainly wouldn't consider yourself "out" until at least a few weeks from now. Good luck!</p>
<p>Also, I turned in my "pre-application" in like october, but didn't finish the real application until last week of Nov.</p>
<p>Thanks tvgradschool. I am keeping my fingers crossed!!!</p>
<p>MCBartist - you and me both, dude(tte). Judging by your username, I think we're applying to the same dept. at Harvard. Interviews are definitely organized by dept. there, so the fact that people have heard from Virology or Systems Biology already doesn't mean we'll necessarily be receiving rejections. Ditto for Stanford, unless you know that your Home Program has already started responding. And even then! Hang in there.</p>
<p>so for all of these people who got interviews, how many publications in a journal did you get?</p>
<p>0, but i have a lot of research experience in high quality labs.</p>
<p>0 - publications are nice, but you don't need them to get into top grad programs.</p>
<p>0- the graduate chair of my schools bio dept. laughed when I asked him if it would be a problem that I had not been published. He went on to tell me about a grad student who was hired for a tenure track job without any publications.</p>
<p>Graduate admissions committees know that there is a good deal of luck involved in being published as an undergrad (i.e. what type of lab you work in, how your PI feels about publishing, or more importantly that your PI is actually publishing papers). </p>
<p>Being published can certainly be a big plus, however, tons of people get into the top schools without any publications.</p>
<p>Help! For anyone who got an interview at Penn (CAMB). The email asks "how you will be traveling" but does not say anywhere that they will be making travel arrangements for me. I'm not sure how to respond to this and was wondering if anyone knew what they meant by that? I'm assuming that they would pay for airfare and stuff, but unlike the other interview emails I received, they don't say that directly. </p>
<p>One more thing. I also received an interview at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It's on a Monday and Tuesday, which is terrible for me. The thing is that it is my "safety school" and since I already have interviews at Columbia, NYU, and Penn, I'm not sure if I really want to make the effort to travel from Ithaca to NY 3 times in one month. Should I just suck it up and go just in case, or turn it down?</p>
<p>Cornelli, for Penn, you need to buy the tickets yourself and then send in the receipts to get reimbursed. On the interview weekend webpage, you can download the appropriate reimbursement form. Are you visiting this week?</p>
<p>Hi everyone, here are the schools I applied to (Genetics, or anything related to it):</p>
<p>Applied - Weill Cornell, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, UPenn, Princeton, JHU</p>
<p>Accepted - Yale (1/10)</p>
<p>Interviews - Weill Cornell (12/26), UPenn (1/11)</p>
<p>Rejected - </p>
<p>My question is: I seen that people have applied and already heard from Stanford and Harvard...did you guys apply really early to these schools? I sent in my applications pretty much the night before or the day of the due date. Is this why I haven't gotten any response whatsoever?</p>
<p>Harvard you're definitely okay- unless you applied to Harvard systems biology, in which case they already sent out all of their interview invites. They have not sent out BBS acceptances to my knowledge.</p>
<p>Stanford is a little more iffy- I know people who applied to various home departments who have all heard already (Genetics, Cancer Biology, DevBio), but who knows? The interview isn't until the end of February.</p>
<p>DevBio huh? Crud.</p>
<p>Cool beans, thanks ec1234!</p>
<p>I think we had a discussion about this earlier in this thread. But my friend has gotten an acceptance to harvard BBS already and has been invited for interviews at Stanford and UCSF.</p>
<p>Hi all, I'm new here! </p>
<p>Does anyone know if UCSF tetrad has multiple interview invitations? I didn't get an interview invitation like some other people here, but a professor of mine had been very very sick and was only able to get my recommendation off to them at the beginning of last week, and they said that was OK. Any guesses as whether I'm still yet to hear?</p>
<p>ahh... flying from Ithaca is very expensive. I don't think I can afford a plane ticket unless I get reimbursed right away since I have rent due too. My interview weekend isn't until the end of February. What should I do? I have a car, so I can drive down there I guess, but I wouldn't know what to do with my car when I got there, and flying is a lot easier (and shorter)</p>
<p>Got accepted from UC-Berkeley chem. Dept. today</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that harvard hasn't sent out all their BBS acceptances, as I know my friends and I applied to dms-genetics as well as systems, and I would imagine that at least some of us would get interviews/acceptances at both, considering that systems is more selective. </p>
<p>I don't know about tetrad- I know that they have two weekends, Feb 1 and Feb 22nd- one of my friends only got invited to Feb 1, one only got invited to Feb 22nd, and I got to choose.. so I don't know how they decide.</p>
<p>Yeah ec1234, I remember reading on a thread from last year that different BBS tracks called up their admittees on different dates. I also think people were still waiting to hear from some BBS tracks in February.</p>
<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>I am new but have been lurking in the inky black shadows. I got waitlisted at the UW MCB program, so if you aren't planning on going or have way better offers you should really consider canceling so that I can have a shot? Pretty please!</p>