<p>Harvard BBS is making phone calls today and sending out FedEx packages to accepted students today and tomorrow</p>
<p>Applied: MIT, Harvard (MCB and BBS), Yale (MCBGD), Stanford (Bio), Rockefeller, Hopkins</p>
<p>Interviews: MIT, Stanford (Biology), Harvard (MCB)</p>
<p>Accepted: Harvard (BBS), Yale (MCBGD)</p>
<p>amc85,
i applied to computational biology/bioinformatics at yale. still no word.</p>
<p>Anyone heard back from Harvard Immunology?</p>
<p>Hey tvgradschool.</p>
<p>I applied to Harvard (HBTM) also!</p>
<p>Harvard and Berkeley MCB, whoo!</p>
<p>Question - is the only Harvard weekend the 6th through the 9th? I'm already set for Washington that weekend. I asked if they had an alternate, so I guess I'll find out tomorrow.</p>
<p>What is the best way (ie- most polite, least likely to burn bridges) to back out of an interview after you have agreed to it and they have the flight reservations all ready. Are you required to pay them back for the cost of the flight?
I know mollie mentioned having done this last year...</p>
<p>stardash,</p>
<p>have you heard anything yet?</p>
<p>mutation - I've heard (from an admissions director) to send the school an email, tell them that you cannot attend (in some polite way), and OFFER to repay the cost of the flight. It's unlikely that the school will actually ask you to repay. If they do, just eat the cost and enjoy your interviews.</p>
<p>unfortunately, no.</p>
<p>Is anyone planning on meeting up with people from these boards (or other ones?) at their interview weekends? I know we have a lot in common.</p>
<p>Applied: UWash (MCB), Yale (MCGD-BBS), Harvard (MCB), Berkeley (MCB), UWisconsin-Madison (CMB), UChicago (Mol. Biosciences), UOregon (Biology), Indiana University (Biology), NYU (FAS-Biology)</p>
<p>Accepted: Yale (visiting Feb. 14-17)</p>
<p>Interviews: UChicago (Jan. 31- Feb 2), UWashington (Feb. 6th-9th), Yale (Feb. 14-17), UC-Berkeley (Feb. 23-26), UWisconsin-Madison (Mar. 6th-9th), Harvard (whenever I can)</p>
<p>Would it be crazy to not interview at Harvard? I think the only one I would be willing to drop from my list is UWisconsin. I'm a little scared that I wouldn't survive Harvard if I went there.</p>
<p>thanks for the tip aevertts. it makes me feel bad to turn someone down but i guess it is better to let them know now so they can invite others. </p>
<p>also, congratulations everyone on your awesome responses!</p>
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Honestly, I just emailed and said I wasn't coming. I don't think it's necessary even to offer to pay them back -- after all, if you actually came and had no intention of attending, they'd be wasting even more money on you.</p>
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I know MCB has another weekend -- my baymate is MCB and she told me the dates, but I don't remember what they were.</p>
<p>Why don't you think you could survive Harvard? I mean, we don't eat puppies or kittens all that often. ;)</p>
<p>Hey GeGe,</p>
<p>I heard back from the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia on December 14th that I got an interview there on January 25th. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone!</p>
<p>Did anyone hear from Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley Biophysics??</p>
<p>Does anyone know how students enter the BBS program? Do you start off affiliated with a particular department, and get priority for joining labs in only that department? Or do you enter the program as a whole and join a department by the end of the first year? I've been looking endlessly on the website, trying to figure out which way it works.</p>
<p>No, the department you join initially is really just an administrative thing (it helps decide which NIH training grant you'll be on), and once you're in the program, you can rotate with anyone in BBS. First-year students are really considered general BBS students, and they're invited on every department's retreats. It's only second year when you join a lab that you're really considered "in" a department.</p>
<p>Actually, if you're in BBS, you can not only rotate with all of the BBS faculty, you can rotate with and join the labs of any of the life sciences faculty at Harvard.</p>
<p>"Actually, if you're in BBS, you can not only rotate with all of the BBS faculty, you can rotate with and join the labs of any of the life sciences faculty at Harvard."</p>
<p>Hey molliebatmit, is this true for grad students in MCB as well or only in BBS? I liked the core curriculum on MCB better, but some of the BBS faculty are doing really interesting research...and my interview is with MCB.</p>
<p>How does that rule translate into reality, though? Wouldn't it be much more difficult to arrange a rotation in a lab outside of BBS (in MCB for instance) because of the priority that their students get? From the website, I know that it's possible, but I wonder whether it's probable.</p>
<p>By the way, thank you for the info, molliebatmit.</p>
<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>Congrats on all your interviews. </p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from UCB Neuro, Stanford Neuro, UCSD Neuro, or have any idea if they notify everyone of interviews on the same day? Am I totally out for this year? So sad.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone has heard from UCSD yet..</p>
<p>Applied: Weill-Cornell (BCMB), JHU (BCMB), Yale (BBS), UCSD (Biomed), UW (MCB), WUSTL (DBBS), UMass Worcester (GSBS)
Interviews: Cornell 2/21, JHU 1/24, WUSTL 3/7
Denied: UW</p>