<p>hey scatter, i also am wait listed. Sounds like the e-mail was sent to a rather large list. At least they've notified people relatively early.</p>
<p>Hi amc85, </p>
<p>Yeah, it seems that even within this small sample of people, there are quite a few of us. Oh well, we'll just have to wait it out... Thanks for letting me know, though!</p>
<p>yeah, got wailisted at Yale too.</p>
<p>Columbia's biological sciences faculty are still meeting regarding the interview pool ... my PI keeps escaping to go to those meetings :P</p>
<p>And in response to some posts a while back: Columbia's various health sciences (ie, every bio-related discipline except for biological sciences) programs are independently run under their own departments. I know Biochem had their interview last weekend, Pharmacology & Cell/Pathobiology are doing it this weekend, and others have yet to send out interview invites. Kind of confusing, but that's just the way it is ...</p>
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I was lucky during my MIT interview weekend, because it was like 45 degrees, and wearing a skirt wasn't totally prohibitive. I think I pulled out the khakis for all events that really involved walking outside, though. I mean, I'm brave, but I'm not that brave. :) </p>
<p>One thing you could do if you want to wear a skirt for interviews is to carry a large enough bag that you can stash a pair of pants, and change in the bathroom if you need to go outside for an extended period of time. Boston's supposedly "America's walking city", so if you go out with faculty for dinner, it's likely to involve some amount of walking outside.</p>
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Nope, all the interviews I attended were about the same level of formality -- a few people wore suits, but they were the odd ones out.</p>
<p>(A sidenote on the PI state of mind -- my qualifying exam presentation is tomorrow morning, and I asked my PI if I should wear a skirt or just khakis and a sweater. He nixed the skirt and said that I shouldn't dress "so the committee thinks you don't have anything to talk about and you're dressing up to take their minds off the data." Umm... that wasn't exactly the plan, but khakis and a sweater it is! :))</p>
<p>Hi, astrina</p>
<p>I am a little confused.. are you talking about the biological sciences program in GSAS? I thought you were in pharmacology program in Columbia... :) maybe I mistaken your previous replies to somebody else's...</p>
<p>has anyone received any review invitation from cornell bmcb (not weill)?</p>
<p>UCSD MCDB? anyone?</p>
<p>woops... UCSC MCDB? anyone?</p>
<p>I have a question for anyone who can answer.</p>
<p>I'm interested in doing genomics/cancer genetics. Which school is better, Wash U in St. Louis or UWisconsin-Madison? Or, are they both more or less the same and it would depend on a matter of personal compatibility?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by yale's website yesterday. It seems like an awful lot of people have been waitlisted.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the helpful info Mollie! Fingers crossed, I may be asking you more questions about these schools depending on the outcome of my interviews. I'm looking forward to meeting some PIs and learning about the research going on at each prospective school - beyond that, I'll be hoping something just "clicks" to sway me!</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK on your quals!! :)</p>
<p>(I passed this morning. :) And thank you for the good luck wishes!)</p>
<p>I definitely think that's the way to do it -- ultimately, you'll probably be deciding between schools based on "silly" factors like the feel of the school, the city or region that the school is in, cost of living, and weather. It's often hard to choose based on academic factors, because there are a lot of PIs doing a lot of cool science in schools all around the country. </p>
<p>You want to make sure you're going to be happy where you end up, because you can't do good science if you hate your surroundings. (Well, maybe you can. But it's hard.)</p>
<p>This is a fantastic forum!
Anyone heard recently (this week or last week) from Stanford Cancer bio?
Applied: UCSF, UCB-MCB, Stanford (cancer bio, genetics)
Interview: UCB
Rejects: UCSF</p>
<p>[1] anyone else hear back from UCLA (Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology program)? Is there another interview date besides March 14th. </p>
<p>[2] anyone else having interview scheduling conflicts and how are you dealing with it? </p>
<p>[3] what do you think about the biomedical science program at UCHSC? anyone going for interview there on either Feb 22-23 or Feb 29-March 1st?</p>
<p>I don't know about everyone else but I was having a particularly hard time picking a program to apply for each school. I know broadly what areas I would be interested in but there are professor whose research interest me in a couple of programs. What I would like to know is that, after applying and getting into a program, is it possible to change program? For example, you are admitted into cancer biology but later decide that you like biochemistry much better. Is there a way to switch between programs after being admitted to a particular program?</p>
<p>There's no one answer to that, obviously, but many schools will let you rotate with and join the labs of a wide variety of PIs, even those who are not in the program. So if you start out in a cancer bio program but join the lab of a biochemistry PI, you would do all of your work in biochemistry but still stay in the cancer bio program and have your degree awarded through them.</p>
<p>At many schools, the actual program you're in is more of an administrative thing -- your day-to-day life will be determined to a much greater degree by the lab you join.</p>
<p>But this is a good question to ask on recruitment weekends -- how free are students to rotate with PIs not affiliated with the program?</p>
<p>Hi all. If you're worried about not having an interview yet, you should take a look at University of Maryland's biomed. grad. studies <a href="http://lifesciences.umaryland.edu/overview%5B/url%5D">http://lifesciences.umaryland.edu/overview</a> - the deadline is Feb 1. I was going to apply but had already heard back from some places so I didn't. It's one of the country's top med schools but I think people don't know to apply to the grad studies since they are separate from the UMD main campus which also has a bunch of departments (deadlines already passed). Hope that helps.</p>
<p>jellyfish - as far as what I've seen and from people I've talked to, at most schools it's fairly easy work with professors outside of your home department, and in fact many places encourage or require you to do so for at least one of your rotation experiences.</p>
<p>jellyfish -
Yes, i'm interviewing at UCHSC on feb 22-23. As for the quality of the school... All I know (or believe I know) is that its a rapidly expanding program. They've recently built a lot of new facilities, and they've been expanding the faculty base and breadth of research in recent years. They've also just added a department in the BSP umbrella program for developmental and stem cell biology. In the past they've had decent NIH funding, and in 2006 received 50+ million in NIH grants (fellowships, research, training) in the realm of biomedical sciences. (that boils down to +150 individual grants) For comparison, bigger schools like yale, duke, stanford, UCSF, etc. get something on the order of 300-350 such grants for 100-150 million. So given the smaller size of the school, they seem to do pretty well. And its in the heart of some of the best snowpacked mountains in the country.</p>