<p>Still haven't heard back from them. How many of the decisions have been made? When will they make all the decisions? Would someone know this please releave my anxiety?~</p>
<p>Harvard BBS already sent out all of its acceptances and had its recruitment weekend.</p>
<p>I see... Thank you, KUNRD. Could you tell me how you get this information? I called the secretory and they said decisions are still being made. I think your info. is more frank than theirs.</p>
<p>Well, to be clear, KUNRD. Harvard BBS has sent out all of its acceptances, but has had only one of two recruitment weekends. The second one is this weekend.</p>
<p>I applied to MCB and heard about BBS from a friend that is a first year in BBS right now. I forgot that they have a second recruitment weekend coming up.</p>
<p>Sounds like carbonboy has more information than I do.</p>
<p>I wondering which place is the best place for stem cell research between Stanford, MIT and Harvard. I think I want to pursue that in graduate school. I got all the offers already, and I need to make a decision. Which school do you guys think would give me the most options career-wise after graduate school say if I want to move to the biotech industry or business. It seems like if i want to move into biotech, stanford would be great since it's right in silicon valley where a lot of biotech startups are started by stanford graduates and professors. Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if "decisions are still being made" is all that frank. Harvard BBS doesn't interview, so essentially they've sent out all their acceptances. Their second recruitment weekend is in two days, so I doubt they're going to accept another person at this point. The only chance that's left is if people start declining the offer and they move on to their wait list. So I guess the correct answer is, "decisions have already been made, but we may accept you sometime around April if you're high enough on the wait list."</p>
<p>Me so far:</p>
<p>Accepted: Columbia (Mech of Health and Disease/Nutr + Metabolic bio)
Interviewed/Waiting: UPenn (CAMB), Albert Einstein, NYU Sackler
Have not heard from at all/not sure they even received my app/probably rejected: Princeton (Molbio)
Rejected: Yale</p>
<p>I hate waiting....</p>
<p>l3monkid..</p>
<p>That would suck if you already committed somewhere in April and then Harvard decides to send you that letter! Hahaha..</p>
<p>So has anyone committed to (or almost certain they will) to a specific school already?</p>
<p>Did anyone else apply/interview at the University of Chicago's biomedical sciences cluster? Willing them to contact me every other second isn't doing good things for my mental health.</p>
<p>In a few weeks, you'll be praying that they DON'T contact you quite so often :)</p>
<p>During mid-to-late March last year, all of my programs started flooding me with "we'd like to talk to you" requests and I called a few back, thinking it was something uber-important ... then they all began to spin the same tale of "now that you've interviewed, what can I tell you about our program to help you decide?" This was done by department heads and faculty alike ... it didn't take me long to respond (nicely): I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A HELLISH FINALS WEEK AND YOU'RE NOT HELPING MY SANITY SO LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY!</p>
<p>I personally thought the decision period was worse than the waiting period...</p>
<p>thank you all. I think I should find some stuff useful to do...</p>
<p>Hey Sydneya,
Keep your mind open. If you ever attempted an industrial job search, those questions are always there. Those questions were also in college interviews (which is why kids get crazy about that whole process... at least I was). At some point in our lives we're gonna have to cook up some recipes of sweet words for the employers... lots of things take people skills. Nobody like "why are you applying here" type question, but obviously you have reasons for applying for that school. lol at least u'r safe.</p>
<p>Isn't it true that every interview is supposed to determine whether you are a good fit by finding either directly or indirectly that you really want to go to that school? I screwed some of those -_-!</p>
<p>Cornelli2008,</p>
<p>What is your top choice?
Columbia sounds like a nice place. I think you interviewed at Einstein the same time I did (Feb 4th). Which one were you? I am surprised that you got into Columbia and have not yet heard from Einstein.</p>
<p>maco: hmm i don't know! I think I'm going to end up choosing between Columbia and UPenn. I really want to be in NYC, but I think Penn is a better fit for me. I also did not hear the greatest things about Columbia at my other interviews. I could tell that at Penn, the faculty really care about their students, and I did not get that impression at all at Columbia, which is unfortunate b/c it is a great school. Penn is also more flexible than Columbia in terms of switching programs/the number of labs I can rotate in.</p>
<p>Yea I'm surprised that I havent heard from Einstein yet. I have a feeling that I was maybe put on a wait list or something. At one of my interviews, the guy was a complete jerk to me for no reason. I also might have given off the impression that I was more interested in the other schools that I interviewed with, which is true, but I didn't want to let them know that. Every interviewer asked me what other schools I applied to, which got a little frustrating I guess.</p>
<p>sydneya,</p>
<p>Can you tell me how long after he interviews did JHU (BCMB?) replied to you? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>haha Cornelli, that's exactly how I feel too! (fit vs location!) </p>
<p>valecollegorian: I'm trying to stay open. I do have this naive self righteous attitude that scientists should be above stuff like that but that is the real world. =</p>
<p>layne: I got an email about 5 weeks after I interviewed. One of my friends I interviewed with got an acceptance about a week after interviews. We are both BCMB and did the January recruitment weekend. Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Xenoi87: I hv almost decided to go to umass med sch., only that I m waiting for Scripps to tell me something, anything abt my application. And UCSD to get back to me after they interviewed me. These two places are the only ones I m looking out for, and that too if both my GF and me get in. Otherwise, its gonna be umass.</p>
<p>p.s. (to all) - if the interviewer at UCSD told me that they will let me know abt my status in 2 weeks, and if its been 4-5 weeks since they interviewed me, should I assume that they wont be taking me?</p>
<p>Hi all, I'm looking for advice and thoughts on something: Has anyone else applied/interviewed for grad studies both at top med schools and at less famous (but possibly still excellent) state schools and schools of arts/sciences? To be specific about my situation, I was accepted at Johns Hopkins Medical, but I'm thinking about picking UMaryland-College Park over it. </p>
<p>My reasoning is that although JHU is prestigious and has lots of famous researchers, there are so many post-docs and the labs are so competitive that I fear that the lowly grad students ends up in the least desireable lab with the projects nobody else wants. Plus these famous labs can be super huge and you'll barely know your PI - you may end up doing very poorly in terms of training and publications. On the other hand, going to a less famous place, you may not have the name, but you do have people who care about your progress and one-on-one time with your PI.</p>
<p>So do you sacrifice a chance at prestige for the sake of comfort and happiness? How important is the name brand in the future? If you're genuinely interested in the research and programs at both places, how do you make the choice? Anyone with thoughts or experience in this, please speak up! Thanks!</p>
<p>souravc: not necessarily. columbia told me 2-3 weeks and it took 5 weeks to hear back from them. The woman who called me said that she had been traveling for over 2 weeks, which is why it took so long.</p>