Biology/Biomedical Sciences: Interviews and Accepted Students weekends

<p>MCB- No, but I just got back from Duke. What program are you interviewing with? Send me a PM and I can offer what help I can.:)</p>

<p>Cornelli2008 and NewUser, I interviewed/interviewing for the Pharmacology department.</p>

<p>Hmm...sorry, probably can not help you then. I only have insight into CMB and maybe Dev Bio. Still if you have a list of faculty I may be able to help. No promises though:)</p>

<p>Please could you tell me how was your interview experience: the people, the place, the research, the facilities??</p>

<p>Hey all..I have a Columbia (Biological Sciences) phone interview this week with someone who's field of research is something I know very little of (I did not choose him). So, I'm not too sure what to expect...Can someone here help, who is more enlightened than I am right now? =)</p>

<p>Hey AR87, they ask the same basic questions: Tell me about your research? Why columbia? And it doesn't matter if you don't know about their research; They tell you about it.</p>

<p>MCB-</p>

<p>Well, I have really nothing bad to say about Duke. Everyone was very cool, the grad students and faculty I met were great, I thought the research was very interesting and the facilities were much better then I am used to.</p>

<p>The interviews were all very different for me, some talked 25 min about their research and I only got to talk for a couple minutes, others were just the reverse. One of my interviewers just chatted with me about why he liked Duke so much. All in all it was pretty laid back. And of course, they took us out and showed us a good time. No clubbing until 4am, but we were at a couple bars until 2 am one night.</p>

<p>So yeah, I do not know if that helps you much, but I had a lot of fun and really liked the place.</p>

<p>Hey NewUser, thanks a lot for the input. :)</p>

<p>any info from berkeley's interview last weekend?</p>

<p>9bull,
I was at Berkeley's MCB weekend. It was pretty nice. In contrast to other interviews I've been to the students and administrators were helpful when you asked them a question but other than that sort of wanted to let you find your own way/niche/comfort zone. Which I liked, ie. not jamming the school down your throat. </p>

<p>As a result, at the end of the weekend you could really see the people that liked the place and were excited versus those that had sort of humdrum feelings or felt out of place etc etc. </p>

<p>On top of that nearly all of the 10 or so professors I talked with in depth were engaging and treated recruits as future fellow colleagues.</p>

<p>Hi, carbonboy</p>

<p>thanks for the info, I would have been there last weekend if i didn't have presentation to give....so how many students they ended up interviewing during the 1st weekend? and for the professors you talked with, how detail they asked about your research?</p>

<p>9bull, </p>

<p>67 total of 70 spots. I think every professor that asked about my research asked about details, from which particular experiments and conditions to the origin and cell types used. There were some professors where we just talked about quality of life and chatty stuff. In general, the people asked the detail questions because they thought the answers were pertinent to their interests or research. Some people got a little burnt on the grill by those questions, but from what I heard none of them went too badly.</p>

<p>anyone go to MIT Bio recruitment last weekend?</p>

<p>hmm,btw, are we supposed to write a thank you letter/email to the ones we talked with?</p>

<p>anyone heading to Baylor for the coming weekend??</p>

<p>Not going to Baylor, but what did you think of Duke, MCB?:)</p>

<p>I was very very impressed. It has moved up to my top priority (or almost there).
What about you?</p>

<p>Hey guys, I just found out that I'm hosting a recruit for the Harvard BBS weekend next weekend, so I imagine I'll be hanging around many of the recruitment events. :) Come say hi -- I'm sure I'll have a nametag, and my name is Mollie.</p>

<p>Same, MCB. I just got my acceptance letter from Duke and at the moment, unless one of my last three interview weekends just totally blows me away, I am going to accept. I felt they went out of their way to make me feel welcomed, the facilities I could easily see myself spending the next five years in and the students and faculty all seemed very cool. I am keeping an open mind for the rest, but they are definitely my top priority as of right now.:) </p>

<p>Maybe I will see you there next year.:)</p>

<p>NewUser I completely agree with you. :)</p>