<p>Judging by the forum boards from previous generations of applicants, it looks like any time between January and February.
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<p>Judging by the forum boards from previous generations of applicants, it looks like any time between January and February.
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<p>I was also perusing last year's thread and saw that some people received interview invitations starting in December....</p>
<p>I heard back from one around Dec5 and another around Dec15. The earliest I have heard of was late Nov for Wash U, and I met lots of people that got this early invite from them. </p>
<p>Any one submit a NSF fellowship today? I am excited to have it done. It is time to go party!</p>
<p>Now I can publish my full profile with GRE and toefl included.</p>
<p>I'am applying for the 2009-2010 admission to PhD programs in Cancer Biology. My particular area of interest is role of p53 signaling network in the regulation of apoptosis and senescence. Being an international applicant it is rather hard to get into the top10 schools, but if you try sometimes you get what you need, right?
My stats are:
BSc, biology major in Russia's top3 school.
GPA: 5.0 out of 5.0.
GRE Subject Biology: 920 (99%)
GRE General:800Q 600V 4,0AW (A bit low, but I'am from totaly non-english medium)
TOEFL: 111 (30R-28L-23S-30W)</p>
<p>4 years of research experience, but the area of research was rather far from the molecular biology (I have done 2 research projects on development of asymmetries in vertebrates, basicly morphological aspect).
Have 3 personal research grants, 1 first-author publication in respected local journal, 1 article is submitted for the international journal publication (also 1-st author). </p>
<p>Recommendations are said to be strong, the one from PI even very strong.</p>
<p>My school list is:</p>
<p>The top choices
1 Stanford U.
2 MIT
3 Rockefeller U.
4 Harvard U.
5 Cornell U./Sloan Kettering
6 Washington U. in St. Louis</p>
<p>The second choices:
7 Columbia U.
8 U. Penn
9 BCM
10 U. of Texas, Southwestern
11 JHU
12 UCSD
13 Yale U
14 Berkeley U.
15 UCSF
16 Princeton U.</p>
<p>Penicillin, Solid GRE and everything else looks good. I'd say some of the schools on your list are a bit of reach for international students, like UCB, UCSF, UCSD, Stanford, MIT. But other than that I'd be pretty optimistic about getting into 7-8 of them no problem.</p>
<p>Thanks. I agree with you that admission at the schools you listed is pretty hard for internationals. But I decided to include them because I've always seen the admission process as a kind of lottery. What if i get lucky and win a jackpot :)</p>
<p>Hey everyone, </p>
<p>Whew. Almost hitting app deadline time. Can't wait.</p>
<p>So, I'm compiling all my stuff. And have a quick statement of purpose question.</p>
<p>I found a perfect quote by a past notable scientist that really sums up a lot of my feelings on research, and something I think ALL of my past projects indicates.</p>
<p>Is it bad to use it as an into or ending to add some type of hook or theme? Or should I pass it, as I dont want to give it that wishy-washy general feeling... </p>
<p>Anyway, I'm a re-apply-er. So, could use some advice quickly. Applied last year while my father was dying (NOT a good idea), so only got into 3/10 schools, which none of them found out to be good matches. But can someone look at my stats and think if I'll be competitive now with a lot of work into my apps for a top 10 school? I'm applying to neuro programs.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.73 from a strong science liberal arts school
MAJOR GPA: Probably 3.85-ish
GRE: 750 Math, 570 Verbal, 6.0 Writing
Past Research: Los Alamos National Lab - 1 summer, 1 summer + semester in a biochem lab at college, 1 summer harvard med, 1 year honors research neuro lab at college
Presenting a first-author paper at SfN (next weekend, yay)
LORS: honors research advisor, professor and advisor, harvard med summer program advisor, and los alamos national lab research advisor...</p>
<p>What have you done in the last year? That will make a difference. Aside from that, I am surprised that you didn't have more success last go around. Hopefully you will do your prep work and find which programs are a good match this time and have more success.</p>
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I found a perfect quote by a past notable scientist that really sums up a lot of my feelings on research, and something I think ALL of my past projects indicates.</p>
<p>Is it bad to use it as an into or ending to add some type of hook or theme? Or should I pass it, as I dont want to give it that wishy-washy general feeling...
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Hey, I used a quote to end my statement. (Ramon y Cajal, but of course.) It's probably cliched, but it's not automatically a bad thing.</p>
<p>And maybe I'll see you at SfN! :) Are you excited yet?</p>
<p>All apps submitted, this feeling is amazing, best of luck to those still working on it.</p>
<p>PhD-Bound? - congratulations! I'am also on my final stages - polishing a SOP and waiting for one LOR. Think to finish everything in 3-4 days.</p>
<p>Argghh. All apps submitted but the (slow) LOR writers are killing me. :( </p>
<p>Will some schools look through applications with just 1 or 2 rec letters in place?</p>
<p>I don't think so, they only forward your application once it is marked complete (well, maybe you can get away with official GRE scores not in).</p>
<p>I agree with PhD-Bound -- I had a slow recommender, and my application wasn't read by any schools until his letters were in. The schools were, of course, very understanding about his tardiness.</p>
<p>EDIT: Sorry, the forum's been having weird post order issues lately -- I wrote this after PhD-Bound's #275, although it appears first.</p>
<p>Crap. I'm screwed then. :( </p>
<p>Should have asked for 1 extra letter writer just for good measure.</p>
<p>hehe, mollie's seniority on the forum goes a long way. BTW, anyone getting emails from admission coordinators everyday about completing your files ASAP? (note: I don't think its a computer generated email)</p>
<p>sideserver why don't you call him/her? They are busy and might have forgotten, I figured you just have to be active when it comes to these things because I personally think they will be more ****ed off if you try to contact them 3 days before a deadline versus right now.</p>
<p>Yeah, I did try emailing (I'm in Singapore and he's in Kansas). No luck. </p>
<p>Will probably try to call if he doesn't reply by the end of the week.</p>
<p>aren't most of the apps due the beginning of december? If so you still have plenty of time to get that rec in. Most profs aren't too worried about being ahead of the deadline, they just want to get it in on time. A lot of schools don't start looking through apps at until after the deadline, so finishing earlier doesn't matter at all.</p>