<p>The early ACCESS weekend should be before most of those other schools.</p>
<p>MIT does its weekend to share with Harvard BBS (Harvard Thurs/Fri/Sat, MIT Sat/Sun/Mon), and those are usually in mid-February and mid-March. Stanford's umbrella program only has one weekend, which is the first weekend of March; one of Berkeley's weekends lines up with Stanford's (Berkeley Sat/Sun/Mon, Stanford Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat), and one of UCSF's weekends is the weekend before that. (And yes, some people do UCSF --> Berkeley --> Stanford. And then they collapse.) Another of UCSF's weekends is in early February.</p>
<p>That's all I know, and of course all of these things are liable to change this year or in the future.</p>
<p>Thank you for the information molliebatmit!</p>
<p>Hi I'm new at this forum.
@belevitte
I also applied to BBSP, UNC but I heard nothing. I hope it is special case for you, right?</p>
<p>Conanbot: Last year my friend and I both applied to UNC's BBSP at the same time. We got calls for interviews about a week apart and neither of us heard until the beginning-middle of January. So don't worry just yet...give it time. :)</p>
<p>Actually, I talked to UNC BBSP today and the administrator told me that people with complete applications have, now, been assigned a committee and will undergo review within the next few days. I don't know when they will release their decision but a decision will be made on all complete applications by the end of the week. I did research with a Prof. in Pharmacology so I actually talk to their office a lot and just have that kind of relationship with them. But don't worry, I'm sure it will turn out OK :)</p>
<p>Thank you very much New_User and diane1987 to clarify my curious.</p>
<p>Conanbot, I believe that my call was special because it came from somebody who is working in a very similar area to me. Carbohydrate profiles in infectious arthritis. You don't get more specific than that. I think that he saw my app and wanted to speak to me personally. I suspect that this is abnormal.</p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I am an INTERNATIONAL (I know, some times it sucks to be international) applicant and I am totally lost about my chances on getting accepted here in US. My undergrad major is Biology and I have a Masters in computational modeling. My background is bioinformatics, but I wanna mix "wet lab" with in silico analysis for my PhD project. Here is my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.67
GRE:740(81%)M, 520(66%)V, 4A. Biology: 730(92%)
TOEFL: 110</p>
<p>I am embarrassed to present my scores here (just look at previous posts...). I have three papers (2 as first author) and I have been doing research since 2002 (second undergrad year). I have been working at MD Anderson as a trainee for almost two years</p>
<p>I am applying to: MIT, Caltech, UCSF, Scripps, U Chicago, Baylor, UT Austin. </p>
<p>Am I a competitive candidate? Or should I just go pack my stuff and go home?
Thanks a lot guys and good luck to everyone (including my competitors :) )</p>
<p>prfreire, at ut you'll be fine. my guess is you'll get into a few of the others. being an international makes it tough though and you most likely won't get into all.</p>
<p>Hey prfreire, I agree with devine about your chances being good. I know that being an international makes for some serious competition and being in bioinformatics makes for even stiffer competition. You applied to a school that is notorious for taking few internationals: UCSF. Your scores aren't bad but maybe you should think about taking alternate routes to get where you want to go. Bioinformatics is competitive enough without your being an international applicant. Have you considered applying to umbrella programs? You might be able to get into the same labs but be competing with a whole different group of people for a spot. Also, there are a lot of less prestigious school that have deadlines that are still not past. Maybe applying to one or two of these would be a good idea.</p>
<p>fyi- I just got a call for an interview w/ Penn neuroscience group.</p>
<p>Dec 11th- interview invite via email to Rutgers/UMDNJ Molecular BioSciences umbrella program. Choose between Feb 27 and Mar 13 date. </p>
<p>General Interview Question: How long do you have to reply with the logisics i.e. what date you choose, if you come the night before or that day etc. Are they waiting on your decision to see if they have enough money to invite other candidates?</p>
<p>congrats neurohopeful!
did they happen to mention when the interview might take place? Do they have multiple dates?
I am anxiously waiting for a response as well, but i am an international applicant so i am not sure if they look at them at the same time as the domestic applicants or at a later time. When did you submit your application? I submitted the day before the deadline.</p>
<p>Hello all
Congratulations to all who got the interviews.
I have been a regular visitor of the forum for more than a week now. I wish I had known about it earlier. Looking at all the credentials of people in the forum, I am very nervous. Here are my credentials:
GPA: 3.92 from a state school
3 summers of research at three different schools and 2 years in my school. 1 year of teaching. 1 middle author paper.
GRE: 490 V (58%), 730 Q (79%), 5.0 W (77%)- This is why I am nervous.
I have applied to all the top tier schools- Harvard BBS, U Penn, Stanford, Wash U, U Washington, Duke, Michigan, Yale, Wisconsin, Chicago and NYU for CMB or Cancer Biology. When I talked to the summer program director at Harvard where I was last summer, she says I should get into quite a few. But I am very nervous now. I am a permanent resident and moved to the US after I finished high school.
What do you all think? Should I apply to other mediocre schools now? Thanks.</p>
<p>Penn said 29-30 of Jan or 19-20 Feb, I believe.</p>
<p>I responded close to the deadline, too.</p>
<p>asubedee- the only possible prob with your app would be your verbal score. as long as you can demonstrate that you speak/write english well enough to do scientific work (and you have publications) I don't think anyone will care. You're above average in all your scores, anyways, and as far as I know GRE's are only used to weed out people who got below a 1200 or so, so you make that cut and the rest of your creds are outstanding. Maybe I'm wrong, but when I took the GRE I just told myself that as long as I got a score that wouldn't get me tossed out before they read my app, I'd be fine...</p>
<p>Hey all,
Finshed my applications up a few weeks ago. Actually more excited about all this than nervous, even with credentials below some people on here! I guess I was told to distinguish myself in research and my chances should increase for graduate school.
Here's what I'm workin with:
3.5 GPA in BIOE from UC Merced
GRE: 440V 710Q 5.0W
Summer research at UCSF and UCSD as part of the UC LEADS fellowship program, with a second author publication en route from UCSF.
Bunch of EC activites. President of a couple orgs on campus.
Applied to UCSF, UCSD, UCI, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford, UW, UF, Harvard and Hopkins in Neuroscience.
4 LOR, 3 from professors that supervised my research at UCSF, UCSD and UCM and my boss at my job I've held for the duration of college. </p>
<p>Cool board. Enjoy reading the successes of other people! Congrats again to all. Fingers crossed for me!</p>
<p>Whoa. Just got a rejection letter from UWisconsin Genetics Program. Talk about a prompt response. </p>
<p>Applied: UWisconsin, UWashington, WashU, OSU, UNC-Chapel Hill, Indiana State, UMichigan, UIowa, UMaryland, NHI partnership program, PennState, VCU, UArizona
Interviews:
Accepted:
Rejected: UWisconsin</p>
<p>Do all programs send rejection letters? I mean, I know it sucks to get a rejection letter, but I prefer that over never hearing anything. Do they generally come as soon as they decide you are not right for the program (as in soon after the deadline) or are they sent throughout January and even into February?</p>
<p>Hey Bellevit and Devine 09!</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for your answers. This place is certainly one of the best ways to feel how the actual admission process looks like! I am freaking out right now! </p>
<p>I really didn't know that bioinformatics is competitive compared to other areas of biology. Even though that is my main background, I am applying to cell and molecular biology programs. I intend to use bioinfo just as a backbone, not as a subject of research.</p>
<p>I would like also to present a perspective for the grad program here at MD Anderson (I've been working here for almost 2 years). Even though the hospital is now ranked as #1 in cancer in US, the grad program (GSBS) seems quite disorganized for me. However, there is a possibility of enrolling at Baylor CM and working here at MD Anderson (if you are interested), and that's what I will try to do, since my possibilities of enrolling a dream school are really low. The trend here is to enhance the flexibility of the programs and institutions, such as Rice U, Baylor, etc.</p>
<p>Hope I can be your colleague in the near future!</p>