<p>Congrats Safetypin!!! I knew you’d hear soon! :-)</p>
<p>Update:</p>
<p>Applied: MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard BBS, UCSD, Wisconsin, Princeton</p>
<p>Interviewed at: MIT, Stanford (starts today), UCSD, Princeton, Had to reject interview offer from Wisconsin</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT (officially), Princeton (unofficially), UCSD (hopefully, had a great interview)</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard BBS and Berkeley</p>
<p>Wow, I have NO CLUE how I’m going to pick…</p>
<p>Update: </p>
<p>I was apparently a little hasty as info came in about other programs as I was withdrawing apps. Here’s my end result really!</p>
<p>Applied: Johns Hopkins, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Emory, UW-Seattle, UT Southwestern, UM-Baltimore and Baylor COM.
Interviewed: Johns Hopkins, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Emory, UW-Seattle, UT Southwestern
Accepted: University of Alabama-Birmingham, Johns Hopkins, UW-Seattle, UT Southwestern
Withdrew: UM-Baltimore(Pre-interview), Emory(Post-interview), Baylor(after app was transferred to 2nd choice dept)</p>
<p>Attending: Hopkins CMM!</p>
<p>Welp, I just received my rejection from Duke University’s Cell/molecular Bio program, so that concludes everything for this round of applications. </p>
<p>So, for my final update:</p>
<p>Stats:
Undergrad at CSU East Bay (Tier 3)
Cum. GPA: 3.33
GRE: 770Q/640V/4.0A; no subject test.
Research experience: 9 months in C. elegans neuroscience lab, 5 in a genetics lab.</p>
<p>Interviews: UMich PIBS (12/17), Albert Einstein College of Medicine (12/26), Duke University CMB (1/5), UMN Twin Cities (1/6; declined interview), University of Rochester (1/11)</p>
<p>Rejections (pre-interview): UW Madison, UCSF, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Johns Hopkins Neuroscience</p>
<p>Rejections (post-interview): Duke CMB</p>
<p>Acceptances: UMich PIBS (2/1), Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2/14).</p>
<p>Decision: UMich! :)</p>
<p>Boyfriend just got his Northwestern IBiS acceptance today! Congrats to everyone else on this forum as well; I’ve been living vicariously through you guys these past few months, haha.</p>
<p>Alright, considering I’ve been micromanaging my BF’s applications (and I’m the one addicted to this forum, not him), may as well post his progress:</p>
<p>Stats (I’m not totally sure about all of these): 3.5 or 3.6 from NC State, GRE Q 740 V 5-something W 4.5, good Bio subject test scores, 1.5 years of research at NC State genetics lab studying C. Elegans, no publications. Interested in molecular and developmental bio.</p>
<p>Applied: NYU Sackler, UCSF Tetrad, UCSD, UCLA (Biochem & Molecular Dept, not ACCESS), UT Southwestern, Northwestern IBiS, Mt. Sinai, CU Boulder, U of I Urbana-Champaign, Brandeis, Stony Brook</p>
<p>Rejected with no interview: NYU (assumed), UCSF, UCSD</p>
<p>Interviews: UCLA, UT Southwestern, Northwestern IBiS, Mt. Sinai, CU Boulder, U of I - Urbana-Champaign (declined), Brandeis (declined), Stony Brook (declined)</p>
<p>Acceptances so far: Northwestern IBiS, UT Southwestern, CU Boulder (Interviews at UCLA and Sinai are coming up this month)</p>
<p>This is going to be a tough choice. From an academic standpoint, I think he likes UT Southwestern the most so far, but neither of us know if we’d want to live in Dallas (I’m from NYC originally and I’ve spent the past few years in LA or SF, so I’m a bit spoiled by huge coastal cities). Also, if I’m stuck somewhere for 5-6 years I’d better be able to develop my own career there, which is going to be hard anywhere outside of the Bay Area - I’m in the tech/mobile app startup scene - but even harder outside of California. Well, here’s to hoping he loves UCLA…</p>
<p>Acceptance to UPenn MVP via email today!</p>
<p>Accepted: Vanderbilt IGP (interview 1/25), Duke CMB (interview 2/5), U Penn MVP (interview 2/19), MCG biomedical science ( recruitment weekend 3/12)</p>
<p>Rejection: Wash U (no interview) UNC Chapel Hill (assuming rejection, have heard nothing)</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Northwestern (2/12)</p>
<p>Interview Completed: U Chicago (2/25), Drexel (2/18)</p>
<p>interviewing soon: Emory IMP (3/5), SLU (3/30)</p>
<p>declined interview: Wake Forest</p>
<p>Hi ~</p>
<p>Do you know wether UAB ( U of Alabama, Birmingham ) Neuroscience pronounced the final decision or not ? </p>
<p>Does anbody know the UAB Neuroscience news (About application) ?</p>
<p>Hi All!</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for helping me be sane throughout this application process!
I got accepted at Mt Sinai! (YAAYY!! 
) and Univ of Rochester (:)) )
The thing is both the schools had great interview weekends and I’m just trying to decide where to go…Mt Sinai has great translational research going on while U of R has some labs which are doing really interesting work in RNA biology…</p>
<p>But there are some non-research questions which are making the decision even harder.
I have heard from different ppl that doing PhD in a Med School is not a really great thing cos MD students are given preference over PhD students. Is that true?
Apart from the type of research being done is there any difference doing a PhD at a University than a med school in terms of fellowships awarded to students/ student-faculty interaction etc?</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got accepted!!!
Unfortunately for I havent been accepted anywhere 
It’s really depressing and I don’t know what I’ll do now…
Didn’t plan on this happening</p>
<p>@ Cookys</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad. I am in the same boat as you. Still waiting here back from 2 schools. I look at it this way. Now I know what to do for next year and I should be a better applicant.</p>
<p>@Cookys
I know how you feel. I’ve interviewed at several places and none of them have gotten back to me with final decisions. I think I may go insane…</p>
<p>And congrats on the acceptances everyone!</p>
<p>@Cookys, TP53 and Nutmeg…</p>
<p>Same here! Haven’t heard back yet! Driving me insane…</p>
<p>@caulobacter</p>
<p>I heard back from wash. u dev bio a week ago. I interviewed feb. 4-7</p>
<p>@cancerbiol</p>
<p>I had the same concern about doing PhD at a medical school but I talked to a friend who’s doing her PhD at a med school. She said she sometimes feels like the med students get better treatment from some administrators but that’s because it is a medical school. But she also felt like the professors with labs know that it’s the graduate students who do the bulk of the work and that she has has professors who tell her that they really appreciate the graduate students because they are the real thinkers and they will be the next generation of science</p>
<p>@ cancerbiol</p>
<p>I think it definitely depends on the school. I’m a graduate student at a school that has an MD program, but the courses and administration are different for MDs vs. PhDs. I’ve never felt that the med students have ever gotten preferential treatment. Just look for a strong grad school administration and program and you’ll be fine. Ask the students, they’ll be honest with you.</p>
<p>I just got an interview invite via skype from Cornell G&D</p>
<p>I wish I can visit Cornell though</p>
<p>official letter of admission from yale today yay!</p>
<p>Congrats hamster09</p>
<p>@ influenza TP53 and Nutmeg…thanks for the support…and good luck.</p>
<p>@Cookys</p>
<p>I was in your position last year. I went 0/8 in admissions. So I enrolled in a Masters program, and this year while filling out applications asked many of the faculty what I did wrong in my previous applications. Coming from a non-biological background I found it necessary to take the Biochem GRE which I scored in the 97th percentile. Many masters programs have a research requirement for a thesis and can be completed in one year. This gave me the opportunity to get some really good rec’s. This year I was able to manage a 5/8 showing (still waiting on UChicago), but I already got into my first choice of NYU! My point is don’t lose hope! Go back and refocus and learn from it. Best of luck!</p>