<p>I think so - varies school by school. Weill Cornell I just said no in an email, they didn’t send me the official acceptance letter or anything (I literally said no the day of the acceptance though). Brandeis and Chicago I had to send the official thing.</p>
<p>Thanks, safetypin! I actually went back and reread my acceptance letter from the department to make sure, and apparently I was supposed to receive official acceptance/declination forms from the Graduate Division in the mail. They never came, obviously. I’m writing the admissions coordinator now to see if I can have them resent, or whether an email would suffice. I’ve had a lot of trouble getting in touch with people from this department in general, so I guess it’s par for the course… Can’t fault them, though. Must be a hectic time.</p>
<p>You may still have to send in an official form, but definitely email them as soon as possible so that they can admit someone else</p>
<p>I just got an acceptance from UChicago BMS so they’re still sending them out. I’ve already accepted UW’s offer so I’m declining UChicago’s. Hopefully someone else will get my spot.</p>
<p>@variola</p>
<p>How did UChicago contact you at what subdivision did you apply to?</p>
<p>@hoyaphd I got a big white envelope in the postal mail today. I hadn’t heard a peep from them since I interviewed way back on Feb 4 so I was kinda surprised that it was an acceptance and not a rejection or a waitlisting.</p>
<p>I interviewed for MPMM. I was informally told that their post-interview admit rate was about 85% but I think that only applies to MPMM and not the BMS cluster overall. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>So I guess its time for my final update… </p>
<p>Graduating May 2010 from a tier 4 school (i just found that out yesterday, had no idea about tier system when I picked an undergrad) 3.5UGPA, 3.6 major GPA in Biological Sciences</p>
<p>4 yrs undergrad research in developmental bio with 2 publications in review and tons of abstracts and conference presentations. Summer research at UCSF with a publication in press GRE: 760Q, 590V, 4.0 AW</p>
<p>Applied to 12 programs: Duke DSCB, Sloan-Kettering, UW-Seattle Neurobio, UCSF BMS, Yale BBS, Harvard BBS, Columbia Integrated Cell, Cornell BCMB, UW-Madison Neuroscience, Wash U Dev Bio, Baylor COM Dev Bio</p>
<p>Interviews: Duke, GSK, Yale (declined), Columbia, Cornell (declined), UW-Madison, Wash U, Baylor (declined),
Rejected: UCSF BMS, UW-Seattle
Accepted: at all schools that I interviewed at and also at Harvard</p>
<p>Attending: Duke University Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program!!!</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you still waiting to hear from school and you guys that are still trying to decide where to go… </p>
<p>p.s. anybody gonna be attending Duke with me next year?</p>
<p>@Neurosci</p>
<p>The loft is mine when I visit. That’s just the way it’s gonna be.</p>
<p>(I miss your face.)</p>
<p>S deciding between MIT and Berkeley. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Wow another wiatlist for me…</p>
<p>I dunno what Im doing wrong at the interviews…I thought I was doing a good job at talking to the profs and everything…</p>
<p>If there are still people waiting to hear from U Chicago, I got my acceptance offer today in the mail. My interview was February 25th, and it is dated March 15 so there may be more on the way that just haven’t reached your mailboxes yet. I am going to mail back my form today so that should free up a spot on the waitlist.</p>
<p>And to the people who have messaged me about Emory, I haven’t forgotten you, I have just been really busy. I’ll respond later tonight or tomorrow though.</p>
<p>
The graduate student body at Berkeley seems much more liberal(ly dressed) than that at MIT.</p>
<p>krypt–
Have u decided yet? You had a lot of good choices.</p>
<p>I thought grad students wore jeans and t-shirts everywhere; are the Cal ones more graphic?</p>
<p>A little about myself: Biochemistry major from UCLA (transfer student), 3.55 GPA with 2 and half years of research experience. GRE: 740Q/570V.</p>
<p>Applied to:
Biochemistry/Biophysics: Stanford, CalTech, UCLA, UCSB, UCB, UCSD, Princeton, USC PIBBS
Bioengineering: Columbia, MIT</p>
<p>Interviews/Acceptances at: Stanford, CalTech, Princeton, UCSB, USC PIBBS (meh), UCLA (interviewed, waiting to hear)</p>
<p>Rejected from: Cal, MIT</p>
<p>I’m having serious trouble deciding between Stanford and CalTech. Loved both of the programs when I visited, and both have plenty of faculty I would be willing to work with. Both have given me relatively comparable stipends and are ranked similarly. Both also allow me to choose pretty much any faculty I would want to do a rotation with regardless of department. Hell, both even use the same x-ray crystallography facilities. Stanford would allow me to explore a little outside of the science realm, as they allow you to take courses in the business, design, and law schools if your PI allows. I heard the design courses are actually incredibly cool and useful, so I’d really be down for that. Not to mention you’re in the middle of silicon valley so job options are a plenty.</p>
<p>My family and boyfriend of 5 years are in Los Angeles, but moving might be a nice change since I’ve lived here for 23 years. Its a little harder of a decision since my mom is disabled and I’m her only family, but I feel like if I don’t cut ties now I’ll never be able to. My boyfriend may also be able to move to San Francisco next summer, in which case we would move to the city and I would commute to Stanford. </p>
<p>Anyone have any helpful advice? Its an awesome situation to be in, but also a really difficult one. At this point I honestly don’t know what would make me happiest.</p>
<p>
I am leaning toward UCSF. Berkeley is still a serious contender, though.</p>
<p>And it wasn’t that the Cal students wore graphic tees or anything (though I could easily visualize them doing that), it was just that there was a lot of dyed hair and piercings. And weekend Dungeons & Dragons get-togethers, hehe. A unique group is a good way of putting it.</p>
<p>final update:</p>
<p>Undergrad: Public
GPA: 3.8
GRE: 730Q 550V
Two 1st author publications
PRogram: Pharmacology</p>
<p>Applied: Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Duke, Wake Forest, Baylor
Interviews: all
Accepted: JHU, Penn State, Duke, Wake Forest
Declined: none</p>
<p>Going to Johns Hopkins :)</p>
<p>if anyone here has been accepted to UCI CMB but is not attending please please please let them know. i am wait listed and its my top choice. thanks.</p>
<p>lakersfan45: did they contact you to let you know you were waitlisted?</p>
<p>this is just a post where i’m going to complain about the situation i am in.</p>
<ol>
<li>i’ve been admitted to suny stony brook for eco/evo, but i have yet to visit because the professor i’ve contacted hasn’t written back to me in order to schedule it in. i missed the weekend retreat in feb. because i was still interviewing…therefore i have no idea what the atmosphere of the program is like</li>
<li>wait-listed at uchicago and idk what to expect from that.</li>
<li>have heard nothing from nyu though someone on grad cafe has mentioned that decisions will be out in a week or so.</li>
<li>a professor at georgetown sent me an email asking whether they should push for me to be admitted (the chair is hesitant to accept me because the professor already has several students in the lab). i wrote back saying how i’ve been wait-listed at chicago, but i don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to attend georgetown (though i know there’s stony brook). the professor wrote back saying they won’t put any decision in and think about how to accommodate me in the lab if i decide to go.</li>
<li>rutgers professor said they would email me, and haven’t as of two weeks ago.</li>
</ol>
<p>***. i’m frustrated. what does anyone know about stony brook eco/evo program?</p>
<p>Final Update. Applied to computational biology/cellular biology(genetics) programs.</p>
<p>Gre: 770/670 Biochem: 670 (92nd percentile)
Research: 4 REUs in Chemistry, Physics (2), and Computational Biology
Publications: 2 (both in physics)</p>
<p>Applied: UChicago GGSB, NYU GSAS Biology, Emory, Dartmouth MCB, Rutgers BioMaPS, Georgetown MB
Accepted: UChicago(yesterday), NYU GSAS Biology, Rutgers, Georgetown</p>
<p>Both Dartmouth and Emory denied without interview, I assume it was because of my predominately computational background and lack of biology lab experience beyond regular coursework.</p>
<p>Going to NYU!!!</p>