<p>@phirah and microcycle</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten my BPH rejection yet, I can’t wait to join the party! 
At least it takes the sting out of it to have figured it out much earlier by yourself. Just waiting for that elusive acceptance!</p>
<p>I know I may be whining at this point, but has anyone heard from University of Virginia or SUNY Buffalo Biomedical Sciences ?</p>
<p>@123infinity
I interviewed at UVA Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Medicine track, back at the end of January (fyi I’m domestic). They have a second interview weekend in early March, but the weekends probably depend on the department/track. At this stage, it wouldn’t hurt to contact admissions about the status of your application.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>@mbr484</p>
<p>Thank you so much! Those are my last two schools and I want them to put me out of my misery so I can make a decision on my other offers.</p>
<p>Accepted to Washington University in St. Louis DBBS-Developmental Biology via phone call last night. It’s a great program and the faculty are very enthusiastic…decision time!</p>
<p>Oh and I got rejected from Duke pshh</p>
<p>@ soccergurl - that is really nice. i interviewed with Dr. Mu Wang.</p>
<p>hey everyone! I should have found this site sooner. At this point I am going INSANE waiting to hear from Mt sinai, Sackler and Albert einstein. Does anyone know when they finish sending admissions results? anyone else in the same boat?</p>
<p>Sweet! Acceptance at Duke Dev & Stem Cell Bio program.
Truly loved it there; it was my first interview and I’ve been comparing everything else against it, and I’m just not sure how I’m gonna turn it down even though Berkeley and UCSD were amazing as well. Ugh and then Stanford next week… I’m gonna be a mess of indecision for a while.</p>
<p>Hooray, first acceptance! BUSM CMB…still waiting to hear back from others post interview though.</p>
<p>@mbr484 COngratulation, i got accepted to into BU school of medicine Immunology program. I would greatly appreciate your perspective on the school. I really liked it especially because the faculty members are so nice and a sweet stipend and great location but i am having trouble deciding between BU and some other schools. Their level of science, how often they publish and types of journal they publish is not as good as some other universities that i got accepted at… Help Help :)</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>@ siRNAgirl: Einstein’s committee meets after every other interview weekend (i think they have 7). Mine was Jan 24-25 and I heard about two weeks ago that I was accepted.</p>
<p>EDIT: I also know they go until early march for interviews as I met someone who is interviewing there then on another trip</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten a rejection after interviewing? If so, where?
It seems that there is a high admittance (~100%) rate after being selected for interviews this year, right?</p>
<p>@Immuno2011: </p>
<p>I don’t know what the stipend at BU is (maybe it really is amazing), but be careful judging it until you do a full evaluation of Boston cost of living… I get a pretty substantial location adjustment to my current government salary (get paid more than people doing equivalent jobs elsewhere) and things are still really tight living in Boston. I know that stipends in the area can be about $5000 more than elsewhere but that can easily still not really be enough to make ends meet. </p>
<p>Example: Just interviewed in Albany and similar or bigger/nicer apartments are around $400 less a month than in Boston. There goes an extra $4800 a year, just in rent. Also a beer at a bar in Boston often cost $5, was $3.50 in Albany. And Albany is not even the total middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Just a warning to you and anyone else trying to compare stipends!! Never underestimate differences in cost of living.</p>
<p>@Immuno2011
I had a good impression of BU when I visited and the students seem generally happy there. One of the PIs where I currently am did his graduate work at BU as well. I sense a difficult decision on my end too (though still waiting for others, ugh). I am also from the Boston area, so if you have any questions about the city, etc, feel free to PM me!</p>
<p>@microcyle thanks for your advice</p>
<p>@ mbr484 Congratulation and thanks for offering your help, i will pm you some questions</p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>Hopkins BCMB called me three days after the interview. I know someone who was called the next day though.</p>
<p>A lot of programs say they wait until after all the interviews to accept candidates, but this doesn’t necessairily hold true–case in point.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>@immuno2011</p>
<p>I am in exactly the same position with BU. I kind of wish the all the ITP applicants had met so we could get a better sense of the program. I’ve been told that graduate school is all about the reputation of the lab you join, not necessarily the program. And I’m wondering if I should factor in the proximity of many awesome schools when deciding. Finding a job is all about networking, right?</p>
<p>ugh this is a hard decision!</p>
<p>@grosse</p>
<p>The acceptance rate really depends on which program you are applying to, and it also seems like admissions are getting more and more competitive. </p>
<p>If you are applying to the really prestigious programs with a big name, getting in after an interview is not a sure thing. My PI is involved in admissions where I work (top 5 university), and he told me the admission rate is 50-60% after interview.</p>
<p>I also interviewed for some programs last year and it was pretty clear that you would get in as long as you weren’t crazy. At ALL my interviews last year, professors were trying to sell the school to me, whereas this year I got a lot of grilling action. Take that how you may (I am interviewing at more selective programs this year), but I heard a lot of professors talk about how admissions is getting more selective because of funding issues. </p>
<p>Not to be a Debbie Downer, but Republicans in the House of Reps also proposed a $1 bil cut in NIH funding, so if that passes, admissions to all schools will soon get extremely competitive 
(let’s hope not to the level of med school interviews!)</p>
<p>@phagocytosis</p>
<p>I agree with you that graduate school is all the reputation of the lab you are in expecially for opportunities later. Many PI, postdoc and current grad student that i know from work told me the exact same thing.</p>
<p>And to me the problem with BU is there is no excellent lab or may be they just did not do a good job selling their accomplisment to us. But a quick search of their publication on pubmed, i am bummed to see irregular publication patterns and in not very high impact journal.</p>
<p>pm me if you want to discuss this into more details</p>