<p>@shush33</p>
<p>Weill Cornell IMP interview invites went out in December. </p>
<p>@doctordestiny</p>
<p>Stanford Biosciences neuro interview invites went out on Jan. 9th… Looking at previous years gradcafe results… Stanford doesn’t seem to be do more than one wave of invites (all in December/January depending on your Home program).</p>
<p>Is Harvard MCB still sending invites?</p>
<p>Schools I have not heard from:</p>
<p>Mt. Sinai
Weill Cornell
Columbia P&S
Sloan Kettering
NYU Sackler
Princeton</p>
<p>Which ones are rejections at this point?</p>
<p>Sloan Kettering is probably a rejection.</p>
<p>I wish the interviewers would stop asking about other schools. I feel like Sloan Kettering is convinced I won’t go there.</p>
<p>Brown invite by email.</p>
<p>When asked about other schools during an interview, do they just ask where you applied or where you’re interviewing?</p>
<p>This could be bad in two different ways i guess… Either you’re at a middle tier school and you tell them you’ve got interviews with upper tiers ahead (basically they’re just backup) or you got lucky and got an interview at an upper tier while all your other interviews are at middle tier schools (they’re wondering why they were the only upper tier school to give u an interview) </p>
<p>(Obviously only applying to only one level of schools would make this statement erroneous)</p>
<p>I emailed Columbia and got a very nice but disappointing response, all interview invites for Micro, Immuno and infection are out, I’m on the wait list but there is little chance of coming in from the cold.</p>
<p>I haven’t posted in this thread yet but I’ve been following it obsessively for the past couple months. I’m applying to schools in the Northeast and I’m primarily interested in cancer biology. I’m not exactly the ideal applicant numbers-wise (GPA, GRE, etc.) but I have a little over 4 years of total lab experience and I’m a cancer survivor myself so I have a few redeeming qualities. That said, I was planning on swinging and missing on most (if not all) of the top tier schools I applied to but you’ll never get in if you don’t at least try. I thought I would post my list of schools, what I know about the status of my application, and my appraisal of my chances. I haven’t actually gotten a single rejection yet though.</p>
<p>Interview:</p>
<p>UCONN Health Center (Biomedical Science)</p>
<p>Programs I have given up on:</p>
<p>Harvard (Cancer Biology): Didn’t get invited and they’re done sending interviews
MIT (Biology): Seems like only one wave and I was not part of it</p>
<p>Programs I have pretty much given up on:</p>
<p>Rockefeller: I’ve heard that people have gotten invites and that some more will probably continue to trickle out but I’m not very hopeful for me personally.</p>
<p>Sloan Kettering: I have no idea what’s going on here. I saw on gradcafe that one person got an interview invite a few weeks ago but I think they were either trolling or an internal applicant. That said though, also according to gradcafe, their interview weekend has already happened. I’m not really certain of anything but I don’t think I’ve heard of any one else getting news from them.</p>
<p>Cornell Weill (Allied Programs): These started trickling out a few days ago but seem to have stopped. Perhaps there will be another wave?</p>
<p>Yale (BBS): Invites seem to have stopped flowing but I know that they review applications based on the track you apply to. I applied to Molecular Medicine Track and I haven’t heard of anyone who’s gotten an invite from them so I haven’t counted them completely out.</p>
<p>Programs I’m still hopeful for:</p>
<p>UMASS Medical School (BBS): I’ve heard of a few invites coming out but they seem to be scattered and my application still says “Under Review”</p>
<p>Dartmouth (PEMM): I haven’t heard of any interviews going out from them yet but their deadline was only January 15th. Also, I got an interview with Dartmouth MCB 3 years ago straight out of undergrad so I think I have a pretty good shot here even though I didn’t end up getting offered back then.</p>
<p>Hey goldenbuff, congrats on your interview! UCONN has a great program and all things considered farmington is not a bad place to be at all, much cheaper than most of your other schools and there is still a lot to do in the area. I went to stemCONN last year there and the faculty I spoke with were extremely knowledgable. Other than that I’d say your self assessment is probably accurate but I understand your position, I had the same philosophy and very similar results so far. When is your UCHC interview? I am interviewing there as well.</p>
<p>I am still waiting on: u mass, tufts, bu som, nyu sackler, columbia, weill cornell allied, rockefeller, mt. Sinai, albert einstein, northwestern igp, baylor med tbmm, pitt ibgp</p>
<p>Rejected: ucsf bms, most likely rejected from harvard bbs</p>
<p>Getting pretty lonely here in the land of no interviews…not really sure where I’ve gone wrong in my app</p>
<p>@dietcokehead7 I’m with you on Einstein, BU, NYU, and Rock.</p>
<p>@fender</p>
<p>I like the Farmington area a lot too. My girlfriend (hopefully fiance soon) is from CT and her whole family lives there so I’ve been to visit quite a bit and it seems like it would be a pretty good fit for both of us. If it were the only offer I got, I wouldn’t be broken up about it. I’ll be attending the February 24-25 interview weekend and will be there a day before/after as well. Maybe I’ll see you there!</p>
<p>Has anyone heard from UPenn immunology?</p>
<p>Accepted to UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology today! Got an Interview at UCSF Bioinformatics Feb 16-17. Feels good after 3 rejections (MIT CSBi, Harvard Systems Biology and my top choice, Stanford Biomedical Informatics)</p>
<p>I also have been looking at this thread for a week or so, but have been too lazy to make an account lol.</p>
<p>I have applied to 10 biomedical science programs and have heard from 3:</p>
<p>Weill Cornell Pharmacology (Interview)
Columbia Pharmacology (Rejected)
Emory Molecular & Systems Pharmacology (next up for the interview weekend IF another invitee cancels)
Yale Molecular Medicine-Pharmacology
UPenn Pharmacology
Tufts Pharmacology
Vanderbilt IGP
Pittsburgh IBGP
UNC BBSP
NYU Open Program</p>
<p>I have emailed all of the program directors besides Cornell (I know, probably annoying), but that’s how I found out about Columbia and Emory. I haven’t gotten any email responses from Yale, Penn, Pitt, or NYU. Tufts says they are just beginning to send out interview invites for pharmacology. UNC says they are finalizing their decisions and I will hear something within 2 weeks. Vanderbilt told me they would review my app on 1/9, but I didn’t hear anything so I emailed the director–but haven’t heard anything back yet. I’m assuming they don’t want to interview me yet or ever (I know it’s rolling).</p>
<p>Anyways, these are my current frustrations, like all of you, haha. Anyone have info on any of these programs? I’m starting to get nervous…</p>
<p>Please accept me Stanford Chemistry, my self esteem relies on it.</p>
<p>@micromacro</p>
<p>I was concerned about this too so I asked a postdoc in my lab about it and she said most interviewers will ask where else you are interviewing (and sometimes why you decided to apply there). She said they do this to better gauge your interest in the program you are currently interviewing at. When I brought up the middle tier/top tier issue, she said most middle tier schools will assume that the top tier schools will be your top choice but that doesn’t mean you are going to be denied admission based solely on that assumption. As long as you don’t come off pompous and express a genuine interest in the middle tier program, there shouldn’t be a problem. Every grad program knows not everyone interviewed is admitted which means you may decide to attend the middle tier school.</p>
<p>In the end, she told me to stop thinking of tiers and focus on the labs and the research areas.</p>
<p>just wondering again if all of UCSD’s interviews for their biomedical science program have been sent out? The online status still says “Under Review” but I don’t know if they’re just slow to update it to “denied” or something like that</p>
<p>Can the waiting be any more tortuous?</p>
<p>@micromacro, Yea like I said before I think if you’re genuinely applying to different programs that are align with your research interest regardless of rank, then it will come across well in the interview as they’ll see you as a well-focused, dedicated applicant.</p>