2014 Bioscience Admission and Interviews

ScaggsvilleScott
Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:00:39 +0000

Hixiv21,
You make some good points. There are a limited number of weekends during the interview season, although one school, Sloan-Kettering, has their interviews on a Tuesday thru Thursday, which happens to conflict with the first week of classes at my daughter’s school. So, she is going to contact her profs for next semester to get a feel of how they wold react to her missing the first week of classes.
She did not get an invitation to Harvard, so she does not need to worry about interview conflicts with that school, which is too bad since her undergraduate school is only 30 minutes, so logistics would have been pretty minimal.
Rockefeller would likely be a top-choice for her. I am glad to hear they don’t require an interview. That schools seems to be extremely competitive to get in to, and I see that many of their slots are reserved for foreign students (the school wants diversity in that area) and in last years class a large number of the students they accepted had a MS degree, or several years of research experience after receiving their undergraduate degree, so this program appears to be extremely competitive.
I think the last few schools that my daughter is waiting to hear back on interview possibilities are Mt. Sinai, Einstein, Vanderbilt and Cold Spring Harbor (although she is finding that their strengths might not be lining up well with her research interest).
Does anybody know anything about the quality of student housing in the New York schools she is waiting on: Sloan-Kettering, Einstein, Mt. Sinai and Rockefeller. Since these are 5-6 year programs I am sure that the quality of housing during that time period will impact her view of theses schools.
Thank you!