<p>The bio department will definitely accept its own undergrads (I think all of us who applied my year were accepted), but we were all set up in an interview with one of the bigwigs in the department at the interview weekend in order to encourage us to really consider whether staying at MIT for our PhDs was the best career move.</p>
<p>After that chat, I ended up deciding to go elsewhere. At least one of the students my year decided to stay, and he’s happy and doing productive work in a lab different from his UROP lab. Whatever works.</p>