<p>For those who are still in college, does your final grades matter once you get in grad school?
@danielge: i would choose UMASs and btw, there are no waiting lists for grads school. theres is like a < 1% chance of anyone actually get off the waiting list.</p>
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<p>Generally, no. Unless:</p>
<p>1) You fail to meet a minimal requirement for matriculating into the Graduate School (e.g., you don’t receive a baccalaureate degree); or
2) You received a conditional offer and fail to meet a grade requirement stipulated in your offer.</p>
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<p>This isn’t always true, especially for this year when many programs are turning to waiting lists for the first time as a method for fine-tuning their class size to fit their budgetary constraints.</p>
<p>Final update</p>
<p>Applied all umbrella or biochemistry: Yale, MIT, Sloan-Kettering, Weill Cornell, UNC- Chapel Hill, Brandeis, Albert Einstein, Rutgers/UMDNJ</p>
<p>Accepted: Brandeis, Albert Einstein, UNC (also accepted to biophysics specialization)
Never Heard from after interview: Rutgers</p>
<p>Attending: EINSTEIN!!</p>
<p>Final Update</p>
<p>International. Applied to umbrella or cancer biology: Harvard, UMichigan Ann Arbor, UPenn, UWash Seattle, Sloan-Kettering, UWiscMadison, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Southern California, Indiana School of Medicine - Purdue University and University of Texas Houston GSBS - MDAnderson Cancer Center</p>
<p>Accepted: BCM, USC, Indiana and MDACC
Never heard back: UWiscM</p>
<p>Attending: Baylor College of Medicine (Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine PhD)</p>
<p>Has anyone heard from Brandeis MCB program? Thank you very much!</p>
<p>Has anyone heard back from Rutgers/UMDNJ???</p>
<p>Yes I was accepted last week</p>
<p>chibichan, yeah it’s true that the weather in calif is more attractive</p>
<p>ada711911, i tend to agree with Aceflyer that UCSD is still “fine-tuning their class size to fit their budgetary constraints”, that’s why some already got rejections while some not.</p>
<p>Does anyone know why Rutgers-Newark Bio not as highly ranked as Rutgers-New Brunswick Bio?</p>
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<p>Because it’s a separate school, as far as I can tell. Just as UC-Riverside is separate from UC-Berkeley and UT-El Paso is separate from UT-Austin and so forth.</p>
<p>Ok, first post here and I’m just freaking out because it’s 2 weeks left and I haven’t made a decision yet. </p>
<p>My choice is now down to Penn and Columbia for Biochemistry. Other schools weren’t good fits or didn’t take me :(</p>
<p>Anyway, where should I go? I got my BS in Chem from Penn and have been a tech for several years, so I know and like Penn and Philadelphia. However, it would be nice to go somewhere new and I really like the work all of the faculty I spoke with are doing and there are 10 HHMI PI’s so there is a ton of money around.</p>
<p>What is complicating this matter is that I have been in a fairly serious relationship for the past year and I know that if I go to CU that is basically ending the relationship and telling the person I am with that they are not worth it for me to stay. I love my BF, but I don’t know that I want to spend the rest of my life with him and choosing where to go for grad school is a life changing decision. I just don’t want to make the choice to stay at Penn to be with my man and then for us not to work out. For him to move isn’t really an option right now because he’s an MD/PhD and can’t leave before he finishes which could be another 5-7 more years.</p>
<p>So I wonder others had to make the same decision and why. For me it’s just really difficult and I worry that I will make the wrong decision, not that either is really that bad, but I just love Columbia and the idea of living in NY.</p>
<p>Before I begin, let me preface my post by saying that I am by no means a relationship expert… so please don’t just take my word for it!</p>
<p>Now that that’s out of the way…</p>
<p>You will just have to decide what is more important for you: staying with your BF, or going with the better grad school ‘fit’ for you. If you are not even sure that you want to spend the rest of your life with your BF, I might personally recommend that you go with the better grad school ‘fit’. After all, as you say, your relationship might or might not work out but choosing where to go to grad school is definitely going to affect the rest of your life.</p>
<p>There is also the possibility of taking your relationship long distance. You feel that attending grad school at Columbia is tantamount to “telling the person I am with that they are not worth it for me to stay.” Why is this? In my humble opinion, I’d think that your BF should support you in making the best choice for you, whatever that is. It’s not like you’re choosing between CU and your BF; there doesn’t seem to be any reason why you would necessarily have to break up with your BF if you choose to go to CU. Long-distance relationships are hardly unheard of, after all.</p>
<p>In the end you have to decide for yourself what is most important for you. There is nothing wrong with choosing Penn to stay with your BF - many people choose to attend a program that isn’t their first choice in order to stay with their SO. There is also, I’d think, nothing wrong with choosing CU. Best of luck with your decision.</p>
<p>Hi~everyone
I’m an international student who has a not so strong background
GPA 3.53 G:560(77%) 790(92%) 3.5(20%)
one year of research experience
3 papers under-review(Nth author…)
ROLs from pros who are familiar with me</p>
<p>I received an offer from U of Miami,Miller School of Medicine
And I decided to take the offer,since it seems nice to go to medical school and there’re many research areas for me to choose after one year of rotation.
I don’t have a specific research interest up untill now,but I prefer the cancer research in Miller,Miami</p>
<p>Since I’m not local,I really want to hear about your guys’ opinions about how good is U Miami,Miller school of Medicine. And anything about the most excellent research area in Miller.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>another thing to consider, bioscientologist, about your decision:</p>
<p>The buses that run between philly and NYC are pretty cheap and easy to take. My d is graduating from Barnard (which is at Columbia) and interviewed at UPenn for grad school. It was actually one of her top choices (she did not chose it, however). One big attraction for her was the ease of going between NYC and Philly to see friends. I would think that if you and your BF “are meant to be”, as they say, you guys will find a way to make it work.</p>
<p>My two cents! Best to you in making your decision!!</p>
<p>KD1029, my D is doing the undergrad research program (molecular bio/neuroscience) this summer at Princeton. How was your experience?</p>
<p>Hey ivy, even Im an intl and have got an admit to U Miami Miller School of Medicine. 
But Im considering UPitt and UMass.
Thou I liked the faculty n stuff at UMiami, it seems they dont pay fully for your health insurance. Apart from research, finance is also a consoderation for me.</p>
<p>Well said, IT’s THEIR LOSS!!!
Anyways, yet to hear from Dartmouth MCB, Northwestern IGP and Vanderbilt IGP.
But its almost April now and I dunno wat to expect from them.
hmmm…</p>
<p>@ sydneya:</p>
<p>Regarding being kicked out for 2 C’s - My program would likely kick you out for this mostly because it shows a really poor understanding of the material, and is strong evidence that you’re going to fail your Quals anyway. Sure it’s hard to learn that much that fast, but this IS graduate school - you’re (or at least We’re) only taking 3 classes at once, and I think there’s really no excuse for getting 2 C’s in your first year. I could understand 1 C, if there’s extenuating circumstances, but 2 is approaching a pattern…</p>
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<p>Your career might or might not work out as well. You may not make it through grad school (national attrition rates in the biomedical sciences are about 25%) or you may get through and decide you don’t want to stay in research or science altogether. I wouldn’t be so eager to give up something that is going really well in my life.</p>
<p>On the other hand, NYC and Philly are not that far apart and you are probably going to have to lead separate lives at some point, maybe when your boyfriend starts his residency, maybe when you start your postdoc, or maybe for a position afterwords. Hopefully you can make all those things work out in the same cities, but who knows.</p>