<p>hope i can be informed of interviews soon.</p>
<p>Have anyone heard from DKFZ (Germany)?</p>
<p>Still nobody that applied direct to Michigan’s Neuroscience program has heard? And what about U Chicago Neurobiology? I hate waiting like this… :/</p>
<p>You are definitely not alone in The Hatred of the Waiting</p>
<p>Yeah, even a rejection would be preferable to this…</p>
<p>Oh well, time to find something else to do besides updating email 200 times a day.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when Columbia and Einstein are holding their interviews? I’m still hoping to hear back from them…</p>
<p>411SL Which Program are you referring too?
Not to dash your hopes, according to posts on here, on gradcafe.com, and my conversation with Ms. Cecil Oberbeck, Program Coordinator at Columbia for neuro they have already sent out their first interviews. I’m dissappointed too cause I didnt get one of them.</p>
<p>“Does anyone know when Columbia and Einstein are holding their interviews? I’m still hoping to hear back from them…”</p>
<p>For Einstein (Biomedical Sciences) there are three interview events in February, the first on Feb 2nd. I think the other ones are the 16th and the 23rd…?</p>
<p>asubedee:</p>
<p>Yeah, my last name starts in an earlier letter. Judging from last year, BBS seems to inform people in waves - some people as late as early February.</p>
<p>kupolu: congrats on harvard! a couple questions for you-</p>
<ol>
<li>what department(s) did you list (as top choices) on your Harvard BBS application? I’m not sure about the alphabetical thing, but I would expect different departments to inform at different times. </li>
<li>You mentioned a while ago that Stanford would be making final decisions Monday- do you know anything about when they are planning to start informing applicants? </li>
</ol>
<p>thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Just got a call from Emory neuroscience for an interview. The weekends are feb. 12-14 and feb. 26-28. </p>
<p>Applied: Emory neuro, Vanderbilt IGP, Vanderbilt neuro integrative/cognitive, UVA, UGA, U Pen, NYU neural science
Interviews: UVA, Emory, NYU
No rejections yet. </p>
<p>I turned in all my apps around Thanksgiving time except for the Vandy IGP app. I just submitted that this past week.</p>
<p>ymmit:</p>
<p>I listed Microbial Pathogenesis, Cell & Molecular, and Biochemistry and Proteomics as my three areas, in that order. The professor who called me wasn’t really in my area, so I assumed she was on the adcom.</p>
<p>neurostudent
Congrats on your Emory Interview. So interesting and cool that they would call on Sunday evening to do an interview invite. So sad too b/c I was waiting to hear from them.</p>
<p>brainlab-
they said that they just started reviewing the applications on Friday so there is definitely still time.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answers brainlab and roxannecellbio. For Columbia, I applied to the integrated program in cell/molecular/biomedsci, and Einstein was an open program. =/</p>
<p>So anyone have any tips on how to prepare for interviews? Should I be reading papers of people who have either contacted me directly or whom I am interested in working with? Should I do some extra reviewing on on the specific field I am interested in?</p>
<p>If you are given the names of the PIs with whom you will interview before the interview, you might consider looking up a few of their papers and being familiar with the basic outline of their work. This isn’t required, though, and nobody will quiz you on the details. In an interview, the PI will talk about his or her work, and then you will talk about the research you’ve done. Be sure you can talk about your previous research in depth, but in a manner that’s accessible to someone who’s not necessarily in your subfield. Be able to explain your motivations and experimental strategies.</p>
<p>Mollie, can I ask where you got the 60-80% of interviewees are accepted? I spoke to people involved in a specific dept at University of Colorado and the stats were substantially different. I also checked Duke’s statistics and found that even if they interview on the order of half of their applicants, they must have post-interview acceptance rates in the range you mentioned. I don’t know if this is due to CU having high ambitions, limited spots or less stellar applicants than Duke. I would sure like to hear where you obtained that info though.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if UCSD informs in waves? I noticed a few people have been informed via e-mail this weekend.</p>
<p>kupolu,</p>
<p>how did the professor with whom you talked indicate that they were notifying the applicants in waves? thanks a lot and congratulations!</p>