<p>gsfall09, looks like you’re right. Eh, whatever.</p>
<p>Hi-</p>
<p>I’ve been reading this thread for some time, and I have found it very helpful. I’m looking for some advice on scheduling interviews.</p>
<p>Columbia’s CMBS program (specifically within this C2B2) sent out interview requests in mid-December, and I told them that I would be coming for their interview weekend. I have just (today) received an interview request for MIT’s CSB program, which is the very same weekend. In their e-mail, MIT mentioned nothing about other potential times to interview, while Columbia did.</p>
<p>Should I e-mail MIT or Columbia requesting for a different interview date? Presumably MIT is a superior school, but I don’t want to ruin my chances at Columbia by changing things a month after confirming I would be there. I’m interested primarily in systems biology and evolutionary genetics, if anyone out there knows which school is superior in these areas.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!!</p>
<p>Also, for some help:
Interviews: MIT, Harvard, Cornell Tri-I Comp Bio, Stanford, UNC, Columbia
Waiting on: Princeton, Rockefeller</p>
<p>For those waiting fro invites from Stanford Biosciences and UCSF Neuro, I called them today. Stanford said they are still sending out invites, through January, for all Biosciences programs. UCSF said invites went out this week and “you will receive a letter by the end of the month”, which I take to mean that they are done.</p>
<p>gene_regulation, would you mind sharing your stats?</p>
<p>And it seems like you should e-mail Columbia if they were the ones with (the option of) other dates explicitly stated.</p>
<p>Sure:
GPA: 3.85
GRE: 800Q, 650V
3 years of mol bio research with professor famous in his field. No publication. Goldwater scholarship.</p>
<p>Hello, I am having the same conflict as Gene_Regulation except with Johns Hopkins/NIH GPP and Carnegie Mellon. Both are very similar programs, but both only offered one interview weekend which are (of course) at the same time. The catch is that the NIH GPP interview is a day earlier than the JHU/CMU interview, so I would be able to attend about 80% of the NIH/JHU interview and all of the CMU interview.</p>
<p>Do you think that it is polite/professional if I ask if I can visit JHU on my own (it is very close to where I go to school) and pay all expenses? Is there any correct way to handle this kind of situation? Since there are so many overlaps in interviews this must happen frequently.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>Hey guys</p>
<p>Do you know how badly you have to mess up to get rejected after an interview offer or what usually prevents people from ggetting accepted after interviews</p>
<p>Got a call from Duke Genetics and Genomics today for an interview weekend Feb 13th-14th. Anyone heard from UNC or Washington Genome Sciences?</p>
<p>treebecca</p>
<p>I had the same problem with the NIH/BU GPP and another university. The GPP program is pretty high on my list, so I called the other university and they let me reschedule their interview to a later date as a non-group interview visit. </p>
<p>I would also like to know if anyone has heard from UNC or UW Genome Sciences. I think someone mentioned earlier they thought Genome Sciences had already sent out interviews.</p>
<p>has anyone heard anything from top bioengineering programs?</p>
<p>I got an interview with University of Washington Genome Sciences and Emory Genetics and Molecular Biology.</p>
<p>Hey folks,
I’m new to the biological sciences, I come from a physics background, and I’ve gotten a number of interviews at my top west coast schools (in the biophysics programs): Berkeley, UCSF, Stanford. I am not at all sure what that means, and what these “interview weekends” involve. Does anyone have any statistics about acceptance rates from interviews for these schools?</p>
<p>Zac</p>
<p>Have MIT finished with their invites?</p>
<p>Acceptance rates vary post-interview by program. You would probably be safe if you assumed that 60-80% of those interviewed would be accepted post-interview, but some programs accept more interviewees than that, and some accept fewer.</p>
<p>The point of an interview is twofold: 1) for the faculty to talk with you and decide whether your research interests and your other research-related traits are a good fit for their program, and 2) for you to decide whether the program and the faculty members in it are a good fit for you. As such, interview weekends tend to be about half you being on your best behavior and half the program being on its best behavior.</p>
<p>You will be interviewed by some number of faculty members (usually 6-8 or so) in a one-on-one situation, and sometimes you will be interviewed by students. You will hear presentations on current student and/or faculty research. You will go out to dinner with students and faculty and eat better food than you will ever be able to eat on a grad student salary. You will probably see student apartments and go sightseeing around the area where the school is located. </p>
<p>Interview weekends are pretty fun, all things considered.</p>
<p>Hey All, </p>
<p>I read earlier that someone was asking about UPitt CNUP. Just got a call from them around 6pm EST Friday night (talk about an unexpected time to hear from them). They have 3 interview weekends in a row, starting the second week of February, and were heavily pushing the first two weekends as the times to go.</p>
<p>Also heard from Tufts Sackler last week via e-mail, since someone was asking about that too. Their interview weekends conflict with CNUP.</p>
<p>Lastly, I spoke with a very nice woman at UPenn Neuro Group, who told me they are doing another round of application reviews on Monday. So if you haven’t heard from them, my guess is you should not worry.</p>
<p>cazcazcaz, when did you hear from stanford biophysics?</p>
<p>I got a package yesterday from Stanford by mail. I was going to my parents house in Berkeley, which is very close to Stanford, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it took a little longer for other people to hear.</p>
<p>Kind of strange that Stanford Biophysics would choose to notify by mail. Did they send you a package to the address you listed as your ‘current address’ or ‘permanent address’ in your application?</p>
<p>(as you can tell, I’m a little antsy about this one)</p>
<p>I don’t think that I can shed much light on the question because I simply put my parents address in Berkeley as both (I’m living in MA right now). Remember that USPS is slow though.</p>
<p>Z</p>
<p>Any Canadians hear from:</p>
<p>Stanford
Harvard
MIT
Cornell
Northwestern
Rockefeller</p>