<p>Interview with Pitt IGBP on 3/6. I heard this morning via email.</p>
<p>Still waiting on UNC BBSP and Duke Cell and Molecular.</p>
<p>Anyone know of any good questions to ask during the interviews?</p>
<p>just got interviews from Scripps and UChicago Biophysics</p>
<p>got a Weill Cornell Systems Biology interview on the 16th</p>
<p>both Scipprs plus Weill Cornell in top 10 stipends!!1</p>
<p>did not even know that</p>
<p>Patches:</p>
<p>I’m still waiting for the immuno track as well…</p>
<p>anyone heard from harvard mcb yet?</p>
<p>or princeton mol bio for that matter?</p>
<p>Virion, I received an interview from UPenn-BGS for their CAMB program on Jan. 10th via email. Your stats are similar to mine:</p>
<p>Status: Senior; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick/Piscataway
GPA: 3.672/4.0 - Science/Non-science GPAs are within .05 of each other
GRE General: 560 V, 770 M, 5.0 writing (77%, 88%, 77% respectively)
GRE Subject (BioChem): 530, 53%</p>
<p>Research is strong. I’ve been at the same lab since freshman year, did two years as work study and then junior/senior years as undergraduate research. A’s on all three semester papers so far.
Good rec. letters - I’ve seen the one from my PI and it’s very good.</p>
<p>I was nervous on the subject test; I didn’t study at all and didn’t realize really how difficult it was going to be, but I guess it wasn’t enough of a downfall as I thought.</p>
<p>Your stats are similar to mine overall, so I hope you can get an interview. The trump may be the fact that I was educated in the US and you were not, but who knows. Also, though I’ve done a lot of research, it hasn’t really been too substantial, other than the fact that some of my data is being used in my PI’s NIH grant proposal for Feb. 2009. But no publications or anything of that sort.</p>
<p>My interview weekend is Feb. 5-7, but they have one in late Feb., so keep hopes up. I’m also waiting for Weill Cornell, WUSTL-DBBS, Rockefeller, Princeton, and Rutgers. I hope to hear from them soon, especially since others have already.</p>
<p>MCTitans, what is your major at Rutgers? I go to Rutgers as well fyi</p>
<p>What is your research field in?</p>
<p>Thanks for your encouragement, MCTitans. I keep my finger crossed.</p>
<p>manofscience, I am a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (MBB) major. Do you go to NB/Piscataway as well?</p>
<p>My research is with the Center of Alcohol Studies on the Busch Campus. My PI’s lab centers around osteocalcin (OC) and its role in modulating the SNS response to acute and chronic stress. Specifically, what I do is part mol. bio and materials science. For our subjects, which are mice, my research involves testing for morphological and compositional differences in femoral bone in OC KO vs. WT mice. In the past I have only done computer analysis work ([SkyScan1172</a> High resolution micro-CT scanner](<a href=“http://www.skyscan.be/products/1172.htm]SkyScan1172”>http://www.skyscan.be/products/1172.htm) - I use the SkyScan 1172 and subsequent software), but this semester I actually lead a vivarium experiment drinking study. In the past I had analyzed bones from other students’ studies, but this year, being my senior year, I completed the drinking study myself and will again be analyzing the subjects (n = 40) bones, both femurs and vertebrae.</p>
<p>It’s been really fun so far and I hope my prior preliminary data will aid the prospects of my PI getting another grant from NIH.</p>
<p>I’m hoping for an interview at WUSTL-DBBS, because one of the professors does bone research and is a reviewer for one of the journals we cite a lot in our papers (Journal of Bone and Mineral Research).</p>
<p>yes i am mbb as well and i spend my time in cabm doing protein work</p>
<p>Very cool. I just PM’ed you, manofscience.</p>
<p>I heard back from Harvard MCB finally. Phone interview (via email). But then I got confused. The contact person emailed all the applicants before that there will be a interview weekend (Feb 11-14). How does admission committee decide who should go to the recruitment weekend (with campus tour) and who should get a phone interview?</p>
<p>Nevermind. Got another email from Harvard MCB inviting me to visit the campus from Feb 11 to 14! They made a mistake and thought I lived outside US… XD</p>
<p>Any more calls from Stanford? Or is Biosciences done with interview invites? :/</p>
<p>One of my friends is still waiting on Stanford for chemistry. I know it’s a different program, but I’m sure they all coordinate with the Graduate Dean. He’s received acceptances from UC-Berkeley and Princeton already. He has a Gates interview, and if accepted as a Gates Scholar, he will probably go to Cambridge for the first two years.</p>
<p>Has anybody received an interview invitation from Emory – Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program?</p>
<p>Got my 1st interview from UAB. i applied to biomedical-engineering programs mostly, so i think my deadlines were later than other people. But for UAB i applied for visual sciences. </p>
<p>Stats : 3.3 University of CA
GRE: 410V (i know, screw the verbal section) 710Q 4.5W
3 internships, 2 @ Berkeley
2 papers, fairly high impact</p>
<p>applied : Illinois champaign, RPI, Tufts, UCI, UCD, UCR, SUNY Buffalo (iner dis program), Houston Medical sciences, George Washignton, and Washington of Univ. </p>
<p>interviews : UAB
Rejected : Washington Univ. (visual sciences) </p>
<p>Good luck everyone!! hope i see someone at UAB on the 16-17th</p>
<p>Anyone applied to Harvard BPH?
Heard anything?</p>
<p>Husband got an interview at ASU.</p>