<p>After I heard from Rockefeller I cancelled most of my interviews. I get the impression that they appreciate you not wasting their time if you’re not interested anymore.</p>
<p>lajkfdgi – had you already had flights scheduled with those schools that you canceled your interviews with? Do you know if it is possible to cancel a weekend if you have already made travel arrangements?</p>
<p>I was also wondering if it is still polite to cancel interviews after making travel arrangements. It seems like the program has really put in a lot of work into figuring out the arrangements and scheduling faculty interviews with the faculty requested. So after that stage is it still preferred by the program that you cancel if you don’t see yourself attending that program and have been accepted by another program?</p>
<p>update- admitted to Einstein by phone call on Thursday (1 week after interview)</p>
<p>Is it true that if someone gets accepted by Rockefeller, his/her chances of getting accepted by Harvard goes down (and vice versa)? My friend who’s now at Harvard BBS says that this is because they don’t want to fight for the same students. Can anyone verify this rumour?</p>
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I canceled 3 of mine (of 9 applications), even after I had travel arrangements for two of them. As much as plane tickets cost, they’ll spend more on you if you come, and if you’re totally uninterested in attending, don’t waste your time and theirs.</p>
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This is absolutely untrue. Grad programs don’t really care if you come or not – they’ll try to get you to come if you want, but they’re not concerned with yield protection like undergrad programs are. There’s no reason not to accept you if you’re a good applicant, because they don’t really lose anything if you don’t choose to attend.</p>
<p>Anyone else going to Baylor this week? Coming from Michigan, I’m looking forward to some warm weather for a few days.</p>
<p>Don’t want to disappoint you - but it’s VERY cold in Houston now :((( I have my interview in Baylor Feb,25th TBMM program. How did You like Michigan?</p>
<p>Libra84- Considering it’s 20-30 at best here, I’ll gladly take 60s (which I would by no means consider cold).</p>
<p>Hi 411SL,</p>
<p>I know from 2 postdocs (got PhDs in immuno from UW Seattle and Yale) that most schools do NOT send you rejection letters. Harvard certainly did not send me any rejection letter and I know that I am rejected for certain (interview weekend already happened for immuno).</p>
<p>I know, why do they do that? I think after taking $70-110 of your money the least you can do is to send you a lousy e-mail!</p>
<p>I know UCSF sends out rejection e-mails though - I got mine in early January.</p>
<p>Many programs will often only send rejections when they have finished their application process for the year – in late March or early April.</p>
<p>Congrats to everybody with interviews/acceptances.</p>
<p>Neuro programs:</p>
<p>applied- UCSD, UCLA, UCSF, UCI, UC Berkeley, WUSTL, Yale bbs, Harvard dms, Stanford Biosci, JHU, Columbia</p>
<p>interviews- UCLA, UCSF, UCI, WUSTL, Yale BBS</p>
<p>rejected- none</p>
<p>Does anyone know if UCSD, UC Berkeley, or Stanford is finished sending out interview invitations? When do schools usually send out rejection letters?</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is probably done. Stanford has started, but very few people have been contacted. They cannot be done already.</p>
<p>So, while I would love for Stanford to keep on calling, I am scared that we are reaching a sort-of deadline here… My friends who were called three weeks ago about the interviews said that there is a February 2 deadline by which they have to make their travel arrangements. So, I guess, if the rest of us haven’t heard by this week… </p>
<p>Sigh…</p>
<p>Was that for neuroscience</p>
<p>Neuroscience interviews are not until March 4th.</p>
<p>So I’m a grad at Stanford right now and I can tell you that if you applied to a department under the Biosciences umbrella that most (if not all) of the departments have made their calls already. In my home program/department, we’ve already chosen who we’re going to host for the big interview weekend. And yes, Stanford has a loose rule about making travel arrangements at least one month before travel, so you are probably right about that. The only catch might be that programs who have a significant number of people decline to come interview might move 1 or 2 down a “waitlist.” However, generally they invite enough people in the first go round that the adcom is not worried if a few people don’t come. Last year I got called on Jan 9th. </p>
<p>Shnjb, Neuroscience, being under the Bioscience umbrella, has its interviews held at the same time as all the other Biosciences interviews (March 4-8). Everyone comes at once and there is just a giant mess of interviews, parties, and booze.</p>
<p>Also, if anyone is waiting to hear from Harvard’s BBS, I got an acceptance call on wednesday from them where the prof said “we’re finishing up our application reviews…” so extract whatever meanings you would like from that. I’ve found that in these situations knowing anything is better than the anxiety of not knowing…but then again I suppose there are those people who got calls in mid-feb. last year.</p>
<p>If anybody is wondering, the Harvard BBS website says that they will be sending out their acceptance notifications until the first week of February, so they’re not done yet. </p>
<p>Interestingly enough, I just got invited to interview at the Dept of Biology at Boston University, despite having submitted my application about 6 weeks after the deadline (see page 46). I guess they want me real bad… hehe</p>
<p>Applied: Harvard BBS, MIT Bio, Tufts A&S Bio, Tufts Sackler, Brandeis, Northeastern, BU
Interviews: Brandeis, Northeastern, BU</p>
<p>No other responses yet.</p>
<p>@fishy: There is indeed a Feb. 2 deadline to make travel arrangements for the Stanford interview according to the email and brochure packet that I’ve received.</p>
<p>I’m also wondering about canceling interviews once travel arrangements have been made. I got an interview invite last week that conflicts with an interview I already have scheduled, but the more recent invite is to one of my top choices. Is there any way to politely decline once they have bought the plane tickets?</p>
<p>Dear xiv21,</p>
<p>Do you MIND going to the other school’s recruitment weekend? Do they have a secondary weekend?? </p>
<p>You may be able to just change the flights - I’ve had to do that to 2 schools. While you will most likely have to pay the change of schedule fee to the airline, and it IS a pain, but it might work out in the end - for me it did, my new flights were cheaper than the original so I actually got 90% of my money back as a flight voucher. Woohoo!!</p>
<p>MCTitans: It’s academia.edu. It’s a pretty cool website.</p>
<p>furiousbalancing, </p>
<p>Congrats on BU. I see you’ll be going to Northeastern and BU interviews, I’ll be there too.</p>