<p>I have seen some grad cafe posts about rejections being sent out from Duke Neurobiology. Most of us check these forums too so do you mind posting here when you submitted your applications to Duke, when you got the emails from their enrollment office saying your application was complete and perhaps stats? </p>
<p>I have been waiting to hear and I have seen no posts here about Duke then today a bunch of rejections on grad cafe. Very nerve racking.</p>
<p>Is anyone else going to Duke for interviews or still waiting to hear from them?</p>
<p>It depends which lab you’re interested in. If you check out PubMed, you will see that nobody from USC published stellar papers in stem cell biology. However, they have a couple of well organized courses, so theoretical background you gain there is pretty strong.</p>
<p>Hi brainlab, I got an interview at Duke (Cell and Molecular Bio). I’m not sure if you were specifically talking about neurobio or not. I submitted the app Dec. 15, and found out Jan 23 via email about the interview offer. Their weekends (again, CMB not neuro) are Feb 13-15 and Feb 26-28. I got an email around Jan. 7th or so on the status of my application and then another weekly status notification the following week. When I didn’t receive the status email the following week, I figured I had either gotten rejected or invited to interview, and I was right.</p>
<p>I just read on gradcafe that Stanford Biosciences is sending another batch of snail mails (why they use this, I don’t know).</p>
<p>Does this mean neuroscience included?
I don’t really know what they mean when people say biosciences since it is an umbrella program with 13 divisions underneath but you still do have to choose one program.</p>
<p>I actually applied directly to USC’s neuro program, and don’t know know much about stem cell research going on there, sorry! I would love to hear more about the school though - there are three professors doing research I’m interested there, but besides that I really don’t know much about the program or school in general. I will be visiting Feb 20-22.</p>
<p>Grad cafe does indeed say that Stanford Biosci is sending another batch… but yes, which programs. And is this ‘batch of letters’ one with acceptances, or one with rejections? If they equivocated like that with my poor heart, I will screaaaaammmm. </p>
<p>In other topic - Any impressions from Penn’s first interview?</p>
<p>So I’m a new member, and I was wondering if a couple of schools are still sending out invites. I’m waiting to hear from MIT, Harvard BBS, and Stanford Biosciences. At this point should I just assume I’ve been rejected?</p>
<p>Results from other schools:
Accepted: Johns Hopkins
Interviews: Yale BBS, Princeton Mol Bio, UPenn
Declined interview: UNC
Still waiting: MIT, Harvard BBS, and Stanford </p>
<p>SmpA - from your acceptance and interview offers, you look to be great for all your schools. There is some ambiguity to whether or not MIT is done sending out interview requests. When are you going on your Penn interview? Or did you go already? I go on Feb. 5-7.</p>
<p>Earlier this month I got “You can expect to hear final notification regarding admissions decisions by mid-April… You will not receive another e-mail from us until a decision has been made about your application.” Their website has absolutely nothing about interviews (at least that I could find in my careful scouring). I took this together to mean that for some odd reason, they don’t do interviews. Yes, I could have inquired, but why would they fail to mention it?</p>
<p>Today, I got an invitation to interview 2/17 - 2/18.</p>
<p>This is, of course, good news… but it’s annoying since it’s demolishing the extra time I already had scheduled in the Bay with my boyfriend after my UCSF interview. I simply wish Berkeley could have bothered to mention that they even have an interview visit. Every interaction I have had with them has been lackluster.</p>