<p>Hello I’m a new comer here ^^. I’m an international student living outside the US (Thailand). I applied for admissions to UCLA (access), UCSD, UPenn, Duke, Stanford biosciences, Wash U, UT Austin, Princeton U (MolBio). (I have received the government scholarship to study abroad).</p>
<p>I’ve just received an email from the ACCESS about an interview. They will be responsible for my travel and accommodation expenses. Do you think I am highly possible to be accepted? or Do they only want to talk to me before the other decision? </p>
<p>I haven’t heard from any other places except a rejection from Wash U. I don’t know whether I still have chances of being interviewed or not. Quite worried.</p>
<p>Anyway, congratulations!!! to all of you being accepted and good luck!!! for all that are waiting.</p>
<p>Well, my stat is just not so good, but I think it’s not too bad.</p>
<p>GPA : 3.91
TOEFL iBT: 103, GRE 370 25%(V) 770 88%(Q) 4.0 37%(AW), GRE Biology 730 (72%) </p>
<p>At first, I was sick of my general scores. However, I’m not sure I could improve the verbal part, so I decided not to retake it. </p>
<p>I graduated in March 08 and now being a research assistant in one of my advisor’s lab. I have been a student in a special science program since I was in high school. Therefore, I have got science projects, presentations, trainings, experience since then. However, my senior project was not in either biomedical or molecular biology area, I’m not sure whether these things are helpful. (but I think my national scholarship has helped me) </p>
<p>My friends here are still waiting also. Maybe the time for international students comes after the permanent residents. So, keep cheering up yourself, I hope you will finally be successful. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>For all that it’s worth, I called Harvard BBS this morning to inquire my application status, and was told that they will only start sending decision letters in March. So I’ve to wait till March to get my rejection letter! Ugh.</p>
<p>How do you talk about your research experience at an interview? </p>
<p>Like when you are generally asked “Can tell me about your research experiences?”, do you talk about your most significant project(s)? or projects that relevant to the interviewer’s works? or what you are currently doing? I have done few research projects in few different fields. My field is virology, but my most significant project is in pharmacology. Should I at least mention it? Or should I just focus on virology-related projects? Thanks for your advices.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, absolutely! Harvard Neuroscience is good, but Stanford’s is mad competitive, and since they only take 10 people per year in each of their home programs, it happens that you can be great and get an interview offer from Harvard, but not one from Stanford.</p>
<p>virion> If you’re doing virology programs, I would probably go for a concise statement about your work in pharmacology and then say that right now you’re working on this virology project. I think most faculty are looking for how well you can talk about your science and if you were able to understand the broader impact of your work. Mostly, talk about the topic of which you’re most comfortable and if the PI wants to talk about the other stuff then they’ll ask you. I have had this happen to me, where the interviewer decided to focus on some random undergrad projects I did, as opposed to the last 2 years of dedicated research. I wouldn’t worry too much on matching up your projects with your interviewer’s interests. </p>
<p>MCTitans> I don’t know if its the same this year, but I know last year WUSTL had a late interview weekend in mid March. I don’t know how late they were giving invites, though it doesn’t seem unreasonable for them to still be processing invites.
Weill I’m less sure about because they only had one interview weekend last year in mid/late Feb, so its getting close to being too late to receive an invite… but nothing is certain until you receive some contact so take that how you will.</p>