<p>To those of you who got Michigan PIBS invites via phone, have you received the email notification yet? The professor I spoke with told me it would arrive shortly, but I still haven’t gotten it. Anyone have any experience with this?</p>
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<p>Yes, I have had experience with being far too neurotic for anyone’s good after submitting applications. Seriously, I’m not being mean, I did exactly all this last year, there’s probably proof if you want to look through my old posts. ;)</p>
<p>You got the call. You can relax. I had a professor call me and tell me an e-mail would follow shortly, but it took a couple days and I panicked too. I know you’re worried that you’re missing something or it’s not real until you get the e-mail or whatever else, but you can relax a little. It’s real. The e-mail is coming. The departments are very busy with applications and getting things ready and well, Christmas is next week so while your entire world revolves around these phone calls and e-mails and letters until the time that you accept an offer and decide where you’re going, actually sending the e-mail is just a tedious part of someone’s job at a time they’ve got other things on their mind. </p>
<p>There’s plenty of time left before your interview. If you got the call saying an e-mail is coming, then it’s coming. Wait for it and try to relax. :)</p>
<p>Just got an interview (by email) for UChicago, Immunology.</p>
<p>Hahaha, thanks for the reality check, New_User. </p>
<p>I’m certain it’s not good for anyone to be bored at home from college, completely snowed in and revolving around the computer. You guys should all go out and build a snowman if your home is in the Midwest- it’s therapeutic and sucks up about 3 hours. :-)</p>
<p>Just got a call from University of Iowa Genetics program for an interview.</p>
<p>Received interviews today from:</p>
<p>Yale BBS (cell bio) via phone and Hopkins CMM via email, international applicant. </p>
<p>One question for past applicants, I have several schools that interview the same weekend, how should I go about sorting this out? I would love to visit all the schools before making a decision, would the school accept alternate weekends?</p>
<p>Yes, generally if you can’t make it for one weekend, there will be an alternate date.</p>
<p>I just got an email from UCSF BMS for an interview! And I’m an international applicant.</p>
<p>congrats PhD-Bound! you will be busy busy come Jan/Feb/Mar. Glad to see a fellow Canadian doing so well, it gives hope to the rest of us :).</p>
<p>To echo some of the sentiments above, I know it’s a bit early to be anxious and worried about not receiving interview offers, but I am pratically refreshing my email inbox every chance I get and getting excited every time the phone rings that it’s bordering on neurotic. That’s why I try to plan as much outdoor activities to distract myself and enjoy the holidays, but this cold weather and snowstorms are really not doing wonders for this plan.</p>
<p>abendwind, mind sharing your stats?</p>
<p>Thanks neurokid, I was a little surprised with my progress so far myself. I think this is still early in the process, and invites go out in batches. The fact that I was complete at most schools by Mid-Nov may have did me a little favor in terms of timing of invites. </p>
<p>mollie, the problem for me is that in some cases, I am unavailable for both interview weekends, did you or did you know anyone else that was able to schedule interviews outside of their recruitment weekends? I have a feeling that the adcom will not like this.</p>
<p>Program: CAMB at UPenn
Interview Date: Jan 15-17</p>
<p>Undergrad school: Cornell
Citizenship: Canadian
Submission of Application: Dec 5
Invitation for Interview: Dec 17</p>
<p>GRE: 770V/800Q/4.5W, GPA: 3.57
Research Experience: 2 years of intense research. 1 year of non-involved research.
Publication: 1 published. 2 more submitted. 3 more in preparation.</p>
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Yes, that’s what I mean – I had a school where I couldn’t make either scheduled weekend, so they asked me to come on a different weekend (I didn’t end up going, because by then I’d been accepted to at least one school much higher on my list, so I don’t know if it would have been just me or others). This isn’t a totally unusual situation, and it’s not a problem.</p>
<p>Program: BMS/ UCSF
Interview Date: February 12-14</p>
<p>Citizenship: International
Submission of Application: Nov 24
Invitation for Interview: Dec 19</p>
<p>General GRE: 800V (99%)/800Q (94%)/5.0AW (73%); Biochemistry Subject GRE: 750 (99%)
GPA: 4.00
Research Experience: ~ 2 years.
Publications: 2 submitted. Poster presentation at a conference.</p>
<p>@ Abendwind</p>
<p>where did you go for undergrad?</p>
<p>Hope you don’t mind, but I’d prefer not to specify, beyond the fact that it was an Ivy League.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity- does anyone know which kinds of graduate programs have or don’t have interviews as a part of the process? (i.e. engineering, pure chemistry, physics, biology, math, vs. biomedical science, etc)</p>
<p>Got an email from UChicago-BMS yesterday!
Although now I’m really panicking about UPenn because they saymy application is incomplete too, although on the front page there’s nothing that is missing!
Anyone apply to Yale BBS-Immunology and hear back?</p>
<p>whooo yale bbs… guess ill be seeing you there biostudent 
phoned in for recruitment weekend, jan 29th. does anyone know if this is the only weekend available or have people been given other dates?
also i have a bit of a dilemma… im an internationaly student and will be out of the country till late january… should i be emailling admissions offices and letting them know this? for some reason i assumed most decisions/interview notifications would occur via email…</p>
<p>columbia neurobiology & behavior this morning!</p>