<p>Grad<em>02</em>02_09: It shouldn’t hurt to check with the program administrator/coordinator. The process may simply be taking longer than they originally anticipated.</p>
<p>noface: New Haven also has a train station; there is both Amtrak and Metro-North service.</p>
<p>Thanks Mollie, that’s good to hear. I will email the students in the lab.</p>
<p>To those who interviewed at Stanford (Biosciences), have all of you heard back? I see that some of the home programs have notified those accepted. Has anyone in the Biology home program heard anything?</p>
<p>I interviewed in the Cancer bio program and haven’t heard back yet. I thought I didn’t get in, but I haven’t received a rejection letter either. <em>Shrugs</em></p>
<p>I heard from Biology on Wednesday (3/11/09), and so did a few other people I knew.</p>
<p>I still haven’t heard anything from Stanford (Immuno)…</p>
<p>Same… :(</p>
<p>UPenn - rejection via e-mail. International.</p>
<p>what do you do if your second choice school has a response deadline that falls before you hear back from your first choice school?</p>
<p>Ask the second-choice program for an extension. :)</p>
<p>I heard from Stanford Biosciences – home program: biology last week on Tuesday. I know others who have also heard from that home program, as well as others from stanford cancer bio and biochem.</p>
<p>Sorry, just to be clear, I heard from Stanford Biology with an acceptance post interview.</p>
<p>UT –> rejected</p>
<p>UVM interview tomorrow, really excited!</p>
<p>One more question. Is anyone considering UCSD biology? What are the important factors weighing into your decision?</p>
<p>is that an OK thing to do? or would they ever just drop your offer?</p>
<p>Is anyone on this forum is going to BU? I am going there and wanted if anyone else on this forum will also be there.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your input regarding Stanford Biosciences Biology Home Program. Does anyone know if they do waitlists? Or do they just make offers, and then take those who accept their offers without adding from a waitlist?</p>
<p>I don’t see why it wouldn’t be an okay thing to ask for an extension. They might not grant you an extension, but they shouldn’t withdraw the offer simply because you asked them a question.</p>
<p>UCSD has a lot of amazing stuff going for it …</p>
<ul>
<li>quality of faculty, especially new ones</li>
<li>degree of overlap between multiple departments – bio / bms / chem-biochem / BE / etc</li>
<li>some brand-spanking-new lab buildings that went up in the ~5 years</li>
<li>opportunities for networking, from smaller ones (burnham, salk, tsri) to big (pfizer, j&j, eli lilly just bought SGX)</li>
<li>huge undergraduate population, good for teaching development and any random classes you deem interesting (yoga, japanese, scuba, underwater basketweaving - i’m not kidding on that one)</li>
<li>weather: can’t be beat</li>
<li>beach: can’t be beat (i had labmates who did early-morning ocean swims, i’d see others surfing dawn patrol)</li>
<li>readily available non-campus housing within 3 mi of campus, decently priced (as most undergrads live in the area too)</li>
</ul>
<p>noface: Are you considering Princeton for next year?</p>