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I'm entering a microbiology (more environmental than biomedical) phd program. Should I keep or sell back (~200$) my Immunology and Cellular and Molecular biology books?

How does the cost of living in these two places compare? Health insurance benefits? For me, personally, 3k does not go that much further over the course of the year. I think I'm going to run into this problem too but one thing I'm really taking into consideration also is location and how happy I'd be there.

Portland State University, general bio grad program

Someone in the results posted: "You people who were accepted into the biology program should go somewhere else. Portland is bad when it comes to that program." I'm guessing this person frequents this forum, why do you say this about the Portland program?

Just those two places. They were two of my top, so I'm pretty happy.

Went ahead and applied for PhD. Congrats on your acceptance as well, fellow microbial ecologist!

Congrats! A very exciting program!

Acceptance offers from Oregon State and Portland State today. I'm excite. But I also have an interview with another school in two weeks. Wish these things were timed better.

The program does have the option of doing rotations or else accepts students straight into a lab, but they accept few students to do rotations because of limited TAships. I'm afraid asking to do rotations would hurt my chances.

I need some advice so I'm back on this thread. I also want to say congrats to everyone here! Even if you don't get into the schools that you wanted to, I think we should all be pretty proud of ourselves for dealing with the applications process. Anyway, what's the etiquette for this following situation. There are two POIs at my top choice who I've talked with and I get along with. Their fields of research are slightly different but both fall along my general research interest. I have interviewed at this school recently but acceptance letters have not been sent out yet. Both of these professors have sent me emails about their interest in me as a potential student of theirs and are requesting to speak with me more. I guess I just don't really know what to do, just speak with both of them and express interest in working with them (but also mention that I'm talking to Prof X) and hope that one of them accept me into their lab? I applied for the overall program, not directly for a specific PI, but I don't want to step on any toes. Thanks for any opinions.

Thank you for the quick reply

Anyone know when CU Boulder EBIO makes decisions?

I have another question: Do most schools interview on Fridays? I only applied to state schools and I am expecting at least one visit. Do many mid-ranked (still don't really know where the schools I applied are ranked) state schools do skype interveiws instead? I am concerned about the Friday thing because I have one class that is Friday morning only, and I don't want to end up missing it (I live far away from absolutely everything so if I had to travel, it would take most of the day). So I may end up not taking this class. My questions here are often a little random but I really appreciate everyone who has helped me out!

ugh nightmare... I log onto this portal (which I didn't know I could do until today) and see that my GRE scores have not been received in Montana (I sent them in October). Just ranting here. I wonder why this is happening?

I second the Boulder app being difficult. I hate to say that because that program is my top choice. I was travelling for the holidays and had to find away to scan and upload the paper part of the app. Additionally one of my documents did not upload because you had to have ALL the documents uploaded at once, couldn't save and then go back. So I had to email the missing document to the graduate department. How embarrassing