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Congrats!!! Did you get a phone call or an email? Do you mind sharing the dates?

Sure! I will contact them, and I guess I will make it for early Feb!

Congrats! And me too! =D I was thrilled to find an email from POI this morning, which also said a formal email will follow later. But since I'm an international student, they asked me for a Skype interview. The fact is I'm actually in the States now and will stay until Feb. Did they give you the interview dates? I want to try and ask them for an on-campus interview.

Hi guys! Congrats on those who already got invites! Does anybody know if Yale MCGD has sent all their invites? Also, are there any international applicants who have heard from their program so far? Anxiety has taken me...

After spending a lot of time searching, I finally get in touch with a famous neuroscience professor from one of the top institutes. I spent a great deal of time reading his papers and raised some good questions in my first email. I also asked if he would be taking new students next year, and I get a really positive response. He said a lot about the questions I raised, using words like "interesting" and "excellent" occasionally, and gave me the following response: "I appreciate your interest in our graduate program and my laboratory. At present I anticipate that I will be taking new students in 2016. And of course in addition to my laboratory we have a rich diversity of neuroscience groups here at XXX. Please feel free to contact me or any of our faculty regarding our program or our work. I look forward to seeing your application to our program for the 2016-17 academic year." I know it was a really encouraging response, however, I haven't mentioned my credentials to the professor, so far. My GPA (3.3/4.0) has always been my great concern. Though I know most schools give a minimum GPA of 3.0, I heard that most top schools especially for competitive programs like Neuroscience usually don't consider students with a GPA less than 3.5. So I am very nervous. I then followed a email asking about other PhD programs in which this professor participated. This time I found he was very nice and told me that his students were/had been from all these programs and it didn't make much difference. He only mentioned that he always suggests his students who are not from the neuroscience programs taking courses as neuroscience students do. He encouraged me again on applying their programs. My GRE scores are V160/Q170/AW3.5, so GPA is literally my biggest concern. I also had a paper accepted recently but the journal's IF is only 1.7, so I doubt if it could polish my application. I will keep in touch with this professor, however, should I tell him about my GPA? I am very worried that though he might be interested in me, my documents may even not be handed to the committee. So what should I do?