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I got an email telling me to check my application status on my application on Monday. But I submitted Late November/Early Dec

Me too. Also doing compu stuff...

Michigan PIBS Bioinfo (Not sure of the dates yet) came down Tuesday and UCLA Bioinfo (Feb 6-8) came literally 25 minutes ago for me!

Just got my first interview offer from UPenn Genomics and Computational Bio! So pumped!

It seems like some people are already starting to get some interview invites in. Do we have a thread putting the dates down already? If not, I was thinking starting a new thread similar to the 2012 Interview Dates Thread () A related question: do people know if the dates for the interviews in 2012 will be on similar (or even the same) weekends this year as they were last year? The template should be (just bold the ones you add to the list please!): School (Department/Field): Date Range 1, Date Range 2 (if applicable), ...

Undergrad Institution: Public Ivy (Research I) Major(s): Quantitative Biology (BS), Mathematics (BA) Minor(s): Computer Science Overall GPA: 3.59 Position in Class: Top 15% Type of Student: Domestic, Asian male GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 170 (99%) V: 160 (83%) W: 5.5 (96%) Research Experience: 1 summer experience in non-profit mouse lab, 1 summer experience at NIH/NCBI, 1.5 years in BMME lab (doing systems bio work), working computational side in RNA lab currently. No pubs, but 1 poster presentation Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's List (5/7 semesters), University Distinguished Scholar, Thomas J Watson Scholarship (IBM), Honors Program Pertinent Activities or Jobs: No TA positions because worked as a Resident Assistant and currently a Community Manager for the last 3 years to pay for my housing. Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Lots of experience working in diversity organizations on campus, but because I'm Asian, the ill-fated "over-represented minority" in science fields it probably doesn't mean much, especially for the UC schools I'm applying to. Special Bonus Points: Two recommenders have graduated from or worked at a couple of the institutions I'm applying for. Applying to Where: Probably reaching for most of these, but mostly interested in computational/systems biology, but I definitely eventually want to make a jump to biomedical/health informatics NYU Sackler Institute - Biomedical Informatics Cornell - Graduate Field in Computational Biology UCSF iPQB - Bioinformatics Harvard GSAS - Systems Biology Yale BBS - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics UCSD - Bioinformatics UW Seattle - Biomedical and Health Informatics UCLA - Bioinformatics Stanford Biosciences - Chemical and Systems Bio Michigan PIBS - Bioinformatics Columbia Center for Computational and Biology and Bioinformatics UPenn BGS - Genomics and Computational Biology

I'm currently in the application cycle for Biomedical Informatics PhD programs. As far as this field is concerned, it's a pretty new field from what I've gathered and should grow pretty quickly given the current tendencies to digitize health and patient data. There aren't that many programs that study biomedical informatics or translational informatics that I am aware of, but the all of the current programs stem from schools with strong bioinformatics and computational biology programs. You'll find most of these programs attached to schools with large hospitals because that's probably where most of the generated data in the field will come from at first. There are some huge challenges and obstacles in this field that deal both with ethics as well as logistics, so it could be interesting to see how those limit the growth of the field, but I think all the usual hotspots for entrepreneurship (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Houston/Dallas) are rapidly catching onto this trend in parallel with computational biology. At least that's why I'm applying!