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@Banksy Good luck this weekend at UCSF! Please share your experience afterwords. I'd like to know what to expect before I go next weekend.

First acceptance to UTSW!!! So excited.

At the airport after my first interveiw. Any one else interviewing at UTSW you are going to have a great time.

Official rejection from Stanford. Glad to finally know. Now just waiting for Berkeley to give me the official no.

Thanks! See you there

Anyone else going to UT southwestern next week? And what does smart casual mean?

Congratulations!

That's awesome congratulations.

I sent an email literally minutes after I received an invatation telling them that I had a conflict with the date and simply asked if their was a second weekend. After a reply from the graduate coordinator informing me i would have to come on an alternative weekend and she would let me know when the commitee had reached a decision I followed up with an email expressing my intrests in the program. Perhaps I should have included that in the first email

If i was actually a top choice for recruitment to UW-madison they would have made every effort to be accommodating. When duke called to invite me to interview I was told they would bring me on any weekend that was convient for me if I could not make the scheduled weekend. Since they showed so much interest I would be foolish to ask them to reschedule after they have already booked tickets for me. I suppose Its simply part of the process but I was hoping to avoid choosing between programs before I witnessed them first hand.

After consulting with my boss and other professors it seems asking me to buy my own plane ticket was a nice way of saying thanks but no thanks and I shouldn't waste my time. So it seems I must decline my invitation from UW-madison.

Did you get a call/email from stanford or just a letter in the mail?

Just assuming I suspect we will know for sure by the end of the week.

Good question. Going to need to sleep on this one.

Thanks. I suppose until they send me any specifics I still have time to change my mind.

What if they are my third choice? If it was you would you go?

I have mixed feelings about it. I want to have options and preferably multiple acceptance offers to choose from. If I got rejected post interview from the five schools I already have interviews at and I didn't go to the alternate weekend at madison I think I would regret it.

They are gonna cover hotel/food. Just got to find a way to get there.

UW-Madison just emailed me back. They are willing to schedule me for an alternative weekend so long as I am willing to pay for my own airline tickets. Testing my commitment perhaps? It's worth the price for me as long as they do not try to schedule me for another weekend I already have booked.

I made it clear that I had already booked plane tickets and agreed to an interveiw elsewhere before I ever received their invatation

Anyone else have a school blow them off after they told them they had a date conflict? I'm starting to think not going to the interveiw weekend for UW-Madison= no interview.

Anyone Who has already been to interveiw(s) want to share any advice? Typical questions to ask/ what you will be asked? Hardest question you were asked?

So according to the results page UC Berkeley has finally started sending official rejections for the biophysics program BUT there was also one invatation today. So just when I had accepted my fate I find myself frantically checking my email. Just tell me already!!!!! After double checking the interveiw invitee was an international student. Back to reality

I miss being productive in Lab. Probably could have submitted my manuscript by now if I hadn't let myself get so distracted.

I have a similar GPA, and decent research experience; your GRE scores blow mine out of the water. Quite impressive.