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I got rejected from all universities my first time around (although I did manage to land an interview) in 2013. I was pretty beat up about it. I spent the next year doing research, contacting professors and honing my application a little. It paid off - I was admitted into an excellent program a few months ago. Honestly, my failure the first time can be attributed to my cluelessness about what Phd programs were looking for - I treated it as though it were a more rigorous version of the undergrad application process (which is rather more like what applying to med school is like).

Of Indian descent, born and raised in the United Arab Emirates.

Hey guys, I'm enrolling as a grad student this fall in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. Nice to meet yall. Do you guys intend to live on or off-campus?

Anybody planning on going to U Chicago? Thaz where I'm headed.

Hell to the YEAH. Accepted into U Chicago Ecology and Evolution! Will be attending.

Hey Monochrome Spring, I'm applying to Michigan State EEBB/Zoology and will be interviewing there in less than two weeks! The departmental structure of MSU's evolution/ecology program is certainly curious. I can't really tell if my graduate school peers would be Zoology students or EEBB students - or both!

Wohooooo! Just got an interview invite from the University of Chicago Committee of Evolutionary Bio!!

If you are applying to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-type programs (which seemed like it might be, judging from your listed program), then you almost certainly would receive full funding (in the form of teaching or research assistantships) for a certain number of years. I'm an international student and the programs I'm interviewing with all offer me 5 years guaranteed funding.

Ugh, I was told I wasn't eligible for those because I'm not a US citizen or permanent resident. Ughhh

No MIT or Stanford invite here either. I did, however, get an interview offer fom MSU EEBB. So that made me happy - I was beginning to fear complete annihilation this cycle.

Ugh, I'm going to explode if I have to wait for interviews any longer.

I was interviewed by MIT last year (I was rejected and am re-applying) and my invite came in on the 8th of Jan via e-mail. I'm fairly certain that we'll hear back this week. From what I remember from the 2013 application cycle, Stanford sent out invites the same week, and proceeded to send out a wave of snail-mail rejections to the remaining candidates in late January.

From what I can tell, most of them start getting back to us in February. Ugh.

Well - is it possible? I've worked very hard in the lab that I'm currently in (I have somewhere in the range of 1.5-2 years of experience in multiple labs), but I probably wouldn't land a publication within the next several months. My project turned out to be a great deal more challenging (read: soul crushing) than my faculty and graduate student advisors anticipated. Has anybody here had success in the graduate school application process without any publications?

I'm broadly interested in molecular evolution and phylogenetics - primarily among vertebrates. You're interested in plant ecology, I take it? If we're lucky, perhaps we shall meet at the MSU interview, haha.

Attempting to get into an EEB program somewhere! This is my second attempt. I was interviewed and rejected by a very top-tier cell and molecular bio program (US News consistently ranks it as one the top 3 unis in the field, if that means anything) last year, but ended up getting round-the-board rejections otherwise. Hopefully, I'll have better luck this time around! I have to be honest, looking at some of the competition here is mildly terrifying. But I do imagine that the average gradcafe poster sits comfortably in the upper quartile of the applicant pool. Or, at least, that's what I tell myself so I can sleep a little easier at night. Undergrad Institution: Large, reasonably well-reputed public university Major(s): Cell and Molecular Biology Minor(s): None GPA in Major: Not really displayed on my transcripts - I'm guessing around 3.9 as well Overall GPA: 3.94 Position in Class: Unknown Type of Student: International, male GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 84% V: 96% W: 78% Research Experience: 2.5 years of research in 4 different labs - 3 of them had an evolutionary focus, the fourth was a plant molecular biology lab. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Phi beta kappa, On honor roll every sem, got a University undergrad fellowship Pertinent Activities or Jobs: I was an undergrad TA in a lab class. I was a volunteer docent in a Natural History Museum Special Bonus Points: I've had positive responses from at least one POI at each of the colleges I'm applying to. Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I run a large educational website on evolution that seems to be generally appreciated and admired by the professors I've shown it to. Applying to Where: U of Arizona Brown Uni of Chicago Michigan State U Stony Brook MIT Harvard Stanford

Does anybody know if all of the MIT Bio acceptances have already been sent out? I interviewed 3 weeks ago and have yet to hear back.

Well, I got invited to interview at MIT today. I got rejected by Washington University in St. Louis.