ragumar13

Guess I never got to posting my stuff. Here's my wrap-up anyway. Undergrad: Top 10 school (USNWR) Majors: Biology, Music Minor: Chemistry GPA in Biology: ~3.1 (last 2 yrs was >3.5) Overall GPA: ~3.2 (last 2 yrs was >3.5) GRE percent: Q/V in the 90s, W/Bio in the 70s Research Exp: Pretty much all over Biology, looking to focus now on what I did in the main lab I worked in as an undergrad. Got BS a couple of years ago, have had a bunch of science jobs in all different fields since. Have a mid-authorship in a mid-tier journal, couple conference talks, etc. Misc: I thought my application was strong except for the very bad GPA. Looking back I think the most important thing to have in the apps is momentum, and by that I mean having a serious desire to go to graduate school beyond just going through the motions as an undergrad. Still Waiting: Harvard OEB, UT-Austin PB Rejected: No interview: UNC-CH BBSP, NYU Biology, Rice BCB Declined interview: UVM CMB, NCSU Genetics, NCSU Biochem Post-interview: CSHL-WSBS Waitlisted: Brown MCB Accepted: UT-Austin ICMB, Yale BBS, Dartmouth MCB, UMD-CP BISI, UMass-Amherst MCB, UMass-Amherst PB Heading to Yale!

got the official NYU Biology rejection for PhD by way of an acceptance for the unfunded MS, lol no thanks

ditto what synbio1 said

UT-Austin CMB acceptance! looks like I'm going to grad school after all!

interview invite from NC State Biochemistry! not that it's been mentioned here...

NYT just did a "36 hours" piece in Durham http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/travel/36-hours-in-durham-nc.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I'm doing both of their 2nd weekends, Brown is Feb 8-9 and Yale is Feb 14-17. Pretty pumped for my insane 8-week schedule

@flat_rhino it was via email btw have fun touring UNC, people that made it. Their Genome Sciences building was finished last August. It has an Ikea-like vibe to it (in a good way) with a Starbucks on the ground floor and a glowing double helix staircase running up the middle. Weather's great here too.

yeah. there were "1,200 applications for 80 slots"

UNC's dropping bombs. I hated those tarholes anyway

Brown (CMB): 2/1-2/2, 2/8-2/9 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Watson School of Biological Sciences: 1/30-2/3 Columbia (Pathobiology & Molecular Medicine): 2/15-2/17 Dartmouth (MCB): 2/15-2/16, 2/22-2/23 Emory University (Neuro): 1/31-2/2 & 2/14-2/16 NYU Sackler (Microbiology): 3/7-3/8 Northwestern (DGP): January 24 - 26 or February 7 - 9 or February 21 - 23 North Carolina State (Genetics): 2/10-2/12 Stanford (Biology): 2/27-3/3 UCSF BMS: 1/24-1/26 OR 2/7-2/9 UCSC PBSE/BME: 1/24-1/26 UF (IDP): 1/27-29 and 2/24-26 U Maryland (BISI-MOCB): 2/7-2/9, 2/28-3/2 U Mass Amherst (MCB): 2/22-2/23 U Mass Amherst (Plant): 3/8-3/9 U Mass Med (Biomedical/Neuroscience): 1/31-2/2 and 2/14-2/16 U Chicago (Biomedical): 2/21-2/23 U of Colorado, Denver (Basic Sciences): 1/31-2/2 or 2/21-2/23 UT Houston (GSBS): 1/31-2/3 or 2/21-2/24 U of Iowa (Molecular and Cellular Biology) 1/24-1/26 and 2/21-2/23 U Texas Austin (CMB): 1/24-1/25, 2/14-2/15 U Vermont (CMB): 2/1-2/2, 2/22-2/23, 3/15-3/16 Washington University in St. Louis (Biochem): 1/25, 2/8 WashU (Devo, Stem Bio): 2/8, 2/22 WashU (Evo, Eco, Pop): 2/22 WashU (Human Gen): 1/11, 2/8 WashU (Immunology): 1/18, 1/22 WashU (MCB): 1/11, 2/1, 2/15 WashU (Microbiology): 1/25 WashU (Neuro): 1/18, 2/1 WUSTL (Plant): 2/1, 2/15 University of Wisconsin-Madison (Entomology): 2/3-2/5 Yale (BBS-MCGD): 2/14-2/16

anybody heard from Rice Biochemistry? WashU Biology?