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If your applications are successful, how are you going to get through the semester.

Well, I'm applying for the neuroscience program, so I suspect the interview time differs from program to program. The interview is from February 12-15.

I got an invitation from Baylor College of Medicine.

Hmm. I might inquire if my application got read. I did get an email not long ago from someone who was asking where mine was.

I smell a Vanderbilt NGP interview.

Awwww yeah. DRB? I'm applying to the DRB division for neurodevelopment.

Interview the first in sunny Tucson AZ at UArizona neuroscience!

The obvious follow-up question to this is "how skewed is it?"

Anyone know the admissions statistics for Harvard BBS?

Indeed. One of the things a lot of these graduate school websites sorely neglect is program fit.

rl23gb, your primary weakness is your Analytical score.

Everywhere I applied did that. Some of them also wanted transcripts sent directly from schools. I think it's for efficiency.

melissac042, would you just happen to know when Vanderbilt NGP's interview invitations are going to be sent out? I am also applying to the same program.

FINAL UPDATE because I finished all of my applications Undergrad Institution: Huge public, not tier 1 Major(s): Biology Overall GPA: 3.72 as of application time Position in Class: Top 15% Type of Student: Stateside female GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 163 (87%) V: 167 (97%) W: 4.0 (54%) Research Experience: 2 summers and a semester, one second-author publication pending, one poster presentation Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Golden Key Honor Society Applying to Where: All PhD Harvard BBS - DRB Columbia Neuro UCSD Neuro Iowa Neuro Arizona Neuro Vanderbilt NGP

UPDAAAAAAATE. Consider these relatively solid but I am retaking the GRE. Undergrad Institution: Public, mid-sized Major(s): Biology GPA in Major: 3.72 Overall GPA: 3.72 Position in Class: Top 15%. Not quite top 10%, as Phi Beta Kappa hasn't sent me an invitation. Type of Student: US citizen, female GRE Scores (revised/old version): Will update these scores as soon as I have results Q: 158 V: 167 (what?!) W: 4.0 (also what) B: N/A Research Experience: 2 summers elsewhere (Smithsonian, Woods Hole MBL), 1 semester home institution, 1 publication pending Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Departmental honors curriculum Applying to Where: This list is going to shrink by at least two. Harvard BBS Princeton Molecular Bio Columbia Neuroscience UCSD Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine Neuroscience U of Miami Neuroscience USC Neuroscience U of Arizona Neuroscience U of Oregon Neuroscience Texas A&M Biology (may hack this off) You know, I'm thinking of reconfiguring some of these. The only ones I'm definitely applying to are the Ivies, UCSD, BCM, and Arizona. The other ones I'm not sure.

Ignore this post, I deleted it.

Undergrad Institution: Public, mid-sized Major(s): Biology GPA in Major: 3.7 Overall GPA: 3.7 Position in Class: Top 15%. Not quite top 10%, as Phi Beta Kappa hasn't sent me an invitation. Type of Student: US citizen, female GRE Scores (revised/old version): Will update these scores as soon as I have results Q: Haven't taken it yet; scaled score 162 on most recent practice test V: See above W: N/A B: N/A Research Experience: 2 summers elsewhere (Smithsonian, Woods Hole MBL), 1 semester home institution, 1 publication pending Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Departmental honors curriculum Applying to Where: This list is going to shrink by at least two. Harvard BBS Princeton Molecular Bio Columbia Neuroscience UCSD Neuroscience NYU CNS Brandeis Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine Neuroscience U of Miami Neuroscience USC Neuroscience U of Arizona Neuroscience U of Oregon Neuroscience Texas A&M Biology Chicago Neurobiology

Perhaps I should have been more specific, floridabio. I know generally what is entailed in writing a grant. Hell, I have a relative in one of the NIH's institutes (not in my subfield) who is involved with grant stuff, and I've learned a lot about it from them. However, the process seems more straightforward for people who are already applying for funding and affiliated with a lab than those who are going to grad school and have no idea where they'll end up.

My ex went to Dartmouth for undergrad, so it's a drastically different situation than grad school, but how important is location to you? Because Dartmouth is in the middle of nowhere.

I have deleted their common characteristics. Also, nobody gives a crap about sports. How are the facilities at your old institution? People are going to look at you real wonky if you go to one institution for all three degrees.

I have a relative at the NIH (in an institute different from my subfield) and have contacted PIs in my relevant institutes as well. PI funding is going to get badly cut and PhD positions will drop, even intramurally.

Does a site such as this exist?

Research is actually, largely, the only factor I used in building my list of schools. I'm thankfully not concerned as much about convincing programs that I'm a good fit for them because of this. biotechie, is the fact that I only did two summers of research that don't TOTALLY dovetail with my research interests going to bite me in the ass?

One of the things that I'm really paranoid about is how much the fact that I don't go to a Top 20 university will factor into my admissions.

I'm paranoid about my credentials. If you could give me your assessment, that might help me narrow down my huge list of neuroscience PhD programs. School: Mid-sized state school. Not a U. of State or a State State. Top 200 according to the old ARWU, but not a top 100 (however, ranked somewhere between 68 and 85 in the United States). I applied there in part so I could commute. Major: Biology (departmental honors) GPA: 3.6 GREs: (practice scores, scaled with a previous year's score guide) 162 Q, 162 V, predicting a 5+ on A LoRs: excellent Research: 2 summers, Smithsonian and MBL Programs: U. of Chicago MIT Baylor College of Medicine U. of Arizona SUNY Buffalo Brown/NIH Brandeis UCSD Harvard WUSTL U. of Miami USC NYU-CNS Oregon Health Sciences University Columbia Oregon Texas A&M Clearly this is way too many programs to apply to.