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DId anyone who interviewed at MIT BE hear back yet? Just curious if any of you will be joining us!
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23 hours ago, Santos said:
Received email from JHU that I am on alternate list. I am not sure how many they kept on the alternate list and what is my chance of getting accepted. Thanks in advance for your response.
In 2014 they went deep into their wait list. It all depends on how many accept their offer.
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5 hours ago, LlamaNirvana said:
Hi lurker here,
How much would it hurt my chances if I can attend the main interview day for Columbia but not the brunch the subsequent day? Thanks!
I had to do that as I had to catch a plane cross country for a previously scheduled interview. They were very understanding and I was accepted immediately after the interview.
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18 hours ago, 2yuexue said:
Anyone know how Columbia handles the date conflict for their interview weekend? On the email, it says if you do have conflict let them know and they will try to arrange a different date. But I don't see any where that they have another interview weekend.
My year they were extremely flexible They let me come in a day early and fly out a day early to meet a committment at another school.
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13 hours ago, microbiologynerd said:
FYI everyone got confirmation from the MIT BE office that they are still in the process of sending out interviews!
You are correct! Someone just posted on results that they received an invite today. Good luck!
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8 hours ago, aegis921 said:
Ah! I had pretty much resigned to my fate of being rejected from the BE department. I feel better about my applications to other MIT programs, but some closure would be nice!
Hmm, that's odd...I guess time will tell. I hope it is true, but that did not happen my year.
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25 minutes ago, Jelly said:
It looks updated now, as it shows arrival dates for the day before the interview dates. I'm guessing that we make travel arrangments ourselves, as there is a reimbursement form on the website for after we interview.
@tuckbroWhen you interviewed, did you arrive the day before the two interview dates? And did you stay for both days or just one? Thanks! Look forward to seeing some of you guys there!
Things were pretty messed up my year and some of us were contacted while Enroute to meet with people on travel day I barely made mine, some people were in the air and missed them. The intent was for us to travel get settled have dinner with grad students and interview the next day. It didn't work out that way for some of us! I assumed certain professors suddenly couldn't meet on the scheduled day .
Yes I did stay for the entire program.
I only cut one interview program short, Columbia, because I had to fly cross country and left a few hours earlyto make my flight.
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I brought two outfits:
Dress grey pants, striped button down and tie (although I pocketed in most of the time)
Dressy khakis, blue botton down
Obviously a nice belt and Sperrys that were not worn out.
I brought a sweater but the weather was good so didn't end up wearing it. I also brought a blue blazer but didnt wear i unless I saw others wearing them - some of my schools were more formal.
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21 hours ago, Edotdl said:
Just got interview from JHU BME via email. Dates are 2/4-5 and 2/18-19.
My year, 2014 this is what happened:
You were not accepted if you could not make the interview.
They initially accepted only first choices for each lab and put the other interviewees on an alternate list - presumably in some kind of order. If offers were not accepted they went to the list. I recieved an email that I was an alternate, but expected to be admittted and a few weeks later I was.
That year they went very deep into their alternate list as many offers were declined.
I think it was handled very differently the next year and they accepted way more poeple up front, though so not sure if that will hold true for you guys.
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2 hours ago, biotechie said:
I can confirm all of this is true, especially the jeans thing. Colored pants are okay. Khakis are okay. A business suit or something similar is okay. Jeans are NOT okay. I know this from experience watching two years of students come in after me. We as current students are asked not to wear jeans when we help with interviews, so I'll also be dressed nicely when I help at interviews at my school.
For interview day, you should be pushing more towards business formal, but not quite there. I talk a lot about it in that blog post I keep posting. You have some room to throw your own style into it, and there are interviews that aim more toward business casual the whole time rather than business formal. They're not judging you on your style, and jeans are generally okay for every day once you get to grad school, but they really do want to see that you are putting in the effort. The fact that you care about your interview enough to dress up appropriately does say a lot about you and how serious you are about graduate school and the program, but it really is also important that your outfit be "you." You can probably get away with jeans for a grad student outing where there won't be faculty, but remember, those students are also working with the adcom.
Keep what you carry around on interview day to a minimum; they all seem to do a good job of giving you lots of snacks and water to keep you going during the day. I got nice little laptop bags at my interviews, and I still use one of them. The swag is because on interview day, they're trying to recruit you as much as they're interviewing you.
Relax. Stop stressing. It will be okay. Interviews are actually VERY fun.
I completely agree.
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1 hour ago, Dr_Patel said:1 hour ago, Dr_Patel said:
Congratulations to everyone who got interviews at JHU. I received one as well. Potentially a very, very stupid question, but how do the travel arrangements work. Should I buy a plane ticket today, book hotels, etc. right now and then save all the receipts for reimbursements later? Or will JHU take care of things like the hotel on their end?
I drove so didn't need airfare, but the hotel was paid upfront. They took forever to reimburse me though! Good luck everyone!
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This week? If so there is really no snow in the forecast. I would check a weather app. Wear whatever you planned, but with an overcoat, gloves and hat. If you find weather calls for snow or shush you can bring some boots, but you probably won't be walking the streets much.
I would not consider jeans business casual.
Good luck !
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On December 18, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Extra Espresso said:
Other BME/BioE applicants, how screwed am I if I accidentally messed up program names in my SOP? I have all of the University XXX and YYYs straight, but I put BioE for some BME programs and vice versa, and I wasn't always consistent throughout the SOP. I just noticed that there are a few where I would get the program right the first time I mentioned it but wrong the second time and vice versa. Thoughts?
I think they are more focused on your experience and qualifications than a mistake, and a pretty common one at that! Don't worry you will have great options!
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9 minutes ago, yonglin489 said:
Anybody think after this week it will be all rejection for those you have not heard from??.....
I suggest looking at the results page and you can see when invites have gone out in the past for your schools.
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2 minutes ago, Extra Espresso said:
Thank you!! I am so excited about MIT's program, so I really want to make the interview work. That makes me feel better that there was a small group on a different weekend - hopefully it won't affect my chances!
If you can shuffle things to make it, I would. Not sure it would affect your chances, I would hope not, but I think you will miss out on a lot of cohort bonding and not sure they will do the psoter presentations with the smaller group.
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4 minutes ago, Extra Espresso said:
I didn't even see this thread- I've been posting in the other BME thread floating around here! I got an interview for MIT's BE program - so excited!! I'm really nervous because I have to ask for an alternate weekend. @tuckbro, do you know anything about alternate interview weekends at MIT?
Congrats! I was able to go the main weekend along with most of the invitees. I do know there was a small group that went on a different weekend.
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3 minutes ago, microbiologynerd said:
Tuckbro- did you apply/get in last year? I did as well although I chose to go somewhere else at the end haha.
Last year I thought I heard some people receive interview requests ~Jan 3rd-4th, then others (including myself) receive requests Jan 8th-9th? I think the results search in gradcafe also shows this. Do you remember hearing this at interviews?
I'm a second year. We all got ours simultaneously in 2014. I would call as things change from year to year sometimes.
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My year everyone got their invites simultaneously and only one group were sent. You can call of course and ask.
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12 minutes ago, pali123 said:
I did not get an email so I am assuming I was rejected. They do not have other interview invites throughout the month correct?
I am so sorry to hear you did not get an invite, but if you didn't it means that your interests do not match up with their current lab openings and you will find the right fit for you, do not worry!
To my knowledge, if you did not get an invite then you will not be accepted. They accept the majority of those whom they invite and have a very high offer acceptance rate. I cannot imagine they would accept someone they had not interviewed, unfortunately.
They send out their rejections as soon as they hear back from those who were invited, presumably in case they feel they need to invite more because people have declined to interview, but that would be surprising I think. They usually give the invitees two weeks or so to accept or decline the interview and if they have enough people, then they send out the rejections.
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Looks like MIT BE invites went out last night. I see two people posted on the results page this morning. Let me know if anyone here got one!
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You guys should really use the Resluts Search function, it will show you that for Caltech Biology, Interviews went out Dec 22nd execpt for a few stragglers who we sent invites after people declined.
There used to be a tab at the top of the page, not sure how to get there directly, but if you google " Thegradcafe Results", you will get the page. It shows you results from the last five years or so (for those who entered results that is). You can see who is getting notified now or do a search by school and program and see what has happened in the past.
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Looking at the results page and searching for that program, it looks like last year the acceptances all went out on Feb 2nd. I don't see any interviews listed.
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Just now, nallapar said:
Good to know
If you don't mind me asking, are you a current PhD student? If yes, where?
Yes, I am a second year at MIT BE.
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