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I'm moving to Denver too, and I started looking now but all the places are usually only available for a week before they are leased it seems. So I'm just going to fly out in late May/early June to find a place and hopefully move in June/July.

Oh no! Don't buy so much coffee, better to just get the beans fresh weekly

Glad other people are experiencing this haha. I accepted via email, asked if there was anything else I needed to do and they told me not until I receive a packet later in the spring from the grad school when I would pay my deposit and that stuff. It just seems weird to accept over email and now I'm just waiting and waiting and yeah. Even though they told me there was nothing else I needed to do or fill out.

Yeah we were all on the same interview weekend Elliot haha

Neuroscience grad program!

Decision hashtag made

Well you are accepted to a different university in that city. I'll let you figure out which one that is hehehe

Not really from the results page, but I was at an interview and overnight UCSD sent out rejections. (at like 2am, what???) The next morning, about 4 or 5 of us just went around the table high-fiving and conratulating each other for our successful rejections

fully, plus an additional fellowship

Once I make it official, I will post it. I made my decision over the weekend, but I want to sit on it a few days to make sure it's what I really want. But it's looking like it is. I've been reading papers from the PIs and thinking about living and working in that city and just getting more excited!

Rejected from UCLA. Woohoo! I've heard back from all my programs. Making my decision official Thursday.

When I visited the school I think I'm going to accept, the first place they took me was a coffee shop that was also a bike shop that also had about 15 beers on tap plus another 50 or so bottled. Yesssssss

1. Research fit 2. Research fit, like 4-5 faculty, I'd love to work with plus an additional 4 or 5 doing research in a similar area that would complement what I want to do extremely well 3. They really want me to come to their program, or at least it appears that way 4. Seriously the fit is amazing. It's not the "best" or most "prestigious" school I've gotten in to, but y'know I'll be happier doing research there, if I decided to go -- which it's looking like I will -- and I think the quality of the work I'll be doing will be great and I can do more and go just as far if not farther and have the most fun at this school than any of the others I got in to. 5. ALL the students I met were SUPER happy and relaxed and not stressed. Goodbye East Coast! 6. Didn't factor into my decision making, but it's also my favorite of all the cities I visited.

RE: UCLA, I interviewed Feb 8-10, they told us we'd all hear back within 2-3 weeks; today is 21 days later, still nothing. BUT.. I do know a handful of people got acceptances from that weekend on Friday Feb 20, and it sounds like some people heard back quickly from the 20-22 weekend too. They said they'd be accepting 60-70%, so I can't imagine they're done sending out acceptances yet. RE: UT Austin It looks like admissions decisions are available online on the application site with a letter from the dean, but no email or call from the program as of yet.

I got in a week after my interview (1/16) but I have since turned them down. But I applied directly to the NGP and interviewed with the NGP admissions committee.

I would say choose the program where you feel the most comfortable and who's research you like the most. Both schools are incredibly well regarded, and while I don't know too much about Yale, I do know that Vanderbilt is doing some of the best biomedical research in the country. I worked in the biology department at Vanderbilt this past summer, and it was incredibly relaxed and no one seemed to be under too much stress. And when you're looking for jobs down the line, it's the work that you do, not that your mentor does, that gets you that job.

Who's research do you prefer?

agalaapple, please don't take what I said to mean that I was suggesting you seek medication. Just honestly talking to someone helps tremendously. They don't even have to be a professional. Those are just a lot of strong feelings to hold onto on your own. Even venting will help.

Yeah soon is totally relative. I've had soon mean the next day or soon mean I still haven't heard back nearly 3 weeks later. Edit: sorry that probably doesn't help, but we're all in the same boat... I'm expecting to hear from my two top programs this week and have been checking my email constantly.

I second what Aenrichus said. And would add that it may help to go see a counselor or someone along those lines.

They had one weekend as far as I know, it was canceled due to snow and they sent out emails to reschedule in a Skype interview.

Anyone else interview at UCLA a week ago and is anxiously awaiting to hear back?

Hell if anything, I felt young at all these interviews.

After being on a bunch of interviews, one thing I learned that I wasn't necessarily aware of before was that the vast majority of the people were not in their last year as undergraduates. Most people interviewing had worked usually 2 or more years in a lab as a lab tech prior to this application season. I'm fortunate to have been accepted to places, but if I had not, I believe my plan would have been to reach out to the PIs who conducted research I was interested in and see if I could work in their lab as a tech to gain more experience in the field (and also another reference letter too). EDIT: For example, when I visited UVA, I remember that of the 15 of us there interviewing, only 3 of us were still completing our undergraduate degree. Some people had even worked in labs for as many as 5 years prior to this application cycle.