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Well, it appears that neither Weill nor Columbia liked me very much. The decision has been made: I'll be starting at Gerstner Sloan-Kettering in July!

Cornell IMP post interview rejection. Disappointing but not entirely unexpected. Gerstner Sloan-Kettering it is!

Post interview rejection from Columbia Pathobiology. Meh.

I'm Canadian, and so I'm treated like any other international applicant, though the fact that I went to school here might make a difference. I have similar numbers to you, but less research and no publications. As you can see from my sig, I got interviewed at 4 good programs, and have already been accepted to Sloan-Kettering. Just make sure you have good LOR and a strong personal statement and you should be OK. Also, some state/public schools are mandated to accept more Americans, so keep that in mind.

Honestly it comes down to the class structure. The people I'd most want to rotate/work with would be at SKI anyways, so I don't miss out on professors at Weill, Rockefeller or HSS, so that doesn't really matter. I don't care a whole lot about the larger university community that's available at Weill, and I actually like the idea of being a tight knit cohort. Working as a technician right now at CUMC, I see the rotation students constantly running in and out of lab in order to be in class and do homework. That is not something that I'd want to do, and the GSK program where rotations and classes are separate avoids it. Also, I'm pretty sure the ACE for GSK is your thesis presentation, as opposed to something unrelated. TLDR: Research is the same. Stipend is the same. Housing is the same. Classes and rotations are separate at GSK.

Still waiting on offers from Weill and Columbia, but I've already had an acceptance at Sloan-Kettering for about a month now. Even if I get into both Weill and Columbia, I'll likely be going to GSK. Edit: I suppose I'm also waiting on Einstein, but I'm declining it should I get it.

I applied to Pathobiology/Molecular Medicine. Still nothing and it's next week. Same story about Weill Cornell IMP. If I hear nothing from either by the end of the work day today, I'll follow up by e-mail.

I literally found out this morning who I was interviewing with about 2 hours later. Just ask them about their own stuff and they'll talk for the entire time. Edit: spelling.

Sloan-Kettering!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!!

Wouldn't sweat it. Relax.

Random question - anyone know how grad schools feel about deferral requests?

Their first interview weekend is actually next week. Edit: Their = Einstein

You might want to ask about health insurance and grad student housing. $26K is pretty good outside of NYC.

Columbia is closed - yay paid vacation! I assume the other private ones are too.

I personally applied to the Biomedical programs at CUMC, but the other day at Sloan-Kettering I talked to a few people who said they had invites to Biological Sciences. I think their (first?) interviews are in the next couple of weeks