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Congrats!!! BBS is a terrific place to do research! I know some ppl there and they r all telents and hard-core!

Gosh~ it looks like we have fairly huge overlaps between the programs we are applying, and your stats are much much BETTER than mine. My research interests lies in computational method developement for population genomics. Could you share what your interests are? And where did you visit? Thanks and good luck!

Ya... I agree with you totally. Though it is very difficult to let myself not thinking/worrying about the applications. Time of sending out interview invitations varies from school to school and also from program to program for sure. By far I only heard one of the programs I applied sent part of their invitations and still working on applicaition review. I am keeping my fingers crossed. As time close to Feb, I expect there should be more messages sending out form schools/programs, either for domestic or for international students. Wish you best luck with your applications.

I believe you are an extremely strong applicant. Great stats and research experiences. A bit glad I are not applying to the programs you mentioned. cheers,

Thanks! I am trying to relax myself, and enjoy my holidays. Happy holidays and wish we all hear good news soon after admission committees back to work NEXT year!

Thanks, gremot. My main worries are lacking of strong bio background and the two unknown LORs. Though these two are out of my hands at this moment. And yes, I also heard the committees usually review international applications later. But still a bit nervous. Cheers.

Hi everyone, I have been watching this thread since it started, but am too shy to post my stats. The past few days have been very tough 'cuz I have seen many of you getting invites/acceptances. Though my programs are not quite same as yours. I am hoping ppl applying to the same/similar programs would be willing to share news as well as comments to my applications. Research interests: Computational bio, esp in population genetics and human evolution. International applicant; currently work as a research associate in a research institute in the States Degrees: BS in CS(GPA: 3.6) and 1st MS in EE(GPA: 3.8) from my country 2nd MS in Computational Bio (GPA: 3.3) from a US-university Papers: One ISMB poster (2nd author) One IEEE conf full-paper (1st author, but not in Bio) One technical report of national science foundation in my country(1st author, awarded, and is related to Bio) One MS thesis in EE (not going to publish due to a stupid reason, sigh....) Two papers in Bio are expected to be submitted soon.... though I believe they will not be accepted before the application results are out. So they would not be that helpful I guess. LOR: well, this part of my application is tricky. only know one of them is excellent. The other two are unknown. could be ranged from fairly good to neutral I think. Applying to: Harvard(OEB) Berkeley(IB) UChicago(Molecular Biosciences) Cornell(Tri-I Comp Bio Med) Upenn(GCB) UCLA(Bioinfo) UMich(Bioinfo) UCI(MCSB) UA(EEB) Any comments are welcome! Thanks.