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42 minutes ago, EveryDay said:
I personally think so, for sure. The fact that they sent stuff in mid-December and no one has heard back makes me think they are done.
But I'm still holding on to false hope.
Well someone just posted a BCS invite on the survey, keeping my hope alive for another month and a half...
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4 minutes ago, neuro_queen said:
This may have been asked already, sorry! However, for those who have been invited for interviews have you noticed your application status change online? Two of my applications still only say "submitted" and it is making me feel like they dismissed my application immediately. Thanks.
Out of the six interviews I got, none of them have updated my status on the application form.
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8 minutes ago, nebulasector7 said:
I'm declining my Minnesota invite so hopefully more invites will go out!
Also, did stanford say when their interview weekend is?
Stanford's website says 3/2 - 3/6
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20 minutes ago, Purkinje said:
I wonder if MIT BCS is done. Anyone have any insight?
I really hope not.
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1 hour ago, Fleet Fox said:
Hey peeps -- especially those of you interviewing at penn
In their email, note that they say "Pack warm clothes: hats, gloves, coats, warm boots will be needed since you'll be walking outside across campus for interviews. Dress is casual--no suits expected or required."
I found that kind of odd and I got in touch with someone in admissions. This person said "As for your dress – lots of people end up in suits anyway... We just like to make it clear that if people are choosing warmth/comfort over business attire it is fine."
Just wanted to let people know (it seems to me at least) that they aren't suggesting jeans and a sweater, rather pointing out that it's silly to wear only a suit and dress shoes if it's 20° with 6 inches of snow on the ground.
Thanks! I was wondering about that.
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16 minutes ago, bdnf_13.1 said:
NYU people- are you all hearing from the Neural Science or Neuroscience and Physiology program?
They're combined programs now and the interviews are combined. I know that the adcom is combined as well. For what it's worth though, I heard from Neural Science.
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2 hours ago, EveryDay said:
That's what's confusing me as well. I'm secretly hoping that my POI just didn't call me and is waiting for the official email to go out in January. In reality, though, my hopes have gone down to almost 0.
I just want them to send me a rejection email so I can stop thinking about it.
Congrats to everyone that got an interview.
Well BCS seems different in the sense that you had to specify readers for your application, rather than it being just a straight up adcom. It's possible that readers have until January to look them over but some have done so earlier than others. That's my theory for why I haven't heard yet...the first stage is denial.
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So I'm thinking I'm going to email a program to ask about my application status (this program's interview would conflict with one that I was just offered, but I'd rather attend this program's). At a conference I had a conversation with a professor on the adcom and she seemed very excited about me applying there (her former adviser is my current PI). Is it too annoying to email this professor instead of the general "info" email that's listed on the program's website?
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So I'm thinking I'm going to email a program to ask about my application status (this program's interview would conflict with one that I was just offered, but I'd rather attend this program's). At a conference I had a conversation with a professor on the adcom and she seemed very excited about me applying there (her former adviser is my current PI). Is it too annoying to email this professor instead of the general "info" email that's listed on the program's website?
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6 minutes ago, Neurolit said:
Got an email from Columbia tonight. Happy and relieved.
Congrats! Same here -- very relieved. The results page has been giving me a heart attack lately. I think I need to stop checking it every 3 minutes...
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1 minute ago, NeuroSC said:
Congrats all on Uchicago Neuro interview. I got one too and my email says its 5-8 feb. (Sorry the quote is not working in my phone)
Was your email also sent by a POI, or was it an official invite?
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Penn NGG is 1/15 and 2/26. I don't know for sure, but it seems like they've sent out all of their interviews.
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Can someone tell me when the Princeton interviews are? Is there only one date?
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Just now, brainsandeggs said:
Email from U Chicago Neurobiology faculty member today letting me know I got an interview! Huzzah!
Was it an official invite or an email from a POI?
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So far I've only heard one person say they've heard from University of Washington. Anyone else hear from them?
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37 minutes ago, kokobanana said:
woah, that's some serious sleuthing.. I'm impressed!
I appreciate it. I was just trying to find out when their interview weekend was and I stumbled on that as well.
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Harvard adcom is meeting today at noon (according to their website's calendar), so I'm assuming they'll be sent out later this week.
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29 minutes ago, StrongTackleBacarySagna said:
Did any of you post that Princeton invite by any chance? If so, did you already submit your fall semester grades?
I'm also curious about this Princeton posting. I'll just keep telling myself it's someone trolling...
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10 hours ago, PlanB said:
http://weill.cornell.edu/news/publications/pdf/factsheet/WCMC_fact_sheet_2010.pdf
The average science GPA of entering PhD students at Cornell is 3.7. Fact.
I agree that there are plenty of smart people that do not necessarily have high grades. Not trying to put down applicants here, however, again, just being objective.
I am a scientist. I liked data. Not opinions.
And stop rating my posts negatively.
So you're making absolute claims based off the average of one arbitrarily chosen variable to a complex process. That's pretty much the definition of being a crappy scientist. Hopefully you'll learn this stuff in grad school...
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10 hours ago, PlanB said:
Your GPA is not high enough for duke, Princeton, yale, tri-state or cornell. THe average student admitted to those programs is like a 3.75+. A higher GRE score, however, may help you out in the process. Mount sinai will most likely come through.
Aren't you applying to PhD programs? Shouldn't you know that correlation does not imply causation? It seems very likely that the most qualified applicants (great research experience/LORs etc.) also happen to have higher GPAs and GREs on average. You know absolutely nothing about those distributions and what adcoms are actually looking for, yet you still choose to discourage someone whose GPA isn't half bad -- you should stop doing that.
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40 minutes ago, charles14 said:
Hey so I heard Harvard BBS and PiN sends out interview requests on the 17th/18th of Dec.
Where'd you hear that about PiN?
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unfortunately, GPA and GRE happen to matter a lot when it comes to the very top tier schools (HMS, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Rockefeller, UCSF, etc). Someone I know had a decent GPA (3.5 I think) and decent GRE scores, worked for 7 or so years as a tech and published three first author pubs (all impact factor >10), and was a co-author on several Nature papers. Due to his GPA he was outright rejected from the top-tier schools and was offered spots and the mid/upper tier ones
I'm sorry for calling you out, but this is total garbage. This seems extremely unlikely and I have not heard similar experiences at all. I know several people who got accepted to the schools you mentioned (particularly Harvard and MIT) with subpar GREs on math and verbal (<65%) or subpar GPAs (<3.2). I've also spoken with adcom members at these schools who have reiterated the same things. There are several things that could have gone wrong with your friend's application process and there's obviously no way to know that it was his GPA. The things that differentiate highly qualified applicants almost always has to do with how you fit with that particular university and if they just generally like you at the interviews. You could look like the second coming of jesus on paper, but if you seem like a prick at the interview then you're not going to get in.
I was originally very discouraged when I first started reading through gradcafe, but the more I learned the more I realized that this forum is no where near a fair representation of the applicant pool and that a lot of people on here actually have no idea what they're talking about. So, for those who feel discouraged, don't listen to junk like this and get back to working on your application, as I will right now.
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Undergrad Institution: Mid-tier state school
Major(s): Neuroscience
Minor(s): Chemistry
GPA in Major: 3.7
Overall GPA: 3.6
Position in Class: Unknown
Type of Student: Domestic white male
GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 85%
V: 79%
W: 80%
Research Experience: 3 separate research experiences as an undergrad. One clinical, one in cognitive neuroscience, and one in computational vision science with a well known PI. Since then, I'm in my second year as an RA in a famous computational vision science lab and have a co-first authored paper submitted to a top journal, a middle author paper being prepared, and middle author on an SfN poster. I'll have great recommendations from all four PIs.
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's list most semesters, awarded a fellowship in integrative neuroscience
Special Bonus Points: Obviously well connected in my current home university (a top choice). My current PI is one of the most influential people in my field. Not sure if this counts for bonus points, but I've pretty much narrowed down my interests to computational vision science, and I'm already very familiar with the field.
Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: My undergrad program did not focus on anything quantitative, so my formal background in math is unimpressive even though it's one of my strengths.
Applying to Where:Neuroscience/neurobiology programs for the schools below, roughly in order of preference:
Columbia
MIT
NYU - CNS
Stanford
University of Washington
UT Austin
UCSD
Princeton
Duke
University of Chicago
Harvard
UC Berkeley
U Penn
I have no idea how competitive of an applicant I am or whether I stand a chance of getting into the top tier : /
2016 Neuroscience Ph.D. Applicant Thread People Thing
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I work in computational neuroscience in NYC, and, while I think it would be possible to collaborate with NYU or Columbia if you really put in the effort, I don't think it's something that happens all too often. In fact, I didn't even realize there were computational neuroscientists at Weill Cornell, but that could just be my ignorance.