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I applied to a PhD program in Cell & Molecular Biology. As I said in the title, I got an invitation to a "Recruitment Visit" and interview weekend. This is obviously great news, but it doesn't mean I will get an actual acceptance offer. Does anyone know roughly what my odds are?

I applied to the five different grad programs at UT Austin with the hopes of increasing my odds and choices if I don't get my first pick. I finished the application and got professors to submit letters of recommendation for all five programs. The Computer Science department emailed me and said that I have to do a separate application through a different computer system. I don't mind except I don't want to have to bug professors to do this again. This seems silly. The references were already submitted for this program. Secondly, when I email the admissions coordinator I get an out of office auto reply. The deadline is coming up... Should I just bug my professors to resubmit? I hate to do that, it seems completely unnecessary, but I don't see what other choice I have.

I am applying to the "Cell and Molecular Biology" and the "Microbiology" program. I'm using this statement of purpose for both. Please review and provide feedback. Thanks!

Thank you again peachypie. I just completed a major rewrite. I am going to post in a new thread. I would love your feedback if you have time. If not, thanks for the feedback thus far!

Bleeding edge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_edge_technology It's like a more extreme version of cutting edge. It's "bleeding" because it often hurts. There is risk and danger from being on the bleeding edge. "sci-ence": Good catch. This is just an artifact of copy/pasting from a .pdf file where it was hyphenated across two lines. Basically, you are saying I need much more why and how and supporting evidence. In my head, I am writing to admission types who want to get the gist of the applicant and move on. I was trying to keep the writing brief and engaging, and not get bogged down with detail that the admission types probably have very limited interest in. Thank you very much for the thorough feedback

Could someone please review my statement of purpose? This is my draft of my main statement of purpose for my first choice program. I am planning on writing variants for my backup program choices as well.