[Fall 2019 Statistics Applicant Thread]

19 minutes ago, jwlim07 said:

@Geococcyx @Stat PhD Now Postdoc Thanks for your realistic input. I should forget about the waitlist for a while.

Is anyone familiar with Harvard Biostatistics Master of Science Program with thesis? I wonder if there is any internal process from masters to doctoral degree in Harvard something like petition process in Berkeley or fast track in Michigan.

Since I also received fully funded Biostat PhD offer from other reputable school which is not top3, I really want to gauge my options.

 

As far as I know, they don't have fast track option, but they do consider their masters in a separate pool from external applicants, and will admit around 2-3 of them.

[Is anyone else just way too anxious?]

13 minutes ago, cbspot said:

I have had some interviews, but none of them went well. I got one rejection and silence from the rest. I can sort of tell that my chances are very small.

 

1) I can make peace with that. I will just have to figure out some other career plan and things might turn out for the better.

2) However, because of that small chance of getting accepted, I cannot make any long-term commitments, for as long as 2 months from now.

 

I calm myself down in the morning at work thinking 1) over and over again, which works at least through the day. But just when I think I am at peace, the anxiety comes out of nowhere as soon as I have some free time. So the next day the cycle repeats...  I really hope I can get out of this anxiety, its not healthy at all.

I'm at the same boat. I had some interviews and I only got waitlisted. I don't know whether I should consider other career plans right now.

I just cannot keep myself focused on anything. I'm thinking about talking to a mental health professional.

[2019 Computational Biology/Bioinformatics/Systems Biology Admissions Results]

On 12/19/2018 at 1:45 PM, bound_to_love said:

Update:

 

Harvard; Biostatistics/Bioinformatics

Caltech; Biology/Computational (on-line interview 12/14)

MIT; CSB

Princeton; QCB 

UW; Genome Sciences (Interview)

Boston University; Bioinformatics

UCLA; Bioinformatics 

UPenn; GCB (Interview)

Tri-Institutional; CompBio

John Hopkins; Biostatistics (phone interview 12/20)

Stanford; Computer Science 

UCSD; Bioinformatics

Carnegie Mellon University; Bioinformatics

May I ask when did you get the interview invitation from John Hopkins Biostatistics?