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Hello everyone! Noticed this thread has been pretty vacant for a while but I'll be starting in Cancer Bio this fall

I found this Quora thread very helpful: https://www.quora.com/When-declining-an-offer-of-admission-to-a-PhD-program-is-it-better-to-give-an-explanation-for-the-decision-or-to-keep-things-short tldr: keep it short.

I've ghosted this forum due to being busy - despite being fairly active at first - but I just wanted to swoop back in and say congratulations to everyone on the very busy past two months (and to those who are still interviewing also... I'm pretty sure there are a few??) I met so many amazing people on interviews, no doubt some who have been helpful and active in this thread; it is honestly such an interesting experience! The next month is going to be difficult to make decisions, but I know regardless of that by April 15 we'll all be heading amazing places. Good luck to all and many happy wishes! Hope to see you all at conferences / in the news down the line

Late to the party, but Stanford Cancer Bio! Screamed when I got the email. Congrats to everyone! Whee that's so great! I'm nervous for my first one next week. Glad it went so well for you!!

You are WONDERFUL, this is it!! I just trawled through like 20 pages of the forum to no avail because I couldn't remember where it was - but it was fun to look through all of the pre-December first posts also Thanks so much, @biotechie !

Joining the list of those hyperventilating about Stanford Cancer Bio. *screams* By the way, those of you more connected with thegradcafe's past forums - I remember there being a link to a super helpful megapost about dos and don'ts at interviews a while back. Would someone mind linking that again? I'd really appreciate it! <3

Congrats guys! Yeah it sucks that there are only so many weekends between now and April 15... But I hope it works out for you!

I just called UW MCB and UCSF Tetrad. Both programs aren't done sending out interview invites yet, but UW is interviewing from 1/27-1/30 and from 2/10-2/13... and UCSF is interviewing on 1/29 and 2/25 (no date ranges given)! Hope this helps anyone who is still twiddling their thumbs

Thank you!

UC Irvine CMB response today - interview weekends are Jan 21-22 and Feb 4-5!

This is probably not helpful but I haven't heard anything from UCSF yet so this is a bit of a follow up question also... Does anyone know if TETRAD has finished sending out interview invites? if not i wouldn't be surprised if the email was a preliminary one for accepted interviews and more details will come later as they solidify things...

http://www.thegradcafe.com/survey/index.php

Congratulations!!!! Go Maroon idk if this has already been said, but my app says the same thing - I read into it a little closer though, and it says somewhere at the top that they only need your unofficial transcript for the initial review process and will use the official one later on in the time of acceptance...

Does anyone have any idea of TETRAD interview dates? I have fallen into the familiar pit of checking the survey incessantly (again) and haven't really found any indication.

Ah cool! Good to hear.. It'd be great to have a somewhat stress free christmas

AH i've been meaning to watch that! Someone needs to take this computer away from me so I stop overanalyzing survey results from 4 years ago and twiddling my thumbs over when UW MCB will be sending out invites... lol

Congratulations guys!

I'm gonna sound like a telemarketer here but http://unroll.me is awesome for helping manage subscription emails... it consolidates all your subscribed emails and cleans them from your inbox automatically

Go green! I'm finishing up my undergrad here on the banks of the Red Cedar and will miss East Lansing dearly. and @den-of-thieves , will definitely be looking forward to that matchup. It's been a pretty great past few years to be a student here, that's for sure... Excited for Dec 31... See ya, Bama

AHHHHHHHHH CONGRATULATIONS!! I applied to the bio programs so fingers crossed!!!!

Thank you! I'm running out of reps to give! <3

HAHA I just found out it was WashU DBBS!!! Lol so weird. *screams into the wilderness*

Haha thanks! Yeah it didn't look like New Haven but like i said I thought it might have been a personal phone. It could also have been a telemarketer and I am overanalyzing everything as we do in this trying time

Star Wars is a definitely way to keep yourself occupied. So excited PS... I see your username... Do you happen to attend a certain school in Michigan? Gotcha. I'll just sit tight... I guess it could have been from a personal phone or something. Logged in and didn't see anything change on my app. I'll just be here nibbling on my fingers and trying to breathe

I also applied MMPP and I got a missed call at like 9am today... but the area code was like 440 or something (not New Haven according to my caller ID). My only thought was it could have been Cleveland but I've already talked to them...? This is being borderline paranoid but do any of you guys who got an MMPP interview know the area code you got the call from? I feel like I should call them back bu they didn't leave a message either... :'(