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I did my undergrad in midwest and trying to get out of midwest too lol. I still applied to Uchicago tho, but definitely don't miss the heavy snow and wind chill for a tiny little bit

Albert Einstein Biomedical sciences: Jan 25-27 Berkeley Comp Bio: Feb 14-16 Berkeley IB: Jan 27-28 Berkeley Cell Molecular Bio: Feb 12-14, Feb 26-28 CMU-Pitt Comp bio: Feb 23-25, March 2-4 Columbia Biological Sciences: Jan 22-23, Mar 2-4 Columbia Biomedical Informatics: Jan 27-29th Cornell Tri Institutional computational biology: Feb 26-27. Duke Biochemistry: Feb 9-12 or Feb 23-26 Duke CMB: February 2-4 or February 16-18 Harvard BIG (I asked and then asked a contact I have and all I could get was late January or early February) Havard BBS: Jan 26-29, Feb 9-12 Harvard MCO: Jan 25-28, Feb 1-4 Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai (Neuro only): January 9-10 Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai (non-neuro): January 12-13 or January 19-20 Johns Hopkins CMM: January 19-20 or February 23-24 UMichigan PIBS: Jan 26-28, Feb 2-4, Feb 9-11 MIT Biology: Feb 11-14, Feb 25-28, March 11-14 MIT CSBi: Feb 3 & 10 MIT HST: march 2-4 (strange those two overlap as they are 2 of the top comp bio programs) Northwestern DGP: Jan 12-14, Jan 26-28, Feb 9-11 NIH OxCam: February 15-17 NYU GSAS: Feb 2-3, Feb 16-17 Princeton QCB: Feb 9-11 Rockefeller: Feb 23-24, March 2-3 Sanger 4-year program: Jan 23rd Sloan Kettering: Jan 10-12 Stanford BI: march 1-5 Stanford Biosciences: March 1-5 UConn Health Biomedical Sciences: Feb 10-11 University of Washington Biology: Jan 26-28 University of Washington Genome Sciences: Feb 12-14, Feb 26-28 UC Irvine CMB: Jan 26-27, Feb 9-10 UCSD BMS: Feb 2-5, Feb 23-26 UCSF bioinformatics: Feb 9-10, Feb 16-17 UCSF TETRAD: Feb 2-5, Feb 24-27 UNC Chapel Hill BBSP: Feb 2-4, Feb 16-18, March 2-4 UMass Medical School BBS: January 26-27 or February 2-3 UPenn CAMB: Jan 19-21, Feb 2-4 UT Austin Cell and Molecular Biology: Jan 19-22, Feb 9-12 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) Biochemistry DBBS February 2-4 and February 16-18 Yale BBS Immunology: Feb 16-19 Yale BBS MMPP: Feb 16-19 Yale CBB/MCGD: Feb 3-5

Thanks! Again my last name starts with C so I might receive the first few calls. Good luck!

Got a phone call from Yale adcom. Interview invites from Yale BBS MMPP Is this real life?

I think BBS and System bio are two different programs, so it's very liekly that they send out interviews at different times. Good luck!

My last name starts with C so I might be lucky enough to get the first batch of emails. BBS is a big program so it definitely takes long time to email everyone. Hang in there and good luck!

OMG just got an invite from Harvard BBS! BEST DAY EVER!

Mine just showed up today...17 days after I submitted the application.... On MIT biology website they say "GRE and TOEFL/IELTS scores are considered unofficial, but are sufficient for review purposes. Official documents will be required before a positive admissions decision can be made", so it shouldn't be a big deal if the official score doesn't end up showing up I guess.

Berkeley Comp Bio: Feb 14-16 CMU-Pitt Comp bio: Feb 23-25, March 2-4 Cornell Tri Institutional computational biology: Feb 26-27. Duke CMB: February 2-4 or February 16-18 Albert Einstein Biomedical sciences: Jan 25-27 Harvard BIG (I asked and then asked a contact I have and all I could get was late january or early february) Havard BBS: Jan 26-29, Feb 9-12 Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai (Neuro only): January 9-10 Icahn SOM at Mount Sinai (non-neuro): January 12-13 or January 19-20 Johns Hopkins CMM: January 19-20 or February 23-24 UMichigan PIBS: Jan 26-28, Feb 2-4, Feb 9-11 MIT Biology: Feb 11-14, Feb 25-28, March 11-14 MIT CSBi: Feb 3 & 10 MIT HST: march 2-4 (strange those two overlap as they are 2 of the top comp bio programs) NIH OxCam: February 15-17 Princeton QCB: Feb 9-11 Rockefeller: Feb 23-24, March 2-3 Sanger 4-year program: Jan 23rd Sloan Kettering: Jan 10-12 Stanford BI: march 1-5 Stanford Biosciences: March 1-5 UConn Health Biomedical Sciences: Feb 10-11 University of Washington Genome Sciences: Feb 12-14, Feb 26-28 UCSF bioinformatics: Feb 9-10, Feb 16-17 UNC Chapel Hill BBSP: Feb 2-4 UMass Medical School BBS: January 26-27 or February 2-3 Washington University in St. Louis Biochemistry (WUSTL) DBBS February 2-4 and February 16-18 Yale BBS Immunology: Feb 16-19 Yale BBS MMPP: Feb 17-19 (according to the update on their program website) Yale CBB: Feb 3-5

OMG just got an interview invite from Gerstner Sloan Kettering!

I sent Kathy (program coordinator?) a email but no response yet...

I already gave up since cancer bio has sent out invites....kinda heartbreaking cuz UPenn cancer bio is definitely one of my top 3 fav programs. Good luck to you guys!

Congrats! Guess it's time for me to move on

OMG I'm in real panic mode after seeing the first (and only) UPenn CAMB interview in the result survey Anyone else heard from UPenn CAMB today?

Wow our profiles are REALLY SIMILAR (except I did my undergrad in US as a intl student), and our school lists have many overlaps. Hope both of us can hit some interviews somewhere. Good luck!

9. NETFLIX 10. NETFLIX AND CHILL (jk lol)

I plan to travel too if any program will kindly take me in this cycle. Fortunately I saved some money in my bankroll by playing poker (impossible to make any savings from my $26k/y RA job)

I second this I heard that some schools "might" pay for international flights like Weill Cornell, UCSF and Stanford

I've done that several times and it should be very straightforward. You have two options: email the PI (cc your PI), or email the first author of the paper (cc both PIs). If the paper was published recently (which means the first author is likely to remain in the same lab), I'll prefer to email the first author because usually the grad students/postdocs tend to reply emails fast, but PIs are very busy and might take weeks to reply your email if you're unlucky. To start the email, just use several sentences to briefly introduce yourself, what research you're doing and explain why you need the cell line. Then mention in which of their papers did you know about the cell line, and ask if you can get their cell line. That's really it, just be polite and professional. You don't need to worry about the details like the method of delivery in the first email, as you guys will email back and forth several times afterward. Feel free to PM me if you need further info. Good luck!

Yale BBS MMPP: Feb 24-26 Rockefeller: Feb 23-24, March 2-3 Havard BBS: Jan 26-29, Feb 9-12 MIT Biology: Feb 11-14, Feb 25-28, March 11-14 Sloan Kettering: January (Jan 12-15 once appeared on their website but they removed it for some reason) WUSTL: Early Feb

According to the website " All completed applications will be reviewed and invitations to interview will be sent via email mid-January". And according to the gradcafe record, MIT biology sent out invites on Jan 8th (F2016), Jan 9th (F2015), Jan 13th (F2014). So it's gonna be a while of waiting I guess....

can't agree more. Keep refreshing these 3 tabs every 15 min...

Undergrad Institution: top liberal arts college (good reputation in undergrad education, but not known in research field) Major(s):Honors in biology GPA in Major:3.8 Overall GPA:3.7 Position in Class: don't know exactly, should be top 10-20%ish(GPA deflation in my school) Type of Student: international student finished college in US (how much would being international hurt my chances?) GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q:163(92%) V:170(97%) W:4.0(60%) B: Still deciding. I'm pretty comfortable with my V&Q, but the W is kinda low percentile-wise. Would it be worth retaking to get a 4.5+W? TOEFL Total: Waived Research Experience: 2 years in a cancer lab @ big public research university (1 mid-author pub) 1 summer (freshmen summer) in a cancer lab @ big public research university (another mid-author pub) 2 summers in a top cancer research institute , currently work there as full-time RA finishing up my own projects (2 conference posters, 1 mid-author pub under review, plan to submit my own first author pub early next year, but will be too late for application tho) Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) Best undergrad poster award in a national conference Several awards/scholarships/Dean Lists in my school Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, SPS officer etc...) TA for 3 courses, Hospital volunteer(100+ hours, used to be pre-med), leadership position in several school clubs, co-founder of a startup Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Special Bonus Points: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...) I should be able to get 3 very solid letters (1 college prof who knows me really well, 2 research mentors both well-known in cancer field) Applying to Where: (A giant list right now, plan to pick up 8-10 to apply out of this) MIT Biology Harvard BBS Sloan Kettering Yale BMS Stanford Cancer Bio Weill Cornell Rockefeller Penn BGS Uchicago Cancer Bio Duke Molecular Cancer Bio NYU Sackler Berkeley MCB/UCSF BMS/UCSD BMS (I heard that those UC schools are not friendly to intl students, should I even bother trying?) All my previous research experience is in cancer research and I like this field so far. But I don't mind trying out new fields in grad school tho, and that's why I think big umbrella programs are ideal. For those schools do not have an umbrella program, I will apply to cancer bio programs. Also I really want to go to school in urban settings. I would really appreciate any advices/inputs on finalizing my school list. Also please let me know if any program on my list is particularly friendly/unfriendly to intl students. Thanks a lot!