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I got it a few minutes before I posted so they may just be sending it out. Good luck! Thank you! My invite was from the Biology home area.

Just received an invite from Stanford Biology!

First time applicant!

Thanks for finding that out. Now to wait for Stanford Bio... x_x

While I hope MIT is not finished yet, I doubt I'll be getting an interview... I was too exhausted to properly change my SoP to fit their "proposal for graduate studies" prompt.

Harvard MCO and MIT? Seconding the Stanford Biosciences (curious about Biology and Genetics).

I applied to 7 programs, and got fee waivers for all but two of them. I took the GRE a month and a half before the apps were due, and sent the GRE to 2 schools out of pocket. $105*2 + $205 + $27*2 = $469 Though now I am spending quite a bit on interview outfits.

I can't speak with absolute certainty, but I doubt the professor will care. You've already interviewed with him, and external factors like you being in class with the prof are unlikely to have a significant impact.

Thanks for the input everyone! I think these are really important discussions to have. I primarily picked the skirt because I feel like it would help with the cold, blizzard-like weather, but I'll keep you all posted on if anything comes up with regards to the skirt. If one thing is true, it's that I am not about to let some crusty, judgmental guys keep me from looking my best on such an important day! ?? ??

I'm not going to be wearing any. I think it should be fine to be yourself as long as it's not overdone.

Did you ever follow up with them? Sometimes emails get buried in inboxes because professors are busy. A simple "I just wanted to check if you received my previous email" should suffice.

Just wanted to vouch that some programs will definitely wait. One of my letter writers submitted her letter a week late and I still got interviews to great programs. Of course this depends on the program, but I don't think it will adversely affect your application unless it doesn't get in at all by the time they meet.

I am not someone who feels comfortable in the typical slacks/blouse/blazer combo. I am also not a fan of pencil skirts since they bring too much attention to the figure. Would a long skirt (reaches my mid calf - picture linked here) be acceptable for an interview (biology)? Or would a typical conference dress be better? Or do I just have to suck it up and wear the slacks and blouse...? I tried searching on this topic online but have found exactly nothing that matches my inquiry...

Can't speak for MCO completely, but my friend and I both got interviews yesterday for different weekends.

Is a long skirt/long sleeved shirt too casual to wear to interviews? I'm not a huge fan of the usual slacks/blouse combo.

Great, thank you for the clarification!

Doesn't it also depend on program flexibility/PIs though? Perhaps not at Harvard, but the PI I did research for over the summer would not let you graduate unless you had 3 first-author publications and one review.

Did you ask your supervisor to mention in the letter that your work was likely worthy of a publication?

Just got an invite from Irvine CMB! Unfortunately all of my programs are inviting me to weekends that conflict with one another...

Hey all, So I was assigned to the first interview weekend for one of my programs. However it conflicts with another (potential) interview weekend for a program I'm not as excited about but still very interested in. I'm thinking about switching to their second interview weekend if space permits. Plus, assuming I get the interview at the other school, I will have more practice for this one. However before making my choice, I'd like to know if anyone knew of advantages that come with attending the first interview weekend?

Yes... I'm very surprised about that part.

JUST GOT AN INVITE FROM HARVARD MCO!!! One of my top choices

Let's steer away from the Kardashian-level drama. ?? Does anyone know when Harvard MCO releases interview offers/when the committee meets?

Does anyone know when the UCLA Biosciences interview dates are?

Berkeley Comp Bio: Feb 14-16 Berkeley Cell Molecular Bio: Feb 12-14, Feb 26-28 CMU-Pitt Comp bio: Feb 23-25, March 2-4 Columbia Biological Sciences: Feb 23-24, Mar 3-4 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 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 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) 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: January (Jan 12-15 once appeared on their website but they removed it for some reason) 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 UCSF bioinformatics: Feb 9-10, Feb 16-17 UCSF TETRAD: Feb 24-??? UNC Chapel Hill BBSP: Feb 2-4, Feb 16-18 UMass Medical School BBS: January 26-27 or February 2-3 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 24-26 Yale CBB: Feb 3-5