Victorious Secret
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I'm planning to accept my offer from Stanford. Thank you for sharing this journey with me and good luck with all of your interviews and decisions. You're all amazing!
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Has anyone who interviewed with Stanford heard back yet? On my application portal, there is a request to do a CertiFile transcript for my home institution, but I don't know if they have done that for everyone.
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Yes, the government shutdown has led to budget constraints at a number of schools because of uncertainty about NSF grants. I discussed something about this a couple weeks back. I am hoping that those stresses may be diminishing now.
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15 hours ago, amm559 said:
Thanks for the input. I suspected that was true, but since my school is not very competitive in Chem E I haven't heard much from my peers about job offers. Unfortunately, I am not interested in either research or specific fields like biotech right now. I am also looking at a consulting offer at a big company so I might just take advantage of that, especially because the company could fund my Master's or MBA in the future. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if I get into a Master's program, then compare the exact program with the job to make an educated decision. Again, I appreciate your feedback!
Master's programs are quite expensive, especially since you won't be receiving Pell grants, etc. You might want to go with a BS-level analyst position in consulting and then try to get one of them to finance the MS. But those positions are still challenging to find, especially for top firms. Keep in mind that technical consulting often looks for different credentials than management consulting (also, many MBA students from top-10 programs end up interning with, or working for McKinsey straight after graduation).
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I'm doing an internship at Genentech. I want to work for them after PhD so it is a good way to squirrel away some money, survey the lay of the land and network for the future. I think that academic research makes people well qualified for certain industry internships, especially in biotech. But feel yourself out now. If you are burned out already you may need a couple months to decompress before school. Also, be mindful of internship deadlines, many of them have passed (Novartis NIBR, Genentech, DOE SULI, and Illumina, for example). Good luck!
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17 hours ago, empress_empiria said:
When Stanford sends out their official invites, can one of y’all let us know? I have a tiny bit of hope still... but mostly waiting for the rejection before I celebrate vanquished dreams.
I got my Stanford invite email last night. The deadline to make flight arrangements is February 5.
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36 minutes ago, StHoly said:
Official rejection from MIT.. Boo..
Same.
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2 hours ago, Abhirup Basu said:
Have you heard back from MIT?
No =(
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12 minutes ago, extramaniac said:
thats awesome! do you know many interviews they've given/how many they have left to give? sorry for the questions just trying to glean some info. congrats again though!
I PM'ed you that info.
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Just now, extramaniac said:
congrats! did a POI contact you?
To be very honest I had a hard time hearing the call. It may have been. I thought it was a call from Genentech because of the 650 area code. So so happy!!!! Shaking. But anyways, yeah, they're definitely still making interview calls.
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I just got the invite call from Stanford!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4 minutes ago, empress_empiria said:
So are we assuming rejection if not contacted yet by stanford?
Seems to early to assume that now. Also the invites were not on the same day.
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I have now heard from two professors at separate schools that budgets are tight now due to grants being held up with the government shutdown. I know of one UC chemE program that has slashed admissions by 50% this year because of funding issues (and the UC system has particular funding issues due to the budget impasse https://diverseeducation.com/article/135304/). Has anyone else heard words to the effect of graduate admissions being reduced due to funding?
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28 minutes ago, yeebioe said:
Hi guys, I've been lurking here for a while and decided to join in on the conversation. I checked my Stanford application status earlier today and noticed it was listed as incomplete, and I was just wondering if the same happened to anyone else. I'm trying not to freak out because I know I submitted everything on time, but I'm not sure what's going on.
No that is fine, mine did that too. If you email them about it you will get back an FAQ indicating that it is meaningless and if they need anything from you they will ask.
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There is a lone Stanford interview invite in the results section. Usually they send them all at the same time.
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3 minutes ago, gummybear9 said:
I got into UC Riverside! I applied as a safety but I genuinely love the research and I'm so thrilled. I'm going to grad school! I feel so much less anxious now about other schools.
Yay! Congratulations, so happy for you!!!
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2 hours ago, dontor said:
True, true
Normally Stanford has a 75% acceptance rate, I was thinking maybe this meant that anyone offered interviews would for sure get in being that late in March.
I imagine that fewer people would be able to attend interviews given prior visits, spring break plans, etc.
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2 hours ago, dontor said:
I'm still sort of salty with Stanford postponing announcements for interviews till march. I'm sort of hoping we are just interpreting it wrong.
I think they put that up so we would stop emailing them and asking about it. Most likely they will come out in a few weeks and they are just backed up with everything. That's my guess anyway.
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2 hours ago, gummybear9 said:
I’m starting to get really scared that I’m not going to get in anywhere. I have one official rejection and a couple schools sent out a lot of interviews in one day that I didn’t get (MIT awhile ago, UW yesterday), and others have been sending things sporadically and I haven’t heard from them either. Even my kind-of safety hasn’t gotten back to me although there have been a few acceptances so far. I know it’s technically still pretty early but this is incredibly discouraging
Hey! I went back and reread your profile. While you did apply to a lot of top schools, you have applied to three programs that I believe you should be very competitive for. Your submitted publication is a significant asset, provided that your PI discussed it in their LOR. But your best reason to relax is this: It is actually much earlier than it seems. I know that a lot of interviews have been sent out already, but Davis doesn't appear to have sent them at all yet, and Riverside trickles them out for months. Sitting and staring at a phone or inbox (like I have all winter break long) makes it seem like something is wrong because of the silence. In my experience, acceptances came when I was distracted and least expecting it. I wish you those kinds of surprises. ?
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2 hours ago, extramaniac said:
for those of you applying to stanford BioE, I noticed on their bioengineering phd website, it says that we should expect to hear by "early March for interviews for the PhD program". Seems like they recently changed this...because it previously stated we'd hear for interviews "late January/early feb" wonder what it means or if its real.
Wow. It really does say that. How bizarre. What are they going to hold interviews in late March/early April or something? I wonder why they need so much time.
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5 hours ago, empress_empiria said:
Does anyone know what post-interview acceptance rates look like for UCB-UCSF?
Yes I also would like to know their rates, or for Stanford.
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3 hours ago, sgaw10 said:
Kinda starting to lose hope on Duke ?
Chin up, in 2018 Duke BME had rounds of interview invites in early Jan, early Feb, and mid-March.
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MIT is not Stanford in that they do not typically send out all of their interview invites on the same day. They trickle in a little bit. In 2016 they invited over a span of 3 weeks. Also, when you search for MIT's bioE program, use "biological engineering" since that is the actual name of the program and will yield actual results. You also need to spell out MIT's name since "MIT" is too short.
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On 12/18/2018 at 4:08 AM, oppenheimer said:
Alright, thank you for that! Where did you end up enrolling?
I'm an applicant now (for Fall 2019), so I will be making my enrollment decision later this year.
Drug Test for a PhD?
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If they drug tested grad students it would really reduce the workload for professors. There wouldn't be anymore pesky grad students to mentor.
I have never heard of drug testing in grad school and would be stunned if it existed at any significant level, even outside the US.