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MiCaB has started sending out interviews; not sure if they were sent out all at once, though.

Undergrad Institution: Ivy, strong bio research reputationMajor(s): BiochemistryMinor(s):GPA in Major: 3.3Overall GPA: 3.6Position in Class: N/AType of Student: Domestic maleGRE Scores (revised/old version):Q: 164V: 170W: 5B: N/AResearch Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...) In HS, did research for 2 summers that amounted to a 2nd author publication and a national conference poster presentation (Is this too old to include in an application, since it's been ~6 years?) Undergrad, worked in a cancer immunotherapy lab for 3 years, 1 poster presentation, mid-authorship on a manuscript that has been in the works for over a year now; the post-doc I was working with put this project on the backburner and has not reached out to me about publishing it for a while; I'm currently planning on just listing it as a manuscript in my application Currently an NIH postbac working in an HIV lab, submitting a manuscript that should be accepted by the time applications are due. 1 local poster presentation, 1 international presentation that will take place after apps are submitted, but my abstract will be in before then. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) Dean's List junior/senior year of undergrad NIH poster day presenter award Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, SPS officer etc...) N/AAny Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I volunteered in a science tutor/mentor capacity with underserved students both in undergrad and at the NIH Special Bonus Points: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...) Took several grad classes in undergrad and achieved A's Current PI is a major name in the field that will write a very strong recommendation letterAny Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:Definitely a strong upward trend with regards to science grades; as a couple of other posters mentioned, I had C's in a couple of organic chemistry courses earlier on, followed A's in almost all of the rest of my courses. Applying to Where: UCSF BMS Stanford Biosciences- Immunology Yale BBS Immunobiology Rockefeller Columbia Immunology Baylor College of Medicine Immunology University of Washington Immunology WUSTL Immunology Emory Immunology/.Molecular Pathology University of Chicago Immunology Harvard Immunology Considering: NYU,U Colorado, U of Minnesota Applying second time around; hopefully my additional research experience. Please let me know if there are any immunology programs I should add to my list/replace other schools with, esp those that would not be considered reaches!

Same for me as well. Theoretically since the accepted student deadline is the 15th, we should find out soon after, right?

I tried emailing the Immunology head person on the bioscience website, but she's out of town so I emailed the person she mentioned in her default away email.

Do you know if they sent all the Immunology emails out already? Was not expecting a response this early, but am disappointed to not hear anything from them yet.

Do you know when MCB is going to start officially sending out interview emails?

Slowly but surely I will steal all of your identities from this thread

I appreciate it, so I'll be distracting myself with finals studying. Congrats to you though!

Holding out hope that the emails are being set one by one...

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 Michigan PIBS: Jan 26-28, Feb 2-4 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 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 WUSTL: Early Feb Yale BBS Immunology: Feb 16-19 Yale BBS MMPP: Feb 24-26 Yale CBB: Feb 3-5

The email said they were excited to talk about my research and mentioned what I talked about in my application specifically.

@pitchfork @asdfghjkl1 I just checked, so excited! Can't believe they personalized our emails lol

I'm applying to Johns Hopkins also, but for CMM and Immunology. If you're referring to the previous post about a Johns Hopkins interview from this thread, I believe that was for CMM, so I wouldn't stress too much about it.

Add new dates in bold: 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 Stanford Biosciences: March 1-5

As a follow-up, wondering about how to narrow down programs I'm looking at Undergrad Institution: Ivy LeagueMajor(s): BiochemistryMinor(s):GPA in Major: 3.3-ishOverall GPA: 3.55Type of Student: Domestic maleGRE Scores (revised):Q: 170V: 164W: 5B:Research Experience: 3 years of research in a pathology/immunology lab at my school doing cancer immunotherapy work. Currently working on a manuscript right now (2nd author). Looking to attend conferences in the fall.Awards/Honors/Recognitions: N/APertinent Activities or Jobs: N/AAny Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:Special Bonus Points: The PI that's the head of the consortium my lab is a part of is a very well-known researcher. Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:Applying to Where: I'm interested in research with translational applications. Although my background is in cancer, I'm not deadset on pursuing it in grad school. Stanford BiosciencesUCSF - TETRAD/BMSJohns Hopkins WashU in St. Louis HarvardColumbiaYale WashU in St. LouisUCSDUC Berkeley