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Yes. I guess i have to go ahead and book a flight before they explicitly tell me to do so? It is still cheap, but i expected them to urge fast booking to reduce flight costs haha. Maybe im being stingy

Is it safe to assume that the administrative staff at most programs are on vacation?

Email: "We have had a large number of highly qualified applicants, nearly all of whom have extensive research experience and have had successful academic preparation. We typically make offers to about 10 - 12% of applicants." Edit: sorry i never sent them any email.

UW GS rejection...

Merry Christmas people Just a random thought occurred. Let's say I am in the west, and have interviews all in the NE in 3 consecutive weekends. Is it crazy to want to stay in the east for the duration? Appreciate any advice!

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 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory WSBS: Jan 18-22 Columbia Biological Sciences: Jan 22-23, Mar 2-4 Columbia Biomedical Informatics: Jan 27-29th Cornell Tri Institutional computational biology: Feb 26-27. University of Chicago Molecular Biosciences: Jan 19-21, Feb 9-11, Feb 23-25 Duke Biochemistry: Feb 9-12 or Feb 23-26 Duke CMB: February 2-4 or February 16-18 Duke Immunology: February 9 – 12 or February 23 – 26 Emory PBEE: Feb 16-18 Harvard BIG: Jan 25 - 27 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 BMS: Jan 26-28, Feb 9-11 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 16-1 Yale BBS Immunology: Feb 16-19 Yale BBS MMPP: Feb 16-19 Yale CBB/MCGD: Feb 3-5 0

Harvard BIG 1/25-1/27

Harvard BIG here too!

Thanks for all your recommendations! So much to learn...

I personally dont want to live in Baltimore for 5+ years... but I definitely welcome to being proven wrong about this

What's wrong with New Haven? I have never lived there, so.. My PhD goal is to combine web & dry labs... so your list is a bit foreign to me. I didn't major/minor in CS, so I am a bit worried that I will be blindsided in comp bio PhD. Can you recommend how I could improve my CS skills? I am learning basic algos and data structures right now, and solving online CS problems to work on my coding skills, but any tips would be appreciated haha. Also, why not Caltech?

I see you applied to Stanford BI, MIT CSBi, Harvard BIG, UWashington GS, and CMU-Pitt. Why not Yale CBB, Princeton QCB, WashU DBBS or Berkeley Comp Bio? Also, Harvard BIG interview date remains a mystery, and could potentially cause massive conflicts at least for me...

Is MIT Biology/CSBi known to accomodate interviewees who cannot attent official recruitment weekends because of conflicts? I've looked at several threads about interview conflicts, but wanted to know if MIT, being so selective, would actually deign to individualize interview days... PS: I haven't actually received MIT invite, just worried because it looks like I won't be able to attent either of their weekends

Most schools post their interview dates on their webpages

Berkeley Comp Bio: Feb 14-16 CMU-Pitt Comp bio: Feb 23-25, March 2-4 Cornel Tri Institutional computational biology: Feb 26-27. 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 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) 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 University of Washington Genome Sciences: Feb 12-14, Feb 26-28 UCSF bioinformatics: Feb 9-10, Feb 16-17 WUSTL: Early Feb Yale BBS MMPP: Feb 24-26 Yale CBB: Feb 3-5 Please add to the existing list. Does anyone have dates for Caltech system biology and Harvard BIG?