desmond.bo
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Thank you for the info! Although people here might not directly benefit, it is worth doing for those much younger students.
You guys can learn more about this program on bcs.mit.edu/postbacc.
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3 hours ago, biotechie said:
Even if you plan on marrying them, my advice would be to go where YOU feel that YOU will do best as a med and graduate student. Everyone that I know who moved to a place for their significant other and started a grad program there is not happy with their choice.
While my situation is a little different (my fiance stayed back for an awesome job rather than grad school), we are prioritizing our careers now so that we are better suited to end up in the same city one day. We've been long distance nearly 5 years. You can do it, and by saving well, we see each other several times a year for at least a week. This will be harder for your during med classes, but during the PhD portion, so long as you put in hard work, you can get away with some 3-day weekends.
For things that you can do to help cope with the distance, check out my post on this thread, and feel free to message me as well:
Saw your original post which is so sweet. I'm also going to take an apart relationship with my girlfriend since both of us are in the same field (biology, same as you), but the programs we got accepted, which include both of our top choices, literally have no overlap. Not even one close to another.
As you did, we decided to prioritize our career, well, since there is no other choice. But I really hope we can work this out like you two did. Thank you for sharing your encouraging story! Best wishes for both of you.
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9 hours ago, bioinformaticsGirl said:
I got mine the Monday after, but I interviewed the first week, so it might never a bit different for you.
Thanks for the info! And congrat!
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36 minutes ago, hippopotamus said:
For anyone who posted in the results search, when did you hear back from MIT biology?
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58 minutes ago, eagb said:
Accepted to MIT Biology...will very likely be attending. Initially thought CSB would be a better fit, but after interviewing for both, the differences are very subtle between the two and the structure of Bio was a better fit for me.
Congrat!
Did you hear back from CSBi? I believe they said it should be this week.
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15 minutes ago, jeanetics17 said:
Sweating bullets. Unless you're trolling.
10 minutes ago, Nomad1111 said:There are 3 acceptances on the results page now :/
Don't worry. Lots of my friends didn't heard anything today. I guess it's just because it's too late in EST. There would be way more tomorrow. It would be weird if only 3 of this forum got the acceptance.
Cross fingers for everyone on this thread!
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Got an offer via a phone call from BBS. Good luck to everyone!
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10 hours ago, doerlbh said:
Congras man! Did you get a CSBi rejection email earlier, then this email for invitation?
Thanks! Not exactly... I did receive one rejection letter from Department of Biology that day but I don't know whether it comes from the MIT Biology Program or CSB.
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Got an email from MIT CSBi offering an interview for the next weekend !!!???
Do not lose your hope too early guys. I guess there is indeed a waiting list.
- bioinformaticsGirl, MCF10A and SysEvo
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Me neither
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10 hours ago, PhDHopeful3 said:
From looking at the previous two years, it looks like the first round of interviews hears today.... not sure if that's the case this year, but that's how it has been previously.
Nothing happened to me today. Did you guys heard about anything?
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9 hours ago, verne91 said:
Are you an undergraduate from Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics?
Not really. I'm from Zhiyuan College. You?
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1 hour ago, SysEvo said:
My research mentor called the director and the director emailed the lecturer, asking him to consider adjustments. The director called what the instructor has done as unreasonable and said the faculty should not hinder students' success. Don't know if this will irritate the instructor and exacerbate the tense...
That sounds like good news to me. At least you are not on your own now. You got some higher but reasonable professors trying to help you. And you got us.
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23 hours ago, SysEvo said:
Yep... Aren't you at Yale???
Another "Made in China" lol.
Yes I am working in a yale lab for my undergrad thesis.
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6 minutes ago, RhodesZhang said:
Good to know that. I'm from Tsinghua.
Hi Mr. Tsinghua. lol Good to know you.
2 minutes ago, SysEvo said:Another Chinese here.
Wait, you also a Chinese?
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2 hours ago, SysEvo said:
I can tell from all his bragging about himself during the lecture that he has very high ego. He refused my proposal of adjustments quite arbitrarily and rudely, so I don't think talk to him again will make any differences. Also my research mentor is not in CS so he won't be very helpful. I have emailed both the academic advisors and the program directors, asking if I can take an equivalent course in my PhD institute and transfer the credits back...I have a BS in biochem anyway so even if I can't get this course to work, I still can go to grad school... Now I'm also worried that even if the lecturer eventually agrees to make adjustments because of the department's intervene, he could give very low scores on my writing assignments
Pat pat. I guess it's alright since you're moving forward to MIT, Galtech or somewhere even better. It would not be a big deal even if he really damages your final score. Just wanna say those professors like him need to go back to school themselves and learn how to be behave like an adult.
Hope everything is gonna be okay. Good luck.
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1 hour ago, SysEvo said:
Now I'm in a very negative situation: one of my required computer science course holds on the mandatorily lab on Friday. I need to go to the lab to pass, and the lecturer refused to make any adjustments to accommodate the interviews; rather, he told me to move the interviews to Monday, which is totally impossible. What can I do? Will writing to the undergraduate program director help? Thanks a lot!
That's annoying. Calling the director could be helpful but perhaps your advisor or somebody knows you much better could make your voice heard more easily. Personally I would suggest to communicate again with the course lecturer to see if he can be reasonable since he would be one in charge after all.
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1 hour ago, SysEvo said:
Just got the rejection!
Waiting heartbreakingly for CSBi, when a formal rejection from MIT Biology came.
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1 hour ago, RhodesZhang said:
Well. Guess mine is on the way. I'm in China, which is 1AM now. Perhaps it will arrive before I go to bed.
Hi Mr. China, nice to hear somebody else also comes from China.
I'm from Shanghai Jiaoda. Where are ya from?
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32 minutes ago, hippopotamus said:
Did your grad student host contact you directly?
Yep. I suppose they are doing these independently.
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On January 13, 2017 at 5:51 PM, desmond.bo said:
Thank you for applying to the MIT Computational and Systems Biology PhD Program. The admissions committee has met and had hoped to have all invitations sent out by today Friday January 13th. Due to grant deadlines, the committee in requesting more time. With this in mind, you should receive an update on the status of your application by Tuesday January 17, 2017. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your patience.
3Today is the 17th.
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1 hour ago, hippopotamus said:
Does anyone know if Harvard BBS sends out the list of faculty that you'll be interviewing with?
Don't think so. Still waiting on that.
Got contact with my student host though.
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5 hours ago, MCF10A said:
I actually found some data on HILS website and did some math based on the data. The result confirms what @Epigenetics just said:
(source: https://gsas.harvard.edu/programs-of-study/divisions/harvard-integrated-life-sciences)
(1)Last year all programs in HILS (BBS, BIG, MCO, immunology, chem bio, etc) accepted~396 students (2331 total applicants*17% admission rate), and the entering class is 210, which makes the yield rate ~53%.
(2)Since BBS is the largest cohort in HILS (~31% of the HILS), let's assume that the yield rate of BBS is similar to that number of the whole HILS.
(3)In order to fill 65 spots, BBS needs to accept 65/0.53=122 students. If the # of spots to fill is 70, they need to accept 132.
(4)~120 people will attend two interview weekends, and there are more internationals do Skype interview. Harvard BBS has ~30% intl students, let's assume that among 30%, half (15%) reside in the US and are already included in the 120, and the remaining 15% will do skype. The total interviewee number (onsite+skype)=120/(1-0.15)=142.
(5)The conclusion: BBS will interview ~140 students and accept 120-130 students, which makes the post-interview acceptance rate 86-93%. Not bad at all.
So guess we can just chill
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New MIT Neuro Post-Bach Program
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I know it's such a difficult choice right? Those two programs literally are the opposite (huge/tiny, tons of labs/a few but really edge-cutting, ivy/no undergrad, NYC/Boston). I'm kind of a bioinformatics guy so it would really end up with a choice between dry and wet. I saw your interest is in neuroscience? I'm not sure about this field but I would guess RU is one of the best places. But it really depends on who you wanna work with.
How do you think about those two? so far?