Epigenetics

As far as I've seen the interviews are casual wear, I haven't seen much discussion of needing to dress up for this!

Which UWashington program? I'm waiting on Genome Sciences.

The official e-mails are going out 1/3 according to this professor, but I think they do this professor call thing as a pretty uniform notification method.

Funny story I got a call from UC Berkeley MCB right at 5pm on Friday, and it wasn't until the professor sent a follow-up e-mail that I realized it was a professor. I thought it was just a dude in the admissions office. Haha.

The question was about UCSF Tetrad though. Look at the post.

I can't speak for Sinai but UCSF Tetrad sent me an e-mail on Thursday and it was a form e-mail so I think they've sent it out.

Guys can we all please chill. There are many stereotypes going around on this thread, both about Harvard and about Baltimore. People are apt to be offended by such generalizations, and they have also been used in positive ways as well as negative ones. Wishing you all the best with your waiting games, let's just support each other to get into the best program for each of us!

Has anyone heard a date when the UW Genome Sciences may send invites? Don't see anything so far but it seems like years past it sent around now...

Isn't the second day a Saturday then? 2/24-27 is Friday-Monday... I'm not 100% sure of this, I'm waiting bc UW Genome Sciences and UC Berkeley MCB have the same two sets of dates, so if I get the UW interview that'll preclude staying through Monday at UCSF. Don't want to be presumptuous, but I will contact her if/when I hear from UW. Thanks so much!

Does anyone know how long the UCSF interview weekend is? All I've gotten is 2/24, and I'm wondering how long it is, because Berkeley's weekend is 2/26-28, and I'd like to hit both. Also how amenable are programs to switching you to another weekend? I think (from this website at least) UCSF tetrad had a second interview weekend on 2/2, which I could 100% make.

I can confirm a lot of this good stuff from my labmates that are in BBS. The downside as I've understood it from them is its quite an impersonal program, because of the size and how diverse experiences are, you can get lost or not get the support one might need. And part of that does lie in having so many lab choices, it's hard for a program to address all those varied needs and experiences.

Great. I only asked because I see two people have been notified in the results feed.

Does anyone know about Stanford Biosciences admissions? It's my understanding that it's program-by-program, but I'm seeing a couple people have heard from them. Does anyone have intel on this? Thanks!

Dude you're the one telling us to be deliberate about where we apply for faculty and fit and shit, and you applied to 17 programs?!?

I'm not offended, I actually am not personally crazy about BBS (most of my lab is in it, I think there's a lot of problems with it) but BBS allows you to work with any faculty over pretty much any part of the university, so it's not a small program with similar outcomes, is what I meant by "you can do whatever you want". But when you're talking about a program with hundreds of students and a massive year by year class, even several anecdotes don't add up to a full picture. I am more interested in the students I know who are in the program and have actual suggestions about it. many of them don't like it and many do. I've basically had the role of a graduate student in a BBS for two years and even I don't think I have a full portrait of it.

Can we all please chill with overwrought stereotypes of major institutions? As someone who went to Harvard for undergrad and now works in an HMS lab, and is applying for PhDs, there are great things and awful things about Harvard. Also in your stereotypes, you're making a hilarious equivalence between medical research and biological/biomedical research. It's very hard and frankly incorrect to connect research into surgery techniques to research on DNA or the cell. Also just saying an institution "was amazing in the history" ignores what it currently is, frankly when a lot of those discoveries at JHU were being made Stanford was like 20 years old, so let's all chill. I applied to only six schools, but I applied to them because there were faculty there that I wanted to work with on topics I'm working on. Most graduate programs are defined by your PI, as I've learned working full-time in a lab the past two years. If you're just choosing for "reputation" or in spite of it, you're going to miss great opportunities. I can tell you for certain BBS is a program that will let you do anything you want pretty much, and it is incredibly student-dependent in outcomes. In that way it's similar to the Harvard undergrad experience. But the idea that you're just a PI's bitch or not doing good science... you literally can't make such broad statements because every lab is different. Let's chill with overgeneralization plz.

Just got my BBS interview offer too. I work in a BBS lab though so would've been awkward if I didn't get it...