Just so everyone knows, I'm almost 100% sure that every school's admissions committee is biased and discriminatory. I have a medical disorder that is highly stigmatized in society, and even though I can do laboratory work perfectly fine (I've worked in many labs before), someone on an adcom whom i know very well told me that the school did not extend me an interview solely because of my condition. I don't want to disclose too much, but just a warning to people who will interview that if you have a medical condition (overt or covert) that is stigmatized, do your best to convince your interviewers that your condition will not interfere with your ability to perform lab work.
I'm extremely disappointed in the discriminatory nature of graduate schools' adcoms, but I just feel like I should let everyone know what happened to me so that you are all aware.
Haha yeah, I realized that as I was filling out the response card. Thanks, and maybe I'll see you at the interview events
Just so everyone knows: Weill Cornell Graduate School's dates are February 8-10 and January 18-20!
UCSD Neuro sent me a rejection letter yesterday (Dec 27).
I also just received an interview to Weill Cornell Neuroscience. The dates are 2/8-2/10, which overlap with my UC Davis interview, so I'm trying to reschedule them.
Hey everyone, introducing myself here! It's nice to see so many neuroscience enthusiasts. I applied to:
UCSD (Neuro and Biomedical Sciences), UCSF, UCLA, UC Davis, Duke, UPenn, Boston University, Tufts, Brown, Yale, Weill Cornell, Georgetown. (I know -- it's a lot...)
Didn't hear back from Duke and UPenn, but I got an interview at UC Davis. Fingers crossed for all of us!