Giant_Squid

I think that the 2016-2017 statistics refer to the graduate students who applied last year and enrolled this year. I remember seeing those same statistics back in October/November. I also applied to iPQB and I haven't heard anything back yet. It looks like interview invites were sent out the first week of January in the past few years, so that's probably when they'll be sent out.

Hi, thanks! I'm not sure, sorry. It's certainly possible that they sound out two waves of invites. I got mine super early (December 9th) so it's possible they'll send out some later ones.

Hello all, I realize that I'm quite late to this but I'm on break and bored and need people to talk to about all of this. Undergrad Institution: Top 5 science and engineering school Major(s): BioengineeringMinor(s): PhilosophyGPA in Major: 3.76Overall GPA: 3.79Position in Class: Top 25% among engineering majors, top 2 or 3 in BioengineeringType of Student: Domestic white femaleGRE Scores (revised/old version): revisedQ: 170V: 166W: 5B: NoneResearch Experience: About four months in a chemical engineering/bioengineering lab working on a protein engineering project. Most of it was full-time summer research. This took place at my home institution. Two or three months full-time summer research in a bioengineering lab that studies fruit fly behavior/flight dynamics. Also did some part-time work during the fall term. This also took place at my home institution. Three months in a bioengineering/biophysics lab that engineers microtubule systems in vitro. I participated in the BIOMOD competition as one part of my project.This was at a different university. No publications. I just wrote research reports for the summer research and gave presentations at my school's seminar day, plus I gave a presentation at the BIOMOD competition at UCSF. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, a small award from the BIOMOD competition, academic honors from the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches, a summer internship award for women in STEMPertinent Activities or Jobs: I'll be TAing for the first time next term. I did some mentoring of high schoolers/undergrads in my lab last summer.Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I've played NCAA water polo for the past 3 years, and I'm now one of the team captains. It's not that big of a deal since we're DIII and no one really takes athletics seriously here, but I dunno, maybe it shows commitment or something.Special Bonus Points: Female. Two of my letters of recommendation were from my last two research professors, and they are fairly well-known and accomplished. The other is from a lecturer who I've known since my freshman year, has taught four of my classes, and has asked me to TA for him next term. Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I made sure to put a lot into my statement of purpose about why I wanted to go to each particular program/which scientists I wanted to work with in each program. I also discussed an interest in teaching and reforming biology education.Applying to Where:Princeton Quantitative and Computational Biology (QCB) UC Berkeley Biophysics Stanford Biophysics Harvard Systems Biology MIT Computational and Systems Biology (CSBio) UCSF Biophysics (iPQB) UCSD Bioinformatics and Systems Biology UC Santa Barbara Biomolecular Science and Engineering (BMSE) MIT Bioengineering So far I've gotten interviews at Princeton, Berkeley, Stanford and Harvard. Haven't heard back from any of the others. Does anyone know if UCSD is done sending out interviews? I see some people got one already.