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What are people thinking? How are you contemplating between your offers, etc? I have been accepted to both Duke and Harvard, and I am unsure which to choose. I really enjoyed the community at Duke, and I know there I will get the training I need to be a successful academic researcher. Plus the work there is in a system I am familiar with. However, I also feel like Harvard is ... Harvard, and it is going to open a lot of doors just by sake of its silly prestige. Any advice (especially from people who were accepted to these schools too)?

Accepted to Duke Biology and U Chicago Ecology and Evolution Rejected by Princeton Ecology and Evolution .... still waiting to hear from Harvard (Oddly enough I felt unsettled about U of C, but thought I had Princeton for sure)

I was invited

@phylogenious my first author was a publication in New Phytologist. I am also a co-author on a pub in Science. Travel arrangements for OEB Harvard are due today.

I have been stalking this forum for a month. Figured I would go ahead and add myself. Undergrad Institution: Largest State SchoolMajor(s):GeneticsMinor(s):ANthropologyGPA in Major: 3.9Overall GPA: 3.9Position in Class: Top, Honors Distinction GRE Scores (revised/old version):Q: 159V: 159W: 4.0Research Experience: 2.5 years undergrad with a competitive fellowship, 2 separate 1.5 year tech jobs. 2 publications, 1 manuscript in the worksAwards/Honors/Recognitions: 2 posters, 2 conferences, top undergraduate thesis awardPertinent Activities or Jobs: 3 full years as a full time research associateAny Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:Applied for the 2017 NSFGRFPApplying to Where: I am interested in evolutionary genetics and quantitative genomics. Keep In mind I spoke with multiple professors at each of these schools, not casting a broad net, but deliberately speaking with people who do the same type of research that I do and that I am interested in. Harvard OEB: Invited to Interview Feb 5-7 Princeton EEB: Invited to Interview Feb 8-9 Duke Biology: Unofficially Invited to Interview - pending formal invitation Columbia EEB: pending U of Chicago EEB: Invited to Interview Feb 15-19