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Update: just got an email from Weill Cornell's travel people

Hey friends! Yes, there are 2 interview dates (I know this because I was initially invited to the later one but couldn't go so they switched me to the earlier group) -- Jan. 17-19 and Feb. 7-9. I also haven't heard anything from the travel folks yet about arrangements for two weeks from now, but I have to assume we'll be contacted pretty soon... right?!

Hey @Rampaige! I'm going to the NYU interview on Jan. 24-26, so hopefully we'll run into each other there! Til then, see you on the other forum

Someone mentioned being able to find a database for this in another thread, but I've been unsuccessful. Does anyone know how to find the rates of admission for interviewed applicants? (I know it varies by field and school, but I figure folks in other fields might be interested in this as well!)

My parents are both lawyers, so they're like "WTF is this, how did we end up with a kid doing biosciences??" and the whole PhD process is super foreign to all of us. Plenty of my family did post-graduate professional degrees (like lawyers and dentists and stuff) but to my knowledge nobody in my extended family has gone the academia route. It's weird!! I'm definitely lucky to have had good mentors in undergrad, both professors/PIs and current grad students to talk to about the process, because I seriously don't know what I'd have done without them.

WHERE have you been finding stats on how many interviewees get acceptances????? I've been hunting everywhere and can't seem to find any resources!

So do schools usually send out invites in waves? I'm new to this process (and the site too lol) so tbh have no idea what "normal" looks like... I've just been kind of stalking the results page under neuroscience and just assuming I was rejected whenever people post about getting invites to schools that I applied to and didn't hear from

Idk if this helps in your situation at all, but my experience with getting coffees was fine! I was at a conference in my field and emailed some professors I was interested in ahead of time and most were amenable if not enthusiastic about meeting for coffee (one even had breakfast with me!!). I think it depends on how you phrase it, and especially if you're applying in that cycle and to their program instead of vaguely ~might apply sometime in the future~. I wouldn't overthink it too much though, just keep it informational and professional

They emailed me around 5 EDT on the 13th, it's for the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, and the dates are a choice of February 6-7 or 7-8.

okeydoke I just did that thing! go here

Someone made a similar thread last year just to have a separate thread for neuroscience PhD applications for the 2018 cohort. Hopefully it'll help reduce a little bit of the interview/decisions anxiety if we're all in the same boat!

Did y'all end up making a new thread on the Biology forum?

I'm also a neuro kid applying this year, and from what I can tell, some send out in December, but others are later (for example Stanford has on their website that the earliest they'll send interview invites is 8 January 2018). Try not to stress out too much friendo! It's a long time to be on edge though :/ But I'd say don't start to panic unless you get to end of January and haven't heard ANYTHING.

Hey there! I got an invite to interview for Duke's Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program yesterday (very much out of the blue) -- dates are Feb. 23 and 24. That's the only school I personally have heard from yet, but from stalking the results page from previous years, the season appears to be upon us... Good luck to everyone!!!

Hey folks -- I'm getting more and more worried about this year because my list is pretty much all top schools after a grad student friend advised me to only apply to schools I /really want to go to/ my first year out of college. I'd love some opinions and feedback on what my chances might be. Undergrad Institution: Duke UniversityMajor(s): Neuroscience, BSMinor(s): Chinese Language, MusicGPA in Major: 3.85Overall GPA: 3.79 (junior and senior year 4.0 so far)Position in Class: haven't graduated yet but likely cum laudeType of Student: Domestic, Female, White/Asian, LGBTQGRE Scores (revised/old version):Q: 164 (87th)V: 168 (98th)W: 5.0 (93rd)I'm kind of worried about my quant score but I REAALLLLY didn't want to spend the extra money to re-take the testResearch Experience: 3ish years of research in undergraduate: 1 year in current lab (rat behavior, just now starting to get into the histology part), working on thesis independent project. No publication yet (we might be starting work on one), presented poster about the behavior stuff at a national conference like a week ago lol 7ish months in primate neurophys., no publications, left because primate research takes too long for me to write a thesis in the lab 1 year in clinical vestibular research, one first-author publication coming out in January -- it's in an Audiology journal though, not neuroscience 3ish months in a biochem lab, no publicationsAwards/Honors/Recognitions: undergrad summer research fellowship, dean's list-type awardsPertinent Activities or Jobs: member of an outreach club that does science demonstrations and provides mentorship for middle school girls in STEM Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I have a decent amount of teaching experience (developed and taught a course at Duke about LGBT stuff)Special Bonus Points: uhhhh I met some folks from schools I'm applying to at the conference I was at but I don't know what kind of impression they got of me.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: My rec letters should be pretty good; I am originally a California resident so I'm applying to a lot of CA schools (don't know if that matters at all) Where I'm applying:Duke Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program Stanford Neuroscience UCLA NSIDP NYU Neural Science Columbia Neuroscience UCSD Neuroscience UC Berkeley Neuroscience Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Neuroscience University of Washington Neuroscience THANKS FRIENDS FOR ANY HELP I AM V CONCERNED Here's a picture of a puppy looking at a microscope to help get u through the last stretch before apps are due on Dec 1 <3