camth
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On 1/2/2018 at 3:33 PM, synapticcat said:
Is this for BBSP?
Yes, I'm not sure if my reply to this posted earlier. I'm honestly gonna just give them til the end of January and count it as a probable rejection if I haven't heard back by then
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On 12/25/2017 at 2:26 PM, Bio_123 said:
I hope we all hear back, happy Christmas and new year
I tried the multi quote thing but I can't figure it out on my phone. I just called UNC and now they told me we should hear back by mid-January especially if we are getting an interview. So yeah no worries lol
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On 12/30/2017 at 1:00 AM, Cottagecheese24 said:
Is UC Berkeley's Molecular and Cell Biology Phd program still sending out invites? University of Colorado, Boulder Biochemistry program sent me an invite about an hour ago.
They sent an email saying that invites would be sent out the first week of January, I see a few people got early invites though I wonder if those were "unofficial" invites through a POI or something and not from the department
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7 hours ago, Bio_123 said:
Hi!
I wonder if the schools send the rejection answers after sending all interview invitations. Many people received an invitation to interview from UNC BBSP. I received neither a return nor a rejection. I'm starting to worry
I hope we all get acceptance from the schools we want. Good luck everybody!
Im actually worrying too, because I was told I'd hear back before the end of the week and nothing. I was starting to worry my application fell through the cracks but hopefully we hear back.
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1 hour ago, ADresearchHopeful said:
Do you know if that applies to neuro as well?
No sorry, but you can just call. I'm sure they'll answer
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SO I don't know if anyone cares but I just called UC-San Diego for the Biological Sciences Ph.D. and was told all decisions should be made in the next couple days.
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6 minutes ago, synapticcat said:
This is very helpful, thanks! I have a friend who's a first-year at UNC through BBSP, I might reach out and see if she happens to have any insight into the process.
Not sure which track/program everyone applied for, but I applied for neuro and I believe she did too when she applied.
No Problem, best of luck. I, unfortunately, will no longer be able to sleep until Saturday after hearing that the decisions are coming lol.
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1 hour ago, scoobydoo9 said:
Do you know if that's for all programs within BBSP?
I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I would have to say yes. Because if I recall the way BBSP works is you aren't applying to the Ph.D. programs in your first year just the general BBSP program, then after that first year you choose your Ph.D. program. Also, I told the lady who answered that I had applied to the BBSP and she didn't ask me to specify my programs in order to answer.
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13 hours ago, synapticcat said:
Seeing some people hear back from Northwestern DGP, but also see that they sent interviews into January in previous years, with a lot coming right before christmas. Surely this means there's still hope? Maybe?
Also wondering about UNC - BBSP, since a lot of people seem to have gotten interviews there. Wondering if they submitted for the priority deadline? I didn't submit until 12/5. Curious also about University of Washington GPN, seen an interview here or there.
I called today BBSP said good or bad we will hear by the end of the week
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So I've been doing some research on this topic, cause it may soon impact me, and I have heard different things. The first is that contract and temp jobs don't really count in the whole quitting before a year and second that even in jobs that do a lot of places say you get one freebie, then there are a bunch of negative opinions towards it. I know a lot of people who have left jobs in under three months when they got a position they really want and have just neglected to put the job they left on their resume. You'd just have to weigh the trade-off of being able to claim those eight or so months of experience against the fact that you might get a bad reference from your first boss. Crazy thought is your job close to any school you applied to, so that there's some way you can semi-finish the year out while actually in school, like on the weekends or something.
Personally, I think the best move is to either defer if you don't have to go to PhD right now; or explain the situation probably completely honestly and hope your boss understands. Though you could always say something like you had no intentions to apply when you first got the job but you were sent a fee waiver from the school and decided to apply on a whim and ended up actually being accepted and have now decided to go. I know last year Notre Dame sent me a fee waiver to their grad school last minute so I just decided to say why not and send off an application so there is precedence. Honesty is probably the best policy though because once you start lying the whole thing can just blow up in your face.
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4 hours ago, samman1994 said:
So wouldn't say sup-3.0 gpa, I had exactly a 3.00 gpa, but I feel like that still semi-applies. GRE scores 155/156/ 3.5 Q/V/AW, so not all the amazing. No pubs, one lab with 3 years of experience. Just got my first acceptance letter for a PhD program from Iowa State University. So totally doable, good luck guys!
Congrats. I have comparable GRE scores and a 2.77 ugpa, no pubs and 3 years research as well. I also applied to Iowa State just for BCB instead, maybe we will see each other there lol
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You could always use a virtual machine like Virtual Box that's what I do for windows and Linux on my Mac
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1 hour ago, pataka said:
Well this is my first year applying, but I've been binge-watching Grey's Anatomy on Netflix (it's what got me through application season too so I didn't explode with stress). I go to dance once a week, and I've been prepping to bake holiday cookies this weekend! Also going to see a ballet show, and other random things to spend time with friends. Planning to see my fam for the holiday. Do things that don't involve sitting in front of your computer and staring at your email. We can do this
The Punisher is my show of choice right now.
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Lol I just got a free months trial of Netflix and haven't been able to watch any of the popular shows until now so, I'm going to binge watch them all starting now. Hopefully this works, I'm also still trying to get a job so I have other matters to worry about. Good luck though
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This maybe a late reply, but I am not a huge fan. Although I have been told that as you said a lot of pharma/biotech companies don't do direct hire anymore. My problem with them is 1) When I think I have multiple job offers but they're all really just different recruiters contacting me about the same position. 2) It seems to be slightly more difficult to determine whether or not the position is a good fit from a recruiter phone interview 3) But mainly it's the inconsistencies in pay because the recruiter gotta get their cut I guess and I have seen the same job posting different places with different pricing sometimes a whole 3 dollars/hr difference.
The drastic salary difference is due to it being displayed as a range some places and solid number other places
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Hello, while I agree with some stuff said I think it depends on the program. I'm not sure of your due dates or how your programs admissions works but I've seen some programs that offer expedited admission decisions should you have a professor willing to accept you in their lab. So it could possibly help them speed along your
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I've applied to around eight programs, I'd have to go count. But I'm definitely freaking out
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Well if that's correct then they still have 15%of the invites left to send so maybe you'll be a part of that. Good Luck.