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shmal96

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  1. Congrats!! How long did it take for you to get the notification? I interviewed their second weekend.
  2. Hey all, so I just missed a phone call (I was in class) with the same area code and city location for a grad school i'm waiting for a response from, but there was no voicemail left. So I called back, but it just said "all current lines for this number are busy, please try again later" or something like that. So I checked out gradcafe results and I saw that someone else posted that they received an acceptation via phone from my same school and program today! So it is fair to assume that this call was the school for me about my program as well? Should I try calling back more, or do you think they'd try to call back later today? Maybe wait for an official email to be sent? I'm freaking out as it's one of my top choices so it would be nice to know for sure!
  3. Don't know if I'm allowed to freak out yet
  4. Anyone received a rejection from Mount Sinai? I know they said they'd start sending out decisions Feb 1st, and I saw some people post here in the results section of getting acceptances, but haven't seen any denials yet. If I haven't gotten anything yet, do you think they'd still be sending out more acceptances later this week?
  5. I mean, they know you'll be sending the somewhat same thing to your other interviewees, there's only so much you can say. Most of mine were pretty much the same, with an added line of either something we talked about or just something along the lines of their specific research being interesting. I wasn't expecting them to reply since they're so busy, but some of them did so that's nice!
  6. Congrats! I'd still go, just for the experiences and the people you'll get to talk to! Since it's pretty short notice I doubt they'd ask someone else to fill your roll. And if you do end up getting accepted, then it'll just be easy to immediately turn the offer down so then maybe someone else who interviewed with can get your acceptance slot.
  7. Just got an email today about my application status being updated on the website...generic rejection letter :/
  8. For the actual interview day, pretty much everyone either had a matching suit or a suit/sports jacket+dress pants. I had a suit and didn't feel overdressed at all. The other days is much more casual than people seem to realize. I'm sure it varies between schools, but for Mt. Sinai they said to just 'dress how you would come to lab' so I just had jeans, boots and a sweater. Most schools have one day that's more casual and involves a lot of walking so you can't really go wrong with a sweater and jeans/chinos. The 'aggressive' part was just the one interviewer talking really fast and asking questions about one of my research topics that I didn't know a lot of detailed information (only because my role in it was super small and wasn't my main project so I didn't have all the technical details so I fumbled a bit with that, but I switched the topic to my main research that I could explain well) Pretty much the other questions were along the lines of 'Why a PhD, why this school in particular, do you have an idea of your future career goals based off of what you've done so far, do you have any questions about the program/area' I really hope I can get accepted there, it's my top choice and the school was so nice, plus the students seemed genuinely happy and nice Judging by what the previous grad students said, there's a pretty good chance that if you got an interview that you can get an acceptance if you didn't completely mess up something, or if you gave off bad vibes (I'm still thinking cautiously about it though haha). They also had a pretty large number of matriculated students I thought (last year was around 50 I believe), but that's only students who accepted offers, so who knows how many offers they sent out to people who ended up declining (it also depends a bit on the specific program you apply to and if they're looking to recruit more people or not)
  9. Nope still waiting to hear back from them as well. I noticed some of the other Biosciences have been sending out notifications throughout the past few weeks so i'm hoping it's coming soon.
  10. This does make sense. It's all a range, but schools aren't typically up front about those numbers (though at this school the current students seemed to act like if we got interviews, we had a pretty solid chance of being offered acceptances, which was reassuring). I guess it also depends on the funds of the school, like school #1 for me paid for everything, multiple dinners, $400 travel reimbursements, etc while the other school I ended up having to pay because their $250 travel reimbursement didn't even cover my plane ticket. I'm not sure how much school #1 had for recruitment funds, but that makes me feel a little better that they wouldn't do all of that if I didn't have a good chance of being offered admissions (don't want to make it a sure thing though I can't get too comfy haha) You're right! Good luck! It's such a great school, everyone is so friendly and they really sell it well! For the interview though im sure it all depends on who you talk to, some might be more 'aggressive' than others. I still wore a suit for them all, but only felt nerves talking to one guy who was grilling me with questions about my research. One lady didn't even talk about her research because she just wanted to hear about me
  11. So I went on my first interview last week, and it was very 'interview light' and more involved with student/faculty presentations, learning about student/faculty research, networking/mingling events, learning about grad school life, and activities in the area to show off NYC. The first day I had three faculty interviews for 30 minutes each that were pretty casual, and one 20 minute informal interview with a current grad student. I'm going on another interview this weekend, there's one 'fun' dinner planned with current grad students, and on the interview day I have six interviews with admission committee members and professors for 45 minutes each. It just seems like for my first interview, there wasn't much time to make an impression during the interviews and two of my three professors were pretty informal when talking to me, compared to the one i'm doing this weekend where there's more time allotted for discussion. I guess what i'm asking is, do some interviews matter 'more' for some schools? Obviously they all matter, but is the school that's pushing 6 almost hour long interviews putting more weight on how your interviews go in determining your acceptance outcome? While the other school who seemed to put more focus onto you having a good time, learning about the school, the type of research they do, and selling the grad school lifestyle, is putting less weight on the interview affecting your acceptance unless it went horribly wrong?
  12. Still waiting to here from them too :/ I assume we're on the 'waitlist' after they see who accepts their first round of interviews
  13. It can't hurt to ask! One school I was offered an alternate weekend, and another school offered to do a Skype Interview instead.
  14. Anyone know if NYU Sackler sent out rejections for Biomedical PhD? Looking at the results page here, I saw a bunch of people get interviews before Christmas but haven't seen any rejections posted. I haven't heard anything yet so I'm wondering if i'm on the 'wait-list' or if they just haven't gotten around to rejecting people yet :/
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