behavioral_ecology

Sorry to hear that! Had you interviewed with BU or not? I'm just unsure which "stage" of rejections they are at. Best of luck with all your other app!!!! ?

UT Austin has not sent out official rejections yet, but I did confirm with my potential advisor that interview invites were already sent out. So I am just using that as a sign of rejection for me since I didn't get an invite.

Rejections from: UC Davis, U of Minnesota, U of Illinois, Stanford, UT Austin, and UCLA Interview: BU Unknown: U of Oklahoma Also, feel free to DM me, too! I'd love to chat about Ecology stuff and hear about your thoughts on schools

Well please let me know if you hear anything! My potential advisor has provided updates here and there, so I will also share if I hear anything.

Congratulations!!!! I know the department website makes it clear that Neuro/CM admissions are a different process from EBE/marine admissions. But this makes me hope I might hear back at least soon-ish! ?

Has anyone else who already interviewed for Boston University - Biology gotten a final decision back yet? Or any word on when we might hear back a final decision?

@crochetdog Oh no. I'm surprised that I haven't seen any results posted here for Ecology since it's such a big program. Thank you for that update. Congrats of course on getting your invites! Best of luck!

@Medinari thank you so much!!! also, love the primate work. I've done some lemur work before, even though I don't focus on primates now. that's awesome!!!

@Medinari I am so happy to have seen you respond to my post! You are the only other person on here and on Reddit I know of who also applied to Davis Animal Behavior. I guess it's a small program, but let's definitely keep each other informed! This is an email that the program coordinator sent me on January 19 after I asked for an update: "Thanks for your application and asking! Yes, the pandemic certainly threw everyone off and know that as we speak, the committee is working on reviewing the apps and selecting students to invite. I would say by the end of this week or the beginning of next, we should have invites out. Best of luck!" Unfortunately, I am worried that this is bad news for me since I haven't heard back by now. And I don't want to send her another follow-up email quite yet.

Well......I'm sitting at 6 NO's, 1 interview, and 3 unknowns. Any word from U of Oklahoma Biology, Davis Animal Behavior, or Davis Ecology?

Good luck on your interview @BirdEvo ! If I were to share any tips, don't be afraid to ask questions about the program rather than wait for them to ask you things. That is great because no one likes awkward pauses in an interview and it shows interest in the department.

Did anyone hear from UT Austin EEB? I see 1 interview request listed in the Results page but I haven't heard anything myself

I emailed the graduate admissions coordinators for timeline updates at each of my programs (because I'd rather know I'm rejected now than anxiously wait until April for the official decision). Here is some info from them: -UCLA interview invites have already been sent out -U of Minnesota interview invites have already been sent out -UC Davis Population Biology interview invites have already been sent out -UC Davis Animal Behavior interview invites should be sent out by around the beginning of next week -UC Davis Ecology decisions go out between early February and late March, though she did not mention an interview timeline

I'm not sure if UT has a recruitment weekend or not. I'm also waiting to hear back from U of Minnesota, U of Oklahoma, UCLA, UC Davis, UIUC, and Stanford* if anyone has any news on those programs! *I have seen interview requests for Stanford Biology so I'm assuming it's a No for me.

I have also not heard anything back from UT Austin!

@Mikedrumm22 I am also curious abut the wait listing from Minnesota. How did you hear back? My portal doesn't have any updates.

Congrats @entoemma! Best of luck with the Cornell interview!

Hi guys! I'm glad to see other EEB-types here! I specialize in behavioral ecology (hence the username ?) and I just graduated this past spring with my M.S. For PhD apps this cycle, I applied to UC Davis, UCLA, Stanford, U of Illinois, U of Minnesota, UT Austin, U of Oklahoma, and Boston University. I haven't heard anything back from any admissions committees yet. The waiting is so intense.

Just wanted a forum for all us EEB folks to have a place to chat, anxiously wait, and update one another.

I found out earlier today that I was awarded a $6,500 fellowship (through my current undergrad university) to conduct original research this summer. It is a project I am planning and budgeting independently. It involves behavioral ecology studies of lemurs in Madagascar. I would be there for 8 weeks. Details aside, I know this sort of thing could only be beneficial to my PhD applications. Is it presumptuous or weird of me to tell the programs about this? If I did so, is it better to email the program coordinator or just upload an updated CV? Or maybe I should tell my POI? Thanks for the advice!

That is an incredibly helpful and encouraging response. Thank you!

There is an EEB program that I have interviewed at and have thoroughly loved. The grad students seem happy, the faculty are crazy smart and very friendly, there is a guaranteed funding all 5 years, and the program just seems like a great fit. The one caveat is that my POI does work different than what I kind of imagined myself doing. We are interested in many of the same research questions which is why working with him is a great prospect. My worry, however, is that he does mostly modeling work, using genetic data sets that someone else sequenced and has shared with him. I love fieldwork and the fact that this POI doesn't really do fieldwork (and doesn't have a wet lab of any sorts) does worry me a bit. He has said that possibilities of collaborating with other faculty and getting some of those opportunities are possible. But, especially from talking to his post-doc, I can tell that he really values the modelling work above all else and can maybe be so focused on that that he forgets how many interesting and cool science things are done before he gets his data sets. I guess where my mind is at is that this is an amazing opportunity for me to answer research questions I am interested in, while mastering skillsets in popgen and stats modeling work (which are important in basically any subfield ofEEB). But I don't know if this will paint me as only "the stats and popgen guy" when, after graduation, I would ideally want to go do more fieldwork. Do people move from purely modeling work easily? Or would I find it hard to get research opportunities outside of heavy modelling work?

In the Results section for 2017, people reported interview invites, acceptances, and rejections within the span of January 20-27. It makes me nervous that I have not heard back from the E3B PhD program yet. I am just wondering if anyone has any idea of the timeline this year or has heard back yet. Also, good luck to you other applicants!!!

Good luck to everyone! I commiserate with the stress of checking email incessantly all day. You all sound amazing and will find success anywhere you end up!

I saw one person post in the Results section that Princeton EEB sent them an interview invite on January 2. Has anyone gotten an invite following the 2nd? Can anyone confirm all interview invites have been sent?