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I too am very curious about MIT. I have all but given up on it, and any news would be greatly appreciated. Based on a (very rough) count 14 invites were registered at the "first" wave this year on this website. and a total of 13 invites were registered last year. This seems like bad news.

Hello, I am an international applicant from Korea, and I graduate with a M.D next year. I am interested in obtaining a neuroscience Ph.D in the U.S. (My field of interest is computational neuroscience/computational psychiatry). I have about 4 years research experience in a Korean neuroimaging lab, with 2 publications and 1 first author publication in a good journal. I also have an International Mathematics Olympiad medal from high school, although I am not sure that grad schools will take this seriously. My main weaknesses are a)low GPA b)main (research) LOR from korean prof, so will probably be discounted a lot. I will get the other two LORs from people(1 US faculty+ 1 US postdoc) who have advised me on a career in computational neuroscience. I have a few questions. 1. I have a low (Compared to the other guys out here...) GPA of about 3.4. I hear that some top/great schools use a GPA cutoff because there are too many great applications that they receive. I wonder if a)this will make the cutoff and b)they will understand that getting a 3.4 in med school is a bit harder. 2. I am a U.S. citizen, but since I studied medicine in Korea, I wonder if I will be grouped as "international" or "U.S". Also interested in how this will affect my chances. 3. I hear that neuroscience Ph.Ds are very competitive, so for example getting into Harvard BBS(Biological and biomedical sciences) and then choosing a neuro lab might be easier than applying to Harvard PiN (Program in Neuroscience) I wonder what people think about this. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!