extramaniac

lol just "received" my "rejection" from penn after being "invited" to a "chat" yesterday despite the deadline to choose a school on monday. worst graduate admissions office of any school I applied to. wait till after the deadline to "give" a decision and be completely unreceptive to any sort of emails. fuck them

I set up a meeting with a POI at a conference we both are attending next week. I haven't heard anything from the school (although they have sent invites out). Any advice on how I should approach this? Is it kind of a pseudo-interview for me?

Just found out a 1st author abstract of mine was accepted to a conference. Anyone know the best way to update schools about this?

I'm quite surprised at the people saying not to contact current students and/or alum. Unless the website specifically says not to contact them, it doesn't hurt to try. Just be direct in your email. At one school I applied to, the website straight up encourages applicants to contact graduate students, postdocs, and professors. All of my conversations with people at this school and others have been nothing but informative and courteous.

ill PM you

Thanks. I'll also wait for the email from the program coordinator. I feel like i'm in some sort a conundrum. I got an interview (northwestern) which surprised me because theres really only one PI i'm interested in working with so he's the only person I put in my application. I figured if he wasn't interested, I wouldn't waste too much effort. NW isn't my first choice, but the PI is doing exactly what I'm interested in. I didn't get an interview at my first choice (most likely, haven't heard officially) but that school has multiple PIs doing close to what I like albeit not 100% like this NW guy. I'm just paranoid that the one PI might not live up to expectations or something goes wrong. Then I'd be stuck. But since I have no other interview options its like...what else do i do.

Does anyone know the general interview attire? Is it formal (eg suit and tie for guys)?

thats awesome! do you know many interviews they've given/how many they have left to give? sorry for the questions just trying to glean some info. congrats again though!

congrats! did a POI contact you?

either of you (or anyone else) heard anything from northwestern? i also applied there and I saw 2 interviews on the results page.

yeah i'm pretty interested in this as well since i'm very interested in their imaging based research. feel free to PM me also.

i just heard back from a school today for the first time. it seems a lot of places are behind this year compared to last, especially for bioe

penns my #2 so same. hopefully we meet each other there thanks. you seem to have a great profile. good luck on your interviews

do you mind sharing your profile?

for those of you applying to stanford BioE, I noticed on their bioengineering phd website, it says that we should expect to hear by "early March for interviews for the PhD program". Seems like they recently changed this...because it previously stated we'd hear for interviews "late January/early feb" wonder what it means or if its real.