alwaysNeuro
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On 4/5/2019 at 8:39 AM, neko98 said:
I heard back from them last Thursday or Friday. I believe interviews are being held this week over phone.
thanks for sharing and sorry for the late reply~ did the email mention how many applicants will be interviewed and will there be more invitation in the future? I am going to email them again!!! I think I have gone mad...
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Is there anyone heard from Northwestern Neurobiology master's program? They said they began reviewing in March, but I haven't got any updates.
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same as many friends above, BU seemed to be my last hope, and I did not receive an invitation~ I was trying to locate some RA or technician jobs but really have no idea where to start. Should I go to websites like Indeed and Glassdoor or simply just email professors of interest? Thanks in advance:)
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Has anyone heard from UT southwestern medical center, their application page is currently out of service! I am so nervous, on idea if it is a routine Maintainance or a preparation for status update.
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57 minutes ago, fearfulocelot said:
I'm an RA/lab manager. This would be my third year in this position. I meant to go straight from undergrad to PhD, worked as an undergrad RA for many years and even published as an undergrad, but I got very sick senior year of university and wasn't able to apply. Worked for a year as a medical lab tech, applied to grad school, got into a few places but realized I had no idea what I was doing and probably wasn't in a good place to start graduate school, and the school that accepted me wasn't a great fit anyway.
So I turned down that school, quit my job, took a job in research, worked a year, applied again, rejected without interview from 13 schools (still trying to work that one out, tbh), applied for jobs, decided to stay in my job, applied to schools again, with much more luck this time. I'm also trying to publish a first author manuscript sometime in the next couple months. My personal statement makes it out to be like, a coherent narrative but really life is weird and things are complicated.
As an undergrad, I was terrified of joining the workforce instead of professional school because it seemed so open-ended, but it really hasn't been so bad as long as you have a goal in mind and a plan B (mine is to go into industry--at this point I have 6+ years of bench experience and can go in as a master'a equivalent). I don't think I would've been a very good grad student if I had gone straight from UG to grad. I've learned a lot of useful things as a technician/RA/lab manager, both bench things and general life management skills. You get one run at a PhD generally, it doesn't hurt to be a more prepared, experienced, and mature researcher.
5That was really encouraging! I really appreciated your experience. And if you don't mind, could you please share with us how you got your first job in a research lab after graduation?
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24 minutes ago, beeboop said:
If you don’t mind me asking, what rejections have you received so far?
Not at all~I have so far received a rejection from the University of Michigan officially, and an unofficial rejection of MIT(asked by myself).
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Does anyone know which university is going to send out the interview in January? And will domestic applicants and international applicants (outside North America) be notified in different time manners? I currently have no positive news, only a few rejections.
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2 hours ago, jayewal said:
Thanks! And was it for the Neuro program? I know interviews are Feb 6-8th but I am not sure how the program works in terms of waitlist, etc but I can try and find out as I know some faculty involved. I think they are behind compared to most years due to all of the fires closing campus late November.
Thanks for sharing the info! Yes, I was talking about the neuro program. I handed in my application pretty late, just a few hours before the deadline, I am not sure if it will delay the review of my profile~ BTW, do you happen to have any knowledge of the developmental biology program in UCD, some of my friends did apply to it and they haven't received any update.
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2 hours ago, jayewal said:
Just got my first interview (wooo!) at UC Davis for IGG. Somewhat annoyed though as I realized the recruitment weekends for IGG and Neuro are the same, so I believe I didn't get a neuro interview as I put my first choice as IGG. Just sad I spent the extra $105 on an application when there was no way I could have gotten an interview for both.
congrats!! I applied to UCD as well and haven't heard from them yet. In fact, I only got a few rejections but no interview. Anxious and desperate, but you gave me some hope~
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32 minutes ago, applicant09 said:
Does anyone have a take on what this means? Normally I would say that they are still reviewing applicants, but it appears that people have already received interview notifications/rejections?
Does that mean that we are "on hold" until their top choices accept the interviews? What is your take on this?
I think every applicant received the email. Maybe lots of applicants asked for an update so that they sent an email altogether...
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1 hour ago, space8 said:
Hi all!
I've been reading this forum for the past hour, so I figured I'd also share my applications and everything. I honestly didn't expect responses to be out so soon. I just discovered this site today after friends and family were bugging me about my applications. Now I'm *stressin out*!! I haven't heard back from anywhere yet, and it's nice to see that others are in the same boat. Most of the interviews people have gotten are for schools I didn't apply to ?
Here's a list of where I applied: University of Washington (Neuroscience), UC Berkeley (Neuroscience), Stanford (Biosciences), UCLA (NSIDP), USC (Neuroscience), USC (Psychology), Caltech (Social & Decision Neuroscience), UCSD (Neurosciences), UCSD (Psychology), Northwestern (NUIN), Columbia (Neurobiology & Behavior), NYU (Neural Science), Duke (CNAP)
I am assuming that since I haven't heard from UW or UCB that I didn't get an interview, but I'm holding out hope!! Please post if you have any info about those schools.
This is my first time applying to PhD programs. I have pretty strong research experience with a few co-authored pubs (working on my first author manuscript currently), good GREs, strong recs, but my GPA is not competitive. I'm hoping that since I'm 2 years out of undergrad, it won't matter as much.
I'm looking forward to the next week of news (hopefully good) and hearing from people going through the same ordeal! I found this CV of failures on a psych forum, and it helped me put things in perspective. Hope it can help some of you, too!
Good luck to everyone, and lmk if you wanna chat! I clearly need to distract myself from checking my emails.
space8
Hello mate, we are on the same boat. I haven't heard from any school I applied to, except a request of secondary application from UTSW (which can be nothing).
My situation may be worse. I have no pub, two years research exp. Not so competitive GPA or GRE. My TOEFL was just above the requirement.
I probably won't feel frustrated if I get all rejected because it is foreseeable. I spent a lot of time reflecting myself lately and am happy to figure out what I truly want. I might go for post-bachelor research, but I do not want to give up upon neuroscience.
Happy to chat~ It felt released to divulge
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I wonder if the international applicant will receive an interview invitation apart from the domestic~
Because only a few friends around got the interview........
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Did any international applicant receive an interview invitation?
2021 Neuroscience PhD Applicants and Admissions Results
in Biology
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Hi all,
Happy to meet you all here! It will be my second attempt to apply to phd program this year and given the current pandemic situations, I am extremely anxious. So, it will be nice if you can give me some advice.
About me: I am an international student currently pursuing a MS degree in the US.
GPA: 3.4 in undergrad, 3.8 in MS
GRE: verbal and quant are above 90th percentile, AW is 4.0
Research experience:
Worked in a cerebral cardiovascular lab since sophomore and learnt about rodent behavioral, in vitro electrophysiology, animal surgeries, etc. I finished an honored thesis in the same lab and had a second authored pub in a journal (IF ~ 11), a poster presentation, two fellowships.I am working on my MS thesis right now but thanks to the pandemic, things got a little bit delayed. I am lucky to have gained some dry lab experience and learnt about in vivo ephys this time. hopefully I can gather enough data for a complete story before November.
LOR: two letters from my supervisors (undergrad and MS), one from a professor I took class with in my MS program.
School list: SUNY stony brook, UMass Amherst, Pittsburgh, Penn state, U Kansas, Tulane, Temple, Drexel
My biggest drawback is my undergrad GPA. I had a below 3.0 GPA before junior year (depression bc of family tragedies). I only officially worked in two labs though I spent a summer in another lab learning ephys. I know it will be exceedingly competitive this year esp for international applicants. So, I basically will go for school ranged from top 50 -200, but I really like the PIs in Pittsburgh and want to give it a try. Should I add more safety school to my list?
Thanks!