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Thanks for letting me know!

I have heard back from Harvard BIG and JHU CS, and waiting for MIT EECS/CSBi and Stanford BMI. I think some people here have heard back from both Harvard BBS and Chemical Biology.

Anyone heard from Princeton QCB on this thread yet? I'm wondering if I should rule it out completely because there are 2 posts on the Results Search.

Welp, that's a no for me then ?

Here are all the places I've applied to (hoping it'll help some people): UCSD BISB [received invite 12/20] Columbia BMI [received invite 12/20] Harvard BIG [received invite 12/23] JHU CS [received invite 1/3] MIT EECS MIT CSBi Stanford BMI Princeton QCB CMU CPCB Cambridge Genetics If anyone has heard from the rest of the schools above please let me know!

I haven't heard from CMU (CPCB) yet.

@rcon I did not send my fall grades, especially because they lower my cumulative GPA.

I think BIG is done (I got an interview + they told me they are currently making hotel reservations).

Ben Langmead.

Just got an unofficial interview invite from POI at JHU CS (Comp Bio)! Anyone else?

I think some people have heard back from Tri-I, Yale, and Harvard SSQBio, but no one heard from Stanford yet AFAIK (I also applied to Stanford, seems like traditionally their interview invites go out early-mid January).

@JesseSL Same! Although it's highly unlikely that someone wouldn't post on the results page when they got an interview...

Has anyone heard back from any of: Stanford DBMI, MIT CSBi, MIT EECS, Princeton QCB, JHU CS, or CMU Comp Bio? I’m hoping at least Stanford or Princeton starts sending interview e-mails. Thanks!

@kataegis Sameeeeeeeee!

Just got an interview for Columbia DBMI!

@kataegis Good point! I think they might have assumed that we are going back home for the holidays (which I am tomorrow), so that may be why. If you end up asking them please let me know what they say!

@kataegis Same situation, international at a US school and I got a Skype interview! Congrats!

Congrats to all who are done with applications, and good luck! I applied to 9 programs so far: Harvard BIG, MIT EECS, MIT CSBi, Stanford BMI, Columbia BMI, Princeton QCB, Carnegie Mellon CPCB, UCSD BISB, JHU CS. I'm planning to apply to Cambridge and Brown if I don't hear back until January. If you applied to any of these programs above, when do you think we'll hear back for interviews? Thank you all!

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