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Me too

I'm also unsure. One of my LOR writers told me that MIT might be behind on processing applications. I got an email way back from MIT Biology saying that they would give out invites by the end of the 2nd week of January (last Friday), but I also got an email from MIT CSB that decisions would come this Friday. My understanding is that everyone is having a busy app year since most programs are dropping the GRE so timelines will be more rolling/flexible as committee members make the final tough decisions. That being said, has anyone heard any word from MIT Biology or CSB?

I'm shooting for Stem Cell Biology

I thought it was ghosting but it looks like some schools are sending rejections this year.

Has anyone received an outright rejection from UC Berkeley's Computational Biology program yet? I saw that some people have invites but I didn't see any rejections either. Also my responses so far for curious people: (approximate dates) JHU CMDB invited 12/16 UCSF BMI invited 12/22 Stanford Biosciences (umbrella) invited 12/21 UVa BIMS invited 12/21 Northwestern DGP invited 12/17 UW Genome Sciences Rejected (I hear it's been a rough year for plenty of people)

Undergrad Institution: Medium public flagship, T1 researchMajor(s): Biology and BiostatisticsMinor(s): entrepreneurshipGPA in Major: 3.7Overall GPA: 3.7Type of Student: DomesticGRE Scores revisedQ: 164V: 166W: 4.5Research Experience: *all 4 years undergrad in the same lab (part-time, work study, research for credit, etc.) doing bioinformatics, animal handling, and bench work *1 summer with my school's iGEM team *1 year as full-time bioinformatics analyst with academic department *2 summers full-time at undergrad lab thanks to university stipends/scholarships Awards/Honors/Recognitions: *2 summer stipends *gold medal and nominations at iGEM *applying (pending) to NSF GRFP and DoD NDSEGPertinent Activities or Jobs: *bioinformatics tech/analyst jobAny Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: *2 publications with home lab *2 conference/symposium presentations *patent pending with home lab *3 pending/manuscripts that I am to be co-authored on *Working more or less completely independently on a bioinformatics project with publication goals *Some of my apps have 4 LORs, some have 3: At least 3 research LORs for all apps and an additional class-only LOR *graduated with distinction for senior thesisApplying to Where: Focusing on bioinformatics/computational bio programs or umbrella programs, I'm positioning myself as hybrid computationalist and experimentalist with an interest in Dev bio from a systems POV: My choices are mainly driven by geography, I'm interested in staying near industry/VC hubs if possible but it'll take a super selective school to motivate me to move cross-country.JHU UMD GWU UCSF UC Berkeley UW MIT Rate my chances!