NeuroKween
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For all those waiting on Columbia, I heard that they’re very slowly rolling out decisions since the past few weeks and have sent only approx 1/3 of the acceptances so far. Not sure what their strategy is, but I think that makes sense given how spread out the acceptances are on the results page.
so hang in there!
- neurochurro99, Neuronancer and snowbaby
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Honestly can someone ask a co-director at Columbia what’s going on? I already emailed a week ago, so I can’t really do that again, lol.
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48 minutes ago, snowbaby said:
Why? Do they send out offers first, then waitlist, then rejections?
I don’t know why I assumed that, but I did, haha. Hopefully I’m wrong.
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4 hours ago, dopamine_machine said:
Hi all, I saw in the results page that someone was waitlisted for Columbia's program in Neurobiology and Behavior. Does anyone have any more information on this (which track/etc)?
Ugh I definitely don’t feel good if the waitlists are now being sent out
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Anyone got offers from Columbia today? Particularly from Darcy/systems and circuits track?
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8 minutes ago, PaRvAlBuMiN said:
I feel you! Does anyone know if there's a date we should expect the results to be released?
I’m almost tempted to email and ask them since it’s been so long now! I know decisions were made last week so I don’t know why they haven’t been sent out yet!
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2 hours ago, NotDawsonsCreek said:
Anyone know anything about what's going on with UCLA? Got an acceptance from Virginia Tech and really want to accept, just waiting to hear back from UCLA before I do.
P.S. Was not invited for an interview. Have heard nothing since Dec. 1
I think that if you haven’t received an interview from them at this point, its almost definitely a no. Although I have heard of a few rare cases where people have gotten interviews in like March or Apr
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14 minutes ago, illfigureitoutlater said:
Whoever said Columbia would get back to us this week has made me an anxious mess lol, jumping every time I get an email
They sent em out in the 19th/20th last year! Im guessing it’ll come out today or on Monday?
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19 minutes ago, neurochurro99 said:
Hmm I'm wondering if I didn't receive that email if I can already count myself out. At least we'll know soon!
I’m not sure that email means anything really. Sounds like an update more than anything else. Fingers crossed!
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2 hours ago, neurochurro99 said:
Who did you receive the email from? I haven't heard anything since the interview weekend in January.
I got an email from Darcy a week after my interview saying this:
“I'm writing to let you know that the Systems Admissions Committee for NB&B at Columbia was impressed by your application and reports on your interviews. Our second open house is February 12th so we are going to wait until we can meet the week of the 15th to make final decisions on offers of Admission.”
so I guess we should know soon!
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53 minutes ago, Neuronancer said:
My grad student host told me they usually start their bootcamp at the end of August.
Does anyone know when acceptances/rejections start rolling out? I saw someone say Feb. 19th but is that an official date they got from admins or just a guess?
I received an email that told me that decisions are made on the 15th, so it would make sense that they start to roll out on the 19th/20th!
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11 hours ago, snowbaby said:
Is anyone else lowkey or highkey freaking out about the fact that there are only 2-3 international students in most programs? That sounds like 20-30% of the international student interviewees... I def am feeling super stressed about this
Yep, except for CSHL that doesn’t differentiate between home and international students!
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does anyone know when the semester starts for NB&B, Columbia?
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30 minutes ago, dopamine_machine said:
Yes, so the cohort size of NB&B is between 10-20 usually (it definitely varies), but since the matriculation rate probably between 30-50% (most top programs are like this), they likely have to make twice as many offer in order to get the cohort size they want.
I see! That makes sense
definitely makes me feel better about the odds!
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2 hours ago, dopamine_machine said:
I think maybe 15/weekend if this is what you mean. I'd assume they give a little over 30-35 offers (out of 60 interviews).
Ohh, maybe I’m only thinking about only the NBB program then? A current student there told me her cohort size is 15.
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13 hours ago, illfigureitoutlater said:
I have my interview for NBB this week, it looks like each weekend had ~30 people. Does anyone know how many offers they will send out? It’s my dream program/school so I’m really hoping I receive an offer!
They send out only 15 offers, so this is a toughie. Fingers crossed!
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3 hours ago, actionpotential said:
Rejected from one of two programs I interviewed for. Feeling really down and not very confident about my chances for the other now. I feel like I just got dumped, its so sad.
I’m sorry, I imagine that feels horrible. However, there’s still one to go! Sending you all the best vibes!
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Just now, snowbabyjia said:
Wow! But their class size is also like 8-10. Does that mean everyone accepts?
Oh, sorry. I meant only 8-10 are accepted but I don’t know how many are interviewed.
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On 2/4/2021 at 9:48 AM, snowbabyjia said:
Anyone knows the acceptances numbers for cold spring harbor lab?
9! Really small number hah. Not sure how many interviewees in total though.
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40 minutes ago, Smoothbrain said:
I think it's interesting that they're telling everyone different things. My email came from Wesley. Here's what mine said:
We were able to extend very few offers of admission after our first open house and will make the vast majority of our offers after our second open house in two weeks. We remain very enthusiastic and we will be considering your application together with all others at that time.
I see! I think it sounds similar to mine, tbh. .
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9 minutes ago, Smoothbrain said:
I got one yesterday saying the same thing except I wasn't asked if I was planning on accepting any other offers. I wonder how many people they accepted after the first round. I was told they extended "very few" offers and would be waiting until after their next interview weekend to make the majority of their offers.
Interesting! So did they actually make direct offers to first round interviewees or was it similar to this email? I thought it was kind of vague but seemed like a non committal “just so you know we think we want you in”.
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7 minutes ago, dopamine_machine said:
I know certain tracts have gotten it! Who send the email? I know Ken and Wes have sent emails to some applicants
I got one from Darcy! Unsure of what the point of the email is tho
2021 Neuroscience PhD Applicants and Admissions Results
in Biology
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perhaps! Although I’ve seen both a waitlist and a rejection being posted already. Have you heard back yet?