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I think you have good reasons. That's interesting you already have two degrees from there and maybe is a good reason to move to another institution. In fact, a lot of programs will be biased against their own students applying to a PhD there because it means their students don't get to see neuroscience more broadly. 
Personally, I don't apply the sorts of modeling that depends on a fuller characterization of a model organism's brain but I won't impose my biases on you. Since you're familiar with MIT, my perspective would most closely align with, say, someone from Jazayeri lab. I agree that MIT is very cognitive in their computational approach, perhaps because they are an older program, but there's some new blood there like Robert Yang I think? You know the institution better than I so if you feel you've seen all MIT has to offer, Rockefeller is not a bad idea. Their invertebrate work is legendary: Cori Bargmann comes immediately to mind. Vaziri lab also just posted an interesting paper on imaging whole cortex of the mouse so I think there are options to still try out the more neural data sciencey approach as well. I think you can't go wrong with either school and maybe Rockefeller is the move since you already know MIT well. Boston has a great neuro community with BU/NEU/Tufts/BC/Brandeis/Harvard/MIT but so does NYC with NYU/Columbia/Weill Cornell/Mt. Sinai/Rockefeller/Albert Einstein/CUNY Graduate Center; you can't go wrong with either!

Yesterday was the best day ever! I accepted into Boston University's GPN and received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Can't wait to start working towards my PhD in Computational Neuroscience in the fall!
To everyone still waiting to hear back or who are currently waitlisted at their top choice, don't give up or let it get you down! Even if you don't get in to your top choice (or any where this application cycle), take consolidation that between university budget cuts, the amount of students who deferred a year last cycle, and the waiving of the GRE requirements, this was one of the toughest grad application cycles in probably the past decade and thankfully it is almost over!
The fact that you are on this forum means you are invested in your career in neuroscience and I have no doubt that you will succeed no matter what obstacles are thrown your way! 
 

Still havent even received rejection ?

Wow then you've been waiting even longer! I feel like this track is the latest, and hopefully they'll let us know next week! Good to know I'm not alone lol. At this point any type of decision would make my life easier... 

Is there anyone who's still waiting to hear back from Columbia? I interviewed the second weekend, it the Neurobio of behavior and cognition track (Darcy). I'm not sure if I should do something since everyone I know that had applied to Columbia received some news on their application, and I emailed Darcy on Monday but haven't received any replies... Am I the only one?

Not sure if this is consolation but you had a solid shot and got an interview at a top program as an international student in the toughest application cycle since the Great Recession. I've seen that UCSD in particular (because they are a state school) will only take 0-2 international students per cohort. You're probably one of less than 1% of international students that were taken to interview! Every candidate is great so I don't think these professors were lying to you but maybe you weren't as good a fit as another student and that's fine; it's not a referendum on your abilities. Take this as an opportunity to learn to work through a rejection because neuroscience is all about rejections whether that's getting into grad school, getting a paper accepted, getting the NRSA, getting a postdoc, getting a K99/R00, getting a faculty position, getting a foundation grant, getting an R01, getting tenure etc etc. 
I've helped some of my international friends and they have to be twice as good as U.S. citizens and that's not fair to them; I wish it were different (I am a U.S. citizen). However, I will say that by having to work twice as hard, international students end up being twice as good. They end up being the stars of their cohort and star neuroscientists generally speaking. Why do you think international students are only around 10% of PhD students in neuro but end up being maybe 20% of faculty? You might fret not being at a place like UCSD but it's not the school that matters, it's how productive you are and the quality of your research. No matter where you land, if you do good work, you'll be able to postdoc in whatever big name lab you want. At that stage, the advantages of being international vs. citizen disappear because funding opportunities at that level are open to all. The F99/R00 and R01 only require a visa! You'll be that much better at that stage than American citizens because you've had to learn how to work harder and face tough rejections. 

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! 

At least we don't have any results from the tracks we applied to yet, and from people on this forum it seems like a LOT of interviewees haven't heard back yet? I'm getting pretty anxious too since I expected to hear back last week at the latest ? 

At least we don't have any results from the tracks we applied to yet, and from people on this forum it seems like a LOT of interviewees haven't heard back yet? I'm getting pretty anxious too since I expected to hear back last week at the latest ? 

At least we don't have any results from the tracks we applied to yet, and from people on this forum it seems like a LOT of interviewees haven't heard back yet? I'm getting pretty anxious too since I expected to hear back last week at the latest ? 

At least we don't have any results from the tracks we applied to yet, and from people on this forum it seems like a LOT of interviewees haven't heard back yet? I'm getting pretty anxious too since I expected to hear back last week at the latest ? 

At least we don't have any results from the tracks we applied to yet, and from people on this forum it seems like a LOT of interviewees haven't heard back yet? I'm getting pretty anxious too since I expected to hear back last week at the latest ? 

Through email! Doesn't seem personalized, but as someone posted above it sounds like one person is making the final decision and sending out offers, so maybe it'll take a while. And thank you and good luck to you too!!

Through email! Doesn't seem personalized, but as someone posted above it sounds like one person is making the final decision and sending out offers, so maybe it'll take a while. And thank you and good luck to you too!!

Just got an offer from Sinai!

Just got an offer from Sinai!

Just got an offer from Sinai!

I applied to Neurobiology of behavior track and also have no news ? 

Same girl! I though for sure we would hear by today! 

Maybe! I applied to systems and circuits in NB&B and Darcy told me that! 

Could be someone trolling... I never understood the appeal of making other people nervous by posting fake results lol

Could be someone trolling... I never understood the appeal of making other people nervous by posting fake results lol

Yeah I think thats the only program i've heard that truly treat both equally. I heard Sinai might be a bit more international friendly in their admissions as well. 

Yeah I think thats the only program i've heard that truly treat both equally. I heard Sinai might be a bit more international friendly in their admissions as well. 

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!