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5 minutes ago, T suppressors said:
I meet criteria #4, still got rejected from Sinai without an interview
Dont know if it is Sinai for sure. These 4 criteria are only for screening. You probably got rejected by the Adcom in the next step of reviewing fit (SOP, CV and LORs). Maybe none of the faculty you matched with are taking students this cycle.
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6 minutes ago, devcby said:
Rejected from Yale MCGD yesterday. Kind of figured it was coming, but still a tad surprised because going into the applications I thought it was the program that fit me the best ? I guess sometimes that's how it goes, no complaints though. Congrats to all who got interviews!!
With 7 interviews from top programs, you are in a great spot. BTW, I just saw several Harvard BBS acceptance posts in Results today.
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3 minutes ago, Prefrontalvortex said:
I wish they were more clear than this. It sounds like they did send out all the interview invites, since they said the timeline for the application process is correct. The fact that they said applications are held on to makes me believe there’s a chance that a few additional people may get an interview? I don’t want to get my hopes up though.
I think the sender of this email is insinuating that there is a wait list.
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Is this possibly the Sinai process?
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2 minutes ago, MyStomachHurts said:
Thanks so much for your two cents, it really helps. And as someone who used to work in a lab at Harvard Med, I 100% agree with your statement hahahaha
For what it’s worth, UTSW is listed as a top 30-35 program in this poll:
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4 minutes ago, Irene39 said:
Oh, Sorry about that. It is University of Maryland Baltimore.
You mean UMBC (Baltimore County)?
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3 hours ago, Irene39 said:
Hi everyone,
I am not sure it is right page to ask this.
Applied to several schools and got the interview invitation for these schools. How do I choose which school to go? What are the criteria you guys might consider when you choose the program?
For BU PiBS, I applied for Genetics and Genomics.
For UMD Bisi, I applied for MOCB (molecular and cellular biology).
For UMB, I applied for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
All the interviews are first and second week of Feb.
which university is UMB?
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20 minutes ago, PhDBound123 said:
They do not have an interview date on Jan21/22 but they do have one this upcoming week so it could be true that they're waiting for the second round of interview.
I think so. Jan 14/15 interviews are among the earliest across programs. Jan28/29 are more “average” in terms of timeframe. Therefore, programs that have 2 interview dates in January can afford to look at applicants of both groups before they extend any offers. Not sure programs that have their first interview on Jan 28/29 or in Feb will wait to complete multiple rounds of interviews before extending any offers. Unless you are an extremely highly regarded program or very small (~ 10 slots), you cannot gain mindshare amongst the top candidates unless you make offers to them by 1st week in Feb.
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4 hours ago, helpert said:
I was also wondering, I interviewed with them during their session last week (Jan 14/15), but haven’t heard anything.
Did they have another interview date on Jan 21/22? If so, they might wait to get interview feedback on that group as well and send offers to some from the combined group and wait until the final interview date to decide on the remaining.
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50 minutes ago, PhDBound123 said:
Same here. Hopefully soon.
Did they have another interview date on Jan 21/22? If so, they might wait to get interview feedback on that group as well and send offers to some from the combined group and wait until the final interview date to decide on the remaining.
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4 hours ago, Zoey_q said:
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I hope so, but if people reject wouldn’t it make sense for the program admission committee to send admission offers to people who they had already interviewed (that’s only my analogy)??
But hey let’s stay optimistic because I really don’t wanna repeat the application process it was such a stressful time ?
Yes but many of them that interviewed may have accepted other offers.
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36 minutes ago, Elephantonly said:
Not to bum everyone out, but I don’t think being waitlisted for interviews is very likely for many programs. Programs interview sometimes 2x more people than they send offers to, and send offers to more people than they expect will matriculate. They have waitlists for after the interview in case their yield is too low than they expected.
My heart goes out to all who didn’t get interviews, but just know that it’s not personal and this cycle is much more competitive than any other year, sometimes these things are just a cr*pshoot.
I think you are correct but the tricky part is estimating the "yield" correctly. Due to applicants applying to so many places, I think some programs could get their yield wrong significantly. For example, if there are 20 slots and they extend offers to 40 thinking 50% will accept but only 30% accept, then they have room for 8 off the wait list.
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6 hours ago, Anxiously Hopeful said:
Hey fellow neuroscience applicants!
Has anyone received any information about the schedule for the 2-day virtual interview event at Johns Hopkins University next week?
Also, are people still expecting to hear back from NYU and UCLA neuroscience graduate programs??
I think there are several on gradcafe who applied to NYU Neuroscience but haven't heard anything. NYU Neuro did send interview invites around Christmas but they are in a dogfight with Columbia, Sinai, UConn, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, UPenn etc. for students and I think they are holding back sending out rejections this year until they are at least past interviews so that they can gauge how many acceptances they will get. Think about it, what do they get by sending out rejections now versus in March? Some universities send out rejections in Dec and early Jan so that the rejected students can apply to other programs that have later deadlines (Jan 15, Feb 1 etc.) but there is no benefit for them other than getting applicant goodwill.
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23 minutes ago, capa_detated said:
same boat, feeling super down but you know what they say about misery...
fingers and toes crossed that @sirtuingirl is right about waitlists. on the other hand i'd expect even wait-listed folks would be hearing something? or do wait-list interviews happen after an entire round of interview and offer letters? not sure how this works
There are 2 kinds/rounds of wait lists. One is when people reject interviews because they have received too many and some off the wait list will be invited. I don't know how many this year belonged to this kind. The next round where there is movement off the wait lists is when admission offers are declined and those programs cannot fill their slots. Most programs will assume that a certain % of offers will get declined based on past cycles but there is a good chance that those assumptions will prove to be inaccurate due to the unique nature of this cycle. In that case, they might interview and make offers even in March.
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21 minutes ago, Zoey_q said:
Anyone else did didn’t get any interview invitations at all??? Please tell me I’m not alone ?
I’m super bummed. I had everything lined up as I’ve I was gonna start grad school next fall, plus I have extensive research experience, first author publications, good gpa, relevant undergrad course work..
Is there still hope at this point ☹️
I don’t know what went wrong. I would really like to work on what I failed to meet to be stronger applicant in the future..
There is hope because most programs have gotten a lot more applicants than last year and hence review of applications in some places is taking longer. Also, people this year have applied to more programs than prior years because they kept hearing that this cycle is more competitive. Hence, more admission offers will be declined and more people will get in off the wait list.
Which programs/universities did you apply to? Are you an American student, International Student studying at a US university or International student studying at international university?
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8 hours ago, scientist1313 said:
Hi, I know that a lot of schools notify acceptance with a call from a faculty member you interviewed with. I was wondering if it is significant which faculty member calls you, or if it is more random. Does anyone know? I'm just curious
Prior to applying, you may have contacted a specific faculty member who may have supported your application behind the scenes but he/she may not have been among those that interviewed you. In that case, would it still be someone you interviewed with calling you or the person you initially contacted? It could also be the person that called you inviting you to the interview?
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16 hours ago, stem_ness said:
Does anyone have a good sense of what is discussed during interviews with PIs? Obviously they want to talk about your past experiences a bit, but what else? Classic interview questions like "Why this program" and "Why a PhD", or others?
It depends on who you are talking to. You will most likely be interviewed by faculty who are conducting research in your area of interest as well as faculty whose research is in a completely different area. Both will want to know a bit about your research but usually the latter won’t spend much time talking about their research. They will mostly tell you things about the town (public transportation, bike friendliness, restaurants, festivals etc) or ask you some of the standard questions like why PhD, why that program/school, what is your career goal etc. You will also get to talk individually with a grad student which again won’t be much about science.
I think majority of the students will answer questions like why PhD well and they probably have heard the same thing again and again, just in different words. But they still ask you these questions because they want to see at least a basic level of preparedness on your part, which is somewhat indicative of your success in a graduate program.
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12 minutes ago, ndd23123 said:
Some of those acceptances within a department are for their MS program.
I see...then I think you are probably correct at around 50% but it seems like some departments offer to a higher % of interviewees than others.
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13 minutes ago, ndd23123 said:
Apparently I can't do math. I believe approximately half of those received an offer. They usually make ~150-170 offers for a class of 80-90. They will probably tell you these things at the interview.
I added up the data on Peterson’s, they made 204 offers and 90 matriculated. They make an offer to around 60% of the interviewees.
looks like there is a large variation across departments on offer and matriculation percentage.
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1 hour ago, icsyr said:
UW Seattle (MCB) is interviewing 72 people over the course of two weekends, which, according to their invite email, is 12% of applicants. If you quickly do the math, that is 600 applicants.
Every interview webpage i've seen says they received a record number of applicants this year, but who knows what that really means.
Do you have an idea when Brown will send out decisions to those that interviewed on Friday?
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1 hour ago, ndd23123 said:
Last year UMich received a little over 1300 applications and made 440 interview offers. This is on their website. I'd be very surprised if they're cutting the number of interviews by more 75% this year, especially when they don't have to fly people into Ann Arbor anymore.
https://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/education/phd-programs/about-pibs
they did 341 interviews last year and matriculated 90. What is unknown is how many of the 341 received offers?
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1 hour ago, ndd23123 said:
Last year UMich received a little over 1300 applications and made 440 interview offers. This is on their website. I'd be very surprised if they're cutting the number of interviews by more 75% this year, especially when they don't have to fly people into Ann Arbor anymore.
Can you please post the link. I couldn’t find that on the PIBS website
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1 hour ago, helpert said:
I'm surprised about PIBS too if they really only invited 100 applicants to interview. I mean, I think that's good for us interviewing to know they probably expect to extend admissions to most, if not all, interviewees. But according to their FAQ their average cohort size is ~90 -- I wonder if they are planning on a smaller cohort size this year (I mean they can't seriously expect more than 50% admitted to matriculate right?)
I also think 100 interviews is less. I would have expected it to be at least 150. I read somewhere else that most top 20 “large” programs have invited around 12% of their applicants for interview. That supports a number higher than 150.
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2 minutes ago, Neuromantic said:
THIS HAPPENED TO ME, TOO.
Remember, UNC gets $150-$200K from application fees.....I am not saying they are blindly encouraging everyone to apply but more the merrier. It can fund administrative positions.
2021 Neuroscience PhD Applicants and Admissions Results
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140 interviews, 100 acceptances