jek4zy

Me too!

Yeah, I received an acceptance email about a week after my interviews (second open house). The email was from the program director and addressed to me, but pretty generic. No official admissions letter or mention of one coming though, just an 'admissions reply form' attached. This was about a week ago and some of my interviewers have reached out in the past couple days, so I assumed they sent out all initial offers and notified the faculty of these students...but I also remember the program coordinator saying she would send an email to all accepted students at some point so we can talk to each other and that hasn't happened yet.

Aren't the overall acceptance rates a lot lower for international students? I've also heard some schools send international and domestic students invites separately. I received a BS this past May and took this year off to continue doing research & apply to grad schools (taking a year off after UG was huge for me, looking back at this time last year I would not have had nearly as strong research experience or accomplishments to show for them and would have been a much weaker applicant in my opinion). Publication wise, I have 1 third-author paper published, 1 first-author paper under review, and 1 first-author paper in-progress (briefly discussed in SOP but never mentioned in the publication sections of applications). Hope this helps!

I literally just heard back from Harvard BIG so I wouldn't stress yet, the email was also somewhat personalized since it was addressed to me specifically and had an attachment letter also addressed to me.

I did biomedical engineering with a CS minor undergrad and am interested in genetics & bioinformatics for grad school. So I applied to different types of programs at each school depending on their program options, faculty in each department, curriculums, and recommendations from my current advisors and POIs. Here's my current status. UPenn GCB [interview invitation 12/8] Harvard BIG [interview invitation 12/23] MIT CSB MIT Biology Stanford Genetics JHU BME