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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

yes thanks so much! hard to give up on those but as you mentioned in another post in the long run it'll be easier to move on rather than dwell on possible waitlist or late-round interviews. congrats on your interview invites and good luck to you this round! hopefully it'll be the last for us both

Really struggling with the lack of responses at this point, the desperation is kicking in now that 'mid-Jan' is officially upon us ? Is anyone still holding out hope for UC Berkeley, San Diego, or LA? I know Cal and SD sent a full round of invites before the holiday and it seemed like LA also sent out a few (?), but curious how others are feeling about these in particular or if there's any more info anyone might have about second round invites or anything like that. don't want to extrapolate too much from previous years' patterns since this seems to be an exceptional application cycle for all programs across the board. Also, if any out there are wishing they'd submitted more places and have resources/willingness to apply outside US, def recommend checking out Canadian and European schools as they tend to have later deadlines or rolling admissions, low or no app fees (Europe esp), and options for MSc or PhD (although MSc students typically don't get tuition or stipends covered). I'm American but went to Canada for undergrad and am applying somewhat broadly, feel free to reach out if you want! here's my status just for fun (stole formatting from @SalamNeuro, ty!): UCSF Neuro (Rejection) | Harvard PiN (Presumed Rejection) | Columbia NBB (Presumed Rejection) | UCB Neuro (Presumed Rejection) | UCSD Neuro (Presumed Rejection) UCLA NSIDP (Pending?) | CSHL Biology PhD (Pending?) | MIT BCS (Pending) | McGill IPN Phd Rotation (Pending) | UBC Neuro MSc (Pending) UToronto Neuro MSc (unsubmitted, due Feb) | Munich Centre for Neuroscience GSN PhD (unsubmitted, due Feb)

hearing rumors that MIT BCS faculty are meeting / met today to finalize interview invites... only rumors though, no other details regarding process or timeline. fingers crossed that these invites come out this week!

Just saw a few Cold Spring Harbor Labs interview invites - if those successful candidates wouldn't mind sharing their application profiles or more details about the invites (dates, with PI only or multi-part session, generic or personalized, etc.?) that would be much appreciated! I'm hoping to nab a neuro spot and it doesn't look like any other neuro CSHL applicants have heard back so looking for any info. Thanks!

for any fellow ucsf hold-outs, it looks like other ucsf programs have been sending out both interview invites and rejections already... does this give us hope or just mean the neuro program can't be bothered to send rejections yet?

ohhh shoot you're right, it was Berkeley that seemed to have two batches of posts go up over last week. ahhh ?

whoops you're right that's my mistake, it wasn't UCSF it was UCBerkeley that had two batches of posts for neuro... even worse ?

Whoops yeah you’re right, it was Berkeley that sent out a few early in the week and then a few more on Friday. Aghhh even worse than I thought ?

same boat, feeling down about UCSF in particular ? seemed like they sent a batch on Tuesday and then another Friday morning... Maybe they're staggering invites so they can plan based on people's chosen dates? lol I'm stretching here but so desperate for any excuse to hope a little longer

Submitted there after randomly seeing a PI’s tweet in the last week of Nov and looking into the phd program. Looks like an amazing program (not sure why but the new laptop for each student sold it for me lol) and many of my advisors and PIs have praised their intensive training courses. I’m also personally inclined towards a generalist approach, so I’m really attracted by the breadth of coursework and range of expertise of the teaching faculty, even though I have pretty particular neuro interests. Didn’t realize it had a reputation for competitiveness... I’d assumed way fewer people would’ve heard of it. Then again we are competing against all sub disciplines in bio for the few spots rather than just neuro, and the app was free and only required one 500word statement, so I could see the applicant pool being similar to other top programs. Would love to know more about your thoughts!