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  1. 5 hours ago, space8 said:

    Hey! I'm so sorry to hear that. This is my second time applying, so I feel you. It'll be alright. I wanted to ask, how do you know that you were rejected from Northwestern? Did they send out rejections or did you ask? Thanks.

    Yup they sent out a (seemingly personalized) email to me. With my name on the email and I’m the only receiver 

  2. 4 minutes ago, OldFire Mamba said:

    The Dean of Admissions at Mount Sinai told us in a webinar in the application season that all applications are pooled together and "ranked" based on everything (LOR, CV, publications, academic record, research experience, etc) and they set a cut off value based on how many interview invitations they want/can send and they didnt discriminate by country, sex, gender, background or anything. But, seeing the results page 90% of accepted students are american in most universities and institutes, so they accept more US applicants than international applicants so I dont think thats necessarily true. I have no problem in giving preference to students from their own country, but they should specify it in the admissions requirements so we know the probability of being accepted is lower, even if we have better cv than US applicants.

    I mean what the Dean said might be true, the question is how they "rank" things. It could simply be that US degrees are ranked higher than degrees outside of the US, or LoR from a US professor is ranked higher than a LoR from other countries. It's a bummer for ppl who studied outside of the US, but totally understandable.

  3. 32 minutes ago, Just_Alice said:

    This whole situation is a bit sad... well... too bad if it is true and international applicants are not really considered by most schools.

    Yeah...my biggest fear now is that they received too much applications that they decided to only look at internationals who has a US degree in the first round. I'm currently working at a top5 school in the US as a lab RA but guess that doesn't help much.

  4. 28 minutes ago, Just_Alice said:

    About Sinai: I did not get an interview invite and I did not get a rejection either (I am an international applicant). Do you think all the invites have already been sent out? Is it possible that they will send invites to international applicants later?

    International here having the same question for many other programs (e.g. Harvard, Yale, NYU...etc). Hearing ppl saying these programs have sent out invitations but barely see a international without US degree (‘I’) report on grad cafe. Welp could also be that these schools aren’t giving many chances to ppl w/o US degrees.

  5. 34 minutes ago, NeuroKween said:

    Intl student here with a MSc from UCL and a BA from the US. Been a research tech at NYU for 2.5 years now. Only applied to 8 schools.. very risky move ?  regretting it now haha. 

    Don't you worry! I believe having a US degree and MS from UCL makes a big difference, not to mention 2.5 yrs tech experience at NYU:) NYU is actually on my list, would love to do research and experience life at the NYC (I'm currently at the bay area). 

  6. Thanks so much for this thread! I am a international applicant w/ a BS degree from east asia and currently a RA in a top 5 school in the US. 
    I thought that it would be really competative for international applicants so I applied to a total of 16 programs... basically all the top schools you can name.

    Haven't heard anything and super anxious too. Fingercrossed we all get some good news before Christmas :( 

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