WaywardVulcan

@Bestluck2022 I applied to NYU Vilcek but have nor heard back. I think someone posted in the results page that they received an interview invite through email Does anyone know if Rockefeller, NYU and UCLA send their emails all at once or in batches?

Thanks... I will definitely write to them next year then and ask... I didn't know that was a possibility. Hopefully it will help.

Guys I'm an international applying to biomedical programs with focus on genetics mostly.. I didn't receive any invitations to interview yet :S I would appreciate if you could take a look at my profile and shed some ligh on what's holding me back/ what could work on to make a stronger application in the future: ---- UG - Medicine at a Federal School in Brazil (Pass - I have an average of 7.04/10 for my graded courses, but nearly half my school hours were granted an ungraded pass mark). PG - Residency in Medical Genetics, in Brazil 3 years (Pass) Research experience - combined 6 months undergraduate (1 summer research full time + several months part time at home institution): >2 years part time postgraduate (equal to about 8 months full time) Work experience - nearly 2 years at a clinical diagnostics lab + clinical experience Publications - One 2nd co-author, one in the middle of the author list (both large journals of genetics). One book chapter accepted for publication Presentation - 2 posters at international conferences LORs - 3 good letters from my professors in Brazil, 2 academic, 1 professional GRE General: 170 verbal / 161 quantitative reasoning / 6 writing TOEFL: 119/120 Other: I contacted potential supervisors in all the schools I applied to, to discuss research interests and availability of places in their lab for rotating students next year. Got positive replies from them, but the contact was brief (basically 1 e-mail from me and 1 reply from them) ----- My teachers/professors don't have any experience with applications to international programs, so they couldn't offer any advice about which schools to apply or what to do to improve my chances... I would apreciate if some of you guys could help me out in this regard. My applications: Applied: Harvard BBS, Harvard Chemical Biology, UCLA Bioscience, NYU Vilcek, Rockefeller, MIT Biology Interview: So far not a single one

These are great news Thanks for sharing guys _\\//

I applied to Harvard BBS and Chemical Biology but didn't get any emails yet. A little heartbroken now. I really thought I had a chance :(

I am an international student considering applying to a PhD to start on the fall of 2022. I am at the first step (selecting universities) and I was wondering what criteria did you guys use to choose which universities/programs to apply. Did you narrow your focus at the beggining of the process or did you choose schools that had several research lines that might be interesting to you? In other words did you start your applications with a broad interest such as "genetics and genomic medicine", or did you narrow it down at the start to something like "understanding the RAS-MAPkinase pathway"?