YourNeighborBob
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Just got my interview invite to the UW neuroscience program! Here are some useful information I thought I'd share:
Good luck everyone!
February 8-9
Feb 8: Interview Day – brief overview of program; interviews with faculty; virtual events with faculty & students
Feb 9: Program presentations/orientation; poster session with faculty; graduate student social
February 9-10
Feb 9: Program presentations/orientation; poster session with faculty; graduate student social
Feb 10: Interview Day – brief overview of program; interviews with faculty; virtual events with faculty & students
NOTE: We have tentatively scheduled our interview days to start at 8:00am PST and end at 4:30pm PST. We wish to respect everyone’s time for our interviews, to recognize that for some prospective students they may have time zone differences (since we are on the West Coast), and finally to recognize the real issue of Zoom and gather.town fatigue that may occur. Our goal is to make sure that you have sufficient time and opportunity to learn about our program and interact with our faculty and students but not to make this an arduous process at the expense of your well-being.
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22 hours ago, ManifoldsAreMadeUp said:
Yeah I would not trust any guidebook. The info is outdated probably if not outright incorrect. UW's admissions rate is probably below 5% (that's just a guess) but I actually went there so I'd like to think I have some idea of its competitiveness. It's more competitive than the program I'm currently in (I got in here but not UW) I think and my current program's admissions rate was around 3% or less. UW's program is in the top-10 for the U.S. and my current one was top-20 at the time.
I didn't end up accepting the offer because in the end I realized I would've done better in a major city than a town but I had a great time there so it was a difficult decision. They have a beautiful new science campus funded by Phil Knight that's focused on translational work.
ooof that is very intimidating... UW had my priority because of its location and science, and that I thought it wasn't as competitive. Thanks for the heads-up.
Yes, I have heard of CNBC. I like how the program positions itself. Since the application is concurrent to CMU app, I think I'd apply to both. Thanks again for the rec and advise!
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1 hour ago, ManifoldsAreMadeUp said:
I think you should reorient your rankings a bit. UW is very hard to get into imo harder than Brown or CMU Bio unless by CMU Bio you mean PNC (they have a separate Bio and now Neuro program [led by Barbara Shinn-Cunningham formerly at BU]). You might want to also consider UChicago if you're interested in ML and neuroscience: they are making strong in-roads into this with their new sys/comp neuro building/program led by Brent Doiron. If you're interested in ML and Neuro I'd put a place like Columbia in there too. There are also programs like USC that really specialize in ML and neuroengineering that you might be interested in. UO has a small computational unit and Tim Gardner is there now who co-founded Neuralink who you might know (he used to be at BU). I'm also a bit surprised that NYU is not on your list given your background in network analysis what with Buszaki and Xiaojing Wang among others.
I think your list is slightly top-heavy but not unreasonable depending on the quality of your LoR. Do everything you can to get that manuscript to at least bioRxiv before you submit your apps! Tons of applicants say "first-author manuscript in prep" but that's really meaningless; show committees that you have an actual paper and aren't still "collecting data".
Thank you for the recs! I really appreciate it. I'm surpried that UW is harder than Brown/CMU. I saw on Petersons that UW Neurobiology has an acceptance rate of 30%. Maybe that's not accurate then...
Didn't know that Tim Gardner is now at UO. I talked to Tim Otchy who's in the Gardner lab when I was at BU. He was super supportive and their lab seemed to have a great vibe all around. I might apply to UO just for him. I saw that you were admitted to UO with fellowship. Did you end up accepting the offer?
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Thank you for the recs! I really appreciate it. I'm surpried that UW is harder than Brown/CMU. I saw on Petersons that UW Neurobiology has an acceptance rate of 30%. Maybe that's not accurate then...
Didn't know that Tim Gardner is now at UO. I talked to Tim Otchy who's in the Gardner lab when I was at BU. He was super supportive and their lab seemed to have a great vibe all around. I might apply to UO just for him. I saw that you were admitted to UO with fellowship. Did you end up accepting the offer?
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Undergrad Institution: Boston University
Major(s): Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Math, with honors in Bio
Overall GPA: 3.76
Major GPA: Bio around 3.9 Math around 3.3 (flunked hard in sophmore year when taking grad level math classes with orgo and cellbio... hopefully they'd ignore this)
Type of Student: Asian male
GRE Scores: won't take
Research Experience:
- 2 years undergrad researcher in a neurotherapeutics lab at BU (histology, animal behavior, network analysis)
- 1.5 year as a biostats tech in an immology/genomics lab in a Harvard affiliated hospital (high through sequencing)
- Coauthor on five or six papers on Q1 journals; one first/second author paper in preparation
Other Relevant Experience:
- hired as an outside consultant for more network analysis
- coding + server managing experience
Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
Dean's List + a scholarship + honors thesis (?)
Applying to Where:
Lottery: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, CIT, UCSF, Princeton
Stand a chance: CMU Bio/CNBC, UCSD, Brown, Duke
Safety but would gladly go: UW, WUSTL
LoRs: 2 from past PIs and 1 from adviser. My PIs are very respected/well-known in their fields.
I would really appreciate any comments on my school list! I am having a hard time positioning myself. I made the tentative list based on the admission percentages. I am interested in applying ML in brain signal processing.
2022 Neuroscience PhD Applicants and Admissions Results
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Thanks! Time to read up on the professors again haha. And, yes, no word on that.