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  1. brkkmnkk
    Hello, as the title suggests, I applied to the BIF PhD fellowship on February 2025. They have 3 application dates per year, I wanted to know if anyone has gotten it or at least went through the process in the past years? Thanks.
  2. brkkmnkk
    In my limited experience, people made decisions on faculty they want to work with. Some programs have multiple faculty with the exact same interests as those students (important if one faculty isn’t accepting more students or whether your personalities don’t go well together). Some other’s had other responsibilities as having long term commitments to other people. Thats about all the help I can give.
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    Do these schools have open houses? Since they're upper tier, I'd expect them to. I recommend visiting them and getting a sense of the atmosphere, as it helped other accepted students in my program to completely change their minds.
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    Usually it is till April 15th that you have to give a final decision to a school (your acceptance letter should state by when you should get back to them). Adcoms are aware that if they accept you, chances are you are accepted from multiple places. That’s why they do the invitation to the campus to sell you the program one last time before you make a decision. If you can, just try to make that decision sooner than later, because your denial of an offer means someone else gets accepted and the earlier that is, the better.
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    Thank you, I wish we were in this boat together Best of luck with your other options.
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    Omg!!! I got into Weill Cornell…
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    @mgmgmgm someone posted a weill cornell acceptance for BCMB! Wonder if we'll also hear today.
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    Yikes, so next week might be it... Best of luck to us both and others who applied here.
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    The wait is killing me
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    Anyone here who interviewed with Weill Cornell? Do you guys know anything about when we might hear back? The final interview is Thursday. That's all I know.
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    For instance, I'm international and lived in many countries growing up. I was asked why I moved so often, how those experiences shaped me, and why did I decide to move to the US. Languages I speak, where my family is right now, these were all asked "casually" in two of my interviews. This is a relatively unique situation given the common applicant, so if your application has something that would be different than that of a regular applicant, this will come up for sure. If it doesn't, bring it up yourself in a positive manner.
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    Weill Cornell
  13. brkkmnkk
    I had 4 interviews for 1 school. All 4 faculty were amazing people, but especially 2/4, I was bombarded with questions and had to act/think confidently. So I agree that you should expect anything.
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    Congratulations!!! I'm sure you will do great in your interviews. Some common questions I've been asked so far: Why us? What do you want to do with your degree after? What is your current project? [Usually this is the majority of the interview when the conversation is about you], what have you done so far to approach your goals in phd? [I wanted to combine computational stuff with neuroscience, so they asked me what I did till now to prepare], tell us about yourself., and maybe there are some questions specific to your program. Best of luck!
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    The important thing to keep in mind is, if you have multiple acceptances and have decided on a program, let the other ones know as soon as you can so peeps from waitlists get a chance.
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    Isn’t there a decision deadline around mid-April for most programs? I doubt anyone can force anyone’s hand to make a decision this early on.
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    Do you think it's a good idea to send an email about it? The faculty I met said I can ask if I have any questions.
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    Anyone know when results usually come after interviews? I forgot to ask during the interview. Is it all released at once or is it rolling?
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    For me, my interviews are 45 mins long for a school, which became severely difficult to maintain a discussion after being done talking about myself. As a precaution, I started looking up their early on works which might have shaped their research path and mentioning it to ask some questions from there. Once they hit you with the “do you have any questions about the …” ask them politely to talk more in depth about their research. They give elaborate details, and someone else suggested, pay extreme attention to things that you find intriguing, say something you might know about the topic, and ask their opinion/whether it has any relevance. I find prepping 3/4 questions ahead of time helps a lot, but in your case, look at their earlier stuff to understand them and just show that you’re open to learn about science thats not your main focus.
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    Has anyone had bad experiences during their interviews? Im trying to imagine what gets people eliminated.
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    For UMiami, my friend who works in my lab got an interview too in the upcoming weeks. Guess he didn't need the preliminary cuz he works here as a lab tech at UMiami.
  22. brkkmnkk
    Rankings for grad programs are slightly nebulous because there's different components to it. Maybe looking at overall graduate rankings of a school is better than just a program within. Most faculty are intertwined with multiple programs within a university, and rankings depend on three main concepts: how much money do the PI's bring in, how many well established PI's are there within a program, how much monetary donations does a program get.
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    Hey guys, can anyone share their interview experience so far. For my one interview at Cornell, I have 4 different people on 4 different days, all on Zoom. I am a little anxious so anything will be great.
  24. brkkmnkk
    I applied, it's my current undergraduate institution. All I know rn is that they are still reviewing applications. They reached out to me about an issue w my application which got resolved just today. Idk if its rolling or whether they have sent any invites before.
  25. brkkmnkk
    For my one interview at Weill, my chances of getting in are 28% (70 spots for 250 interviewees) though this combines 5 phd programs, not specifically for neuroscience. I was told there were more than 900+ applicants this year. As someone else said, it depends on the program.
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