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But yesterday (January 16) was a Federal State holiday if I am not wrong. So I guess we should expect several interview invites to come from today (Jan 17) onwards.

@Max_ZNThanks for sharing your interview experience. While it will not be helpful for Rice as they are done perhaps with shortlisting all the applicants. By the way @crunch_numbers, I just saw someone posted getting accepted into UMich Biostat Master's program who initially applied to their PhD Program. Maybe we should hear more in the weeks to come.

Congratualtions @LWAN for Brown Biostats, and Congratulations @mtob for UNC. I don't think there is any doubt that you should select UNC over Rice if you get full funding. I did not know that the Rice interview will be like this. Well, for me things are not going good. Started journey with a rejection and yet to hear from many schools which otherwise have sent several interview invites like Rice, Boston, UC Irvine. Anyone who is still waiting to hear from Rice? Given that they sent some more interview invites on Jan first week I guess there might be one or two more batches, but I'm not sure. On the other hand, what I know about Boston is that they normally send interview to a small pool of students during December itself. And, if we don't hear anything it seems like a bad sign as we will either hear nothing till a long time when they finally sends rejection. Same with Harvard Biostats and JHU Biostats. Boston, despite its not so high ranking, I guess gets a lots of applicants because of the location and tie up with industries. So, I heard many people getting JHU got rejected from BU. Now, I have completely forgot that I even applied to BU.

I think they don't give all acceptances alltogether, it's is kind of in batches. During Fall 2021, I know a couple of applicants one of whom got offer on January 12, two got wailisted on Jan 12 and one got offer on Jan 18. But, everytime I see international acceptances I am really freaking out anticipating a rejection ?. Just now, when I checked gradcafe I have seen one more international acceptances on Jan 14 (today). I don't know when they started sending the offers last year but there was a large pool of applicants who were rejected on January 26-27. By the way, if any of you are domestic I guess domestic acceptances normally comes very fast (many time even in late December)

Also, anyone heard from University of Minnesota Biostatistics (PhD) ?

Your GRE score is not bad. Mine is much worse than you (Q<160, V<148, AWA-3.5). Still I submitted it to a couple of schools where GRE was mandatorily needed. Yes, I avoided sending it to schools where it was optional since it is not going to enhance anything to my profile (might rather affect negatively). Unless the school explicitly mention like "We need Quant>165", I don't think sending this score is going to harm you. I know some schools like Vanderbilt requiring 75th percentile which you have anyway achieved. Even if you reappear and get a little bit high I don't think it is going to drastically change anything.

I don't think UMich Biostats has started giving offers. By the way, did anyone receive interview invite from UC Irvine?

Some new updates are as follows:- UPenn Biostat has started giving rejections. Harvard Biostat has started giving interview, open day invites. I can see some domestic acceptances for Minnesota Biostat as expected. Some new Rice interviews are popping up.

Thanks. When will be the interview by the way? It will be very much helpful if you share your interview experiences after the interview. ?

Thanks @JeroldJJ for the information. Best wishes to you two for your interview.

By the by, @Max_ZN, @JeroldJJ:- Were you contacted by the graduate admission committee or it's director for the interview? Or, some individual faculty member emailed you? If latter is the case, did you mention him in your SoP? Also, any of you indicated your interest in the Joint Biostatistics program with MD Anderson? I actually tailored my SoP for this only.

Here is the document for the interview experiences :- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1epem4r5loco8ZZwJNodjZun2JReXNXIm0RiTPBeiq6s/edit

Okay. Thanks. I believe it should be mostly informal with trying to gauge why you want to join them, what has attaracted you most and so on. Someone told me that some Stat depts conduct interview to assess the English communication skills of international applicants. You should also have some legitimate questions to them (sometimes some depts just ask "do you have something to ask us?") like how is it to be a PhD student in your department, average completition time, quals procedure, etc. You should have definitely written names of some professor in your SoP; so their research interests should have definitely impressed you. So, I think it will be not be problem to answer the first few questions by telling that you like Prof X's research; he works on Y & Z and I also worked on this topic, etc. etc. Sometimes dept.s also try to determine your fit with them (it's more common in Biostat). So, I can't say exactly what's going to happen as I will be not in the interview committee ?, but some convex combination of the above possibilities might happen with a high probability (though may not be almost surely ). Give me some time to find out an old document about students' interview experience which might be helpful for you.

@JeroldJJand @Max_ZN, congratulations on your interview. May I know when did you all submit your applications? I also applied to Rice and submitted on Dec 1. Rice was one of my target schools I really wanted to attend, but it seems like they have sent interview invites to the top few candidates. Last two years, they normally sent interview around January last or February. If they send invites to all at a time, I don't think I should keep hope to get in ?

Heartiest congratulations @nmc22 on your offer from UNC and interview invite from Dartmouth. I don't know anything about the latter, but UNC Biostats is undoubtedly one of the best offers I think you are going to have in your hand (provided it comes with a full funding, which I believe you'd get). I have heard it is a large department, but it is one of the Biostats depts (the other two being UWashington and JHU) which will provide you a good grounding for doing methodological work later on. So, I think you should highly consider it. Sorry for making the confusion regarding JHU. Yes, they normally give invites on January 2nd/3rd week. I actually wanted to mean people started getting some kind of news from these schools.

Just found in the results thread that someone got interview invitation from Boston Biostatistics. Anyone else who have also heard from them? Do they send all the interview invites alltogether?

So, I am starting this thread maintaining each year's tradition. All the prospective applicants for Fall 2023 intake (master's + PhD) in Biostat/Stat are encouraged to take part and post updates about interviews and offers. Spread information about the thread as much as possible amongst your fellow applicants. By the way, some biostat interview invitations have started appearing in the results thread, mainly from UPenn, JHU and NYU. By this time, Boston also should have sent some interview invitations for Biostat PhD. Anybody heard from them? or, eagerly waiting like me? Also, I guess Minnesota should accept some doemstic applicants (possibly come out in this week) if we see last few years' trends.