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NeuroscienceTheoretically replied to mccourt678's topic in Biology
Yes I know that CNUP has invited someone for interview. No, I don't believe or have ever seen US inviting international applicants at a different time. Administratively, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do so: the committee decides who they want to interview and it's easiest to give only one set of names to administrators who correspond with applicants to book flights and such.- 69 replies
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Not me, but a friend. I hear they are rolling invites out in waves in order of when the apps were received.- 69 replies
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NeuroscienceTheoretically replied to mccourt678's topic in Biology
I mean, if you have a co-first in Nat. Comms. and a strong GPA with a decent amount of experience, I think you should add more highly-selective schools; you don't need safeties. You should think about adding Harvard (Haim Sompolinsky, Kanaka Rajan, and Cengiz Pehlevan), Columbia (Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Larry Abbott, Ken Miller), NYU (SueYeon Chung, XJ Wang, Eero Simoncelli), and Princeton (Bialek, Brody, Engel, Pillow) etc.- 69 replies
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I would say you're going to want to look into masters programs in the U.S. or Europe. I know a lot of international students and most of them had to do that before their PhD if they didn't do undergrad in U.S./Europe. Your GPA is unfortunately probably too low for most every PhD program and most programs will want to see that you got a degree from a western institution before giving you a shot. They don't really know how to assess Indian institutions outside of maybe IIT even if you did have like a 4.0 GPA.- 69 replies
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I think it differs a lot school to school. Some will have nothing other than a few emails to the new cohort and events when you arrive. Others have summer workshops that bring the new students together. Earliest you're likely to have communication as a cohort is Apr. 15 because of the deadline.
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I mean, you should fill every spot if they're prioritized. Makes the admins job easier and you'll ensure you know who you're interviewing with. If you get paired with a rando prof, that's a wasted opportunity.
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I think that's terrible advice honestly. Non-committal or vague sounds like you're hiding that you don't really want to go there and are just interviewing for fun/practice (in previous years, students would do it for the food and flight). I received two fellowships attached to two of my offers because I acted very interested (which I was) and never intimated that I was non-committal. I got those fellowships (they had one or two to give out each year) because I was on the high-end of their typical interviewees but also was interested enough they knew I wasn't a lost cause. Programs WANT students who are interested! Acting like you're too good for MIT isn't really a winning strategy. There's always a bigger fish when you're at the top. Every year there's some absolutely bonkers students that have crazy shit like a Nature/Science/Cell first author. Besides, which will they have an easier time rejecting, the student who is ambivalent about their program or the student whose dream it's been to go to MIT? If you don't believe me, then take it from my friend on BCS recruitment this year: "we like people who really want to come here". It might be MIT but remember that they're still competing against Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, etc so they're still concerned about getting you to accept as well. I'm at a highly-coveted (but not as high as those) school and our top criterion during interviews is "what's their level of interest?". Acting too good for the other party doesn't work in dating and it doesn't work in grad admissions either.
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Ah this is right my bad I misinterpreted what I was told by a friend on BCS recruitment. I was just told there would be two events (the first virtual and second in-person) but I clarified that only the first is an interview. As a little tip for a reward, I've been told that BCS strongly prefers those that make MIT known as their top choice. Makes sense given that lots of their applicants have good options especially with a peer institution (Harvard PiN) nearby. In the year that I interviewed, all my schools had an offer rate of about half or less. Granted, they offered those who were top of the interviewees with the highest levels of interest (i.e. no offers to those with "better offers" and only those below that that indicated the interviewing school as their "top choice"). Lots of jockeying for good students and yield protection for those considered "out of reach".
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It is extremely significant to get an interview; you can't get in without one! However, many schools are changing the way they interview so no one quite knows how to assess it. Traditionally, an interview was only in-person and they would have offers dependent on yield rate. If the school had low yield, they might offer everyone they interview; if they were high yield, they might have offers for only half or less. Post-pandemic, schools have realized that students are willing to do virtual interviews so some are now exclusively virtual which allows for many more invites than applicants. Other schools (like MIT this year) are doing two rounds: virtual first round and an in-person second round. A place like MIT (or other comparably tiered school) is high-yield so you will probably have about as many offers as there are in the incoming class size which is similar year-to-year. Admits this year have been extraordinarily competitive so top schools are seeing sub-5% admissions rates
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