seunghwane

Sure Caltech undergrads are weird, but are they more weird than MIT undergrads? :wink:

I just accepted Caltech's offer. I would really love to take a look at the student apartments but I didn't get to. Maybe I'll do a third visit?

As long as we're talking about neuroscience, I would not choose Chicago over UCSF, no matter how specific your interests are. There are a few schools I would choose over UCSF, but Chicago isn't one of them.

Yeah if I were you, I'd not go to a school that had a bunch of recruits visiting with their daddies and mommies. Seriously, WTF?

Harvard has accepted people really long time ago.

How much money is $32000 in NYC compared to $27000 (annual) in LA if housing only costs 700 dollars/month?

So have you decided?

Unless you're interested in cognitive science, I'm not sure what is so great about Doug Hofstadter. He is a writer (pulitzer prize is not even a science prize) and definitely not a neurobiologist (he has 0 publications in pubmed). Also that ranking is very flawed, as it has arbitrary weight factors and only 4 out of the top 10 would generally be considered to be among the top neuroscience programs by most neuroscience PI's. In addition, I'm not even sure how they got a lot of these numbers. The amount of money HHMI gives out is not even publicly disclosed and many of the top schools have many neuroscience labs that are funded heavily by HHMI, which gives the most generous sums of money.

So far: 8 interviews, 3 acceptance, 3 non-interview rejections, 5 rejections total

There is no primate facility at UCSD. I don't think there is one at Salk either. For primates, I think Bill Newsome's lab at Stanford is probably the best bet but not for immunological questions in the CNS. Carla Shatz at Stanford, however, is a great person for that, as her lab first suggested the role of MHC class I in the CNS. I don't know if Caltech has primate facility but I know Paul Patterson works on immunological questions in the CNS. Finally UC Davis has one person who works on a topic EXTREMELY pertinent- David Amaral. He has shown in studies with monkeys and humans that autism is caused by antibody-mediated (IgG) loss of GABAergic neurons. He would probably be a perfect person to work for but I would not go to any school based on one person. EDIT: SALK DOES HAVE MONKEYS BUT I DO'NT KNOW IF THEY DO NEUROSCIENCE EXPTS IN THEIR MONKEY FACILITY.

So far: 8 interviews, 1 acceptance, 1 non-interview rejections

It was me. See above. Did you hear back from any schools yet?

I just heard from UCSF and MIT.

11 applications 8 interviews 3 non-interview rejections 7 acceptances after interviews 4 rejections total So far: 5 interviews, 1 non-interview rejections

I just heard my first rejection from Columbia. After I emailed the admission office about the interview dates, they told me that I was not one of the people who received emails about the invitation, implying that I was rejected. First one sure hurts.