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Thank you! You do need to meet a minimum GRE requirement (especially for the Quantitative part), which is ~ ≥ 50th percentile. I'm not sure about the GPA, though from my experience, my overall wasn't very stellar but I had a good personal reason for it (my Biology GPA was good, though). I made up for my flaws by focusing on the more important aspects of the application: research experience, publications+manuscripts, stellar letters of recommendation, and a great personal statement. I've been a research technician for 2 years, and I think that really helped me show them I am mature enough and very prepared to go to grad school. I was very impressed by their program during my interview/visit, which helped me decide to accept their offer. If you have any more questions, feel free to send me a message! Good luck with your application! /EDIT: Anyone else going to head down to Columbia in the fall?

Anybody headed down to Columbia, SC in August? Have you looked at apartments yet? I've decided to join the integrated biomedical science PhD program. Would love to compare notes about housing!

I got info from a UNC prof that it looks like BBSP still needs to get interviewers set up for the subsequent interview weekends. I'm also considering myself to be on the BBSP waitlist. I suppose having at least 1 prof from the department 100% willing to take you in wouldn't help much if you have to go through the admissions committee first. But yeah, if they wanted to reject us in the first place, they should have told us a loooong time ago.

I just submitted all my applications this morning, right on the January 15th deadline. I know that was just wrong to drag it all out, but my last LOR writer has not confirmed which email I should put on my form for the longest time. /wrist