Jump to content

Dontuse

Members
  • Posts

    88
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Dontuse

  1. your master's work/gpa will definately boost your chances. glad you're taking it on. believe me: they will take note. during the off time? well that depends. it's between working in a lab [these knuckles need cracking!] & going away... like REALLY away to veg before i devote the next 4-6 years of my life to biology. i'm hoping i have the funds [& guts!] to swing with the latter... or at least find a way to schedule both. what am i NOT doing? applying to ANYTHING. [i'm way too tired of this whole process. consider me drained.]
  2. NY'er -[*]BS in Biology from a CUNY -[*]BE in Electrical Engineering from a CUNY -[*]GPA: 3.61 -[*]General GRE scores: V: 690, Q: 800, AWA: 5.0 -[*]Relevant research experience: 1.5y Innate Immunology -[*]Teaching experience: 1.5 y as a TA in calc 1-3 Applied to: -[*]Brown - Molecular, Cellular & Biochemistry -[*]Cambridge - Biological Science [mphil] -[*]Cornell - Geneteics & Development -[*]CUNY GC - Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology -[*]Harvard - Molecular & Cellular Biology -[*]Imperial - Molecular Cell Biology [mphil] -[*]NYU - Developmental Biology & Genetics -[*]Oxford - Biochemistry [mphil] -[*]Warwick - Biological Science (by research) [msci] Interviewed at: -[*]Brown -[*]Cornell -[*]CUNY GC -[*]Harvard -[*]Oxford -[*]Warwick Accepted: -[*]Warwick M.I.A: -[*]NYU (i suspect they rejected me) Rejected by: -[*]Cambridge -[*]Imperial
  3. I applied to G&D at Ithaca. Interviewed & am flicking my thumbs now... [i.want.this.too.badly.]
  4. i'm appauled mrfuga0
  5. Dear Dontuse, We heard your brother is doing some phenominal things in your field of study. Please forward to us his information. Assuming last name & address are the same this will be a simple write-over procedure on your already submitted application. Never Waste Trees, Director of Admissions
  6. i cannot agree with you more seahistory.
  7. whoa chem09. glad you came out with the stash. i certainly feel like nyu rejected me. i applied to dev. gen. was told that they would "get back to us [sic] on or a few days before 15th April." at least i can rest over that news [of delayed rejection]
  8. hahahaha. I was chewing... & then i was laughing. thank you kahlan_amnell. that is something a person would remember in a few years' time indeed. ...And the 'Ultimately' gives me this 'We're not happy this is going on without our permission but facts are fact people... & some of these unBCLers are leading good careers anyway" feeling. Am i alone in that sentiment?
  9. Ha! Good point!
  10. That, my dear liszt85, is overkill. It hurt you & i'm fairly sure Prof. Y isn't all too happy about the connotation there either. Thus BurnSquared. That one is so good I almost don't believe you. Sadly for me, however, that because I received the infamous letter (posted) I totally, totally, unabashedly do. As for the others: PLEASE, i beg you, keep them rolling in. I hadn't expected to have so many other brave souls parting with their own rejections but I am elated to know that I have, indeed, found a comical bunch. I mean, how else will we deal with this trauma? [i.am.going.postal.]
  11. without a doubt! for UG i applied to x>15 schools. (i think it was 17 or maybe even 18! boy was i eager.) in HS i sprinkled my application everywhere &, when i got accepted to places i wasn't serious about their acceptance alone made me sincerely consider going there. needless to say i made my world far too complicated & deserving of no sympathy. a 'YES. We want You' is a very powerful and persuasive thing. for Graduate school i decided to tame it down. i applied to 9. (all of which i LOVE. sure, some more than others but all are genuinely adored.) ...but now i feel like an idiot. although i clearly learned from my past HS experience i realize now that there was still more to learn. my advice [in short]: apply to 10-15 graduate programs... of which you actually, would absolutely without much prodding, want to attend 9-14 [with a good 1-2 safety schools]
  12. okay. so i figure a good way of dealing with rejection is by seeing the funnier side of it. upon the first reading I was overwhelemed with devastation. period. (didn't matter that I was outright accepted by another, better school. the blow was a blow. & my feelings never throbbed so painfully.) whatever. so here i'll post to the world a rejection that I feel is unmatched. [to note: besides the "We've recieved your application" standard email this is the only correspondence from the university]: ... anyone out there can top that? sincerely I hope not.
  13. This whole process is far more excrutiating than I had thought. Actually, I was fairly okay with life until the interviews. Before that it was simply 'dead air' between having submitted my application & hearing from them. Sure, I didn't like the wait but the wait was just nothingness. Now (as in after the interviews)... well now I find myself dreaming of committees convening to decide my fate. One dream I ended up reading a a mailed letter. It came in a 'fat envelope' and had lots of delightfully encouraging sentences. My heart broke, however, upon realizing that the letter did in fact say that I was rejected. Well, actually it said (& I remember it!), "We are fairly positive that we will not be offering you a position at this time."... the whole thing was congratulating me on having had a superb application that seemingly fit in with everything the program is about (don't remember which university sent this to me...). It then went on to boast about the wonderful program of which I will probably not get to participate. :!: How cruel. I woke up teary-eyed. The worst part? That I realized how much this decision --their decision, rather -- will inevitably terminally affect me! (& that that amount is far, super, disturbingly more than what i'd already been experiencing!) That is insane. What's more offputting is that I'd have been wiping blood off with palm leaves before the professor explained the task. I don't like who this has made me... Paranoia looks good on no one.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use