2020 Neuroscience PhD Applicants and Admission Results

[zebrafishfan]

Does anyone know if Mount Sinai is done sending out interviews? I saw some entries on the results page. 

[D2R]

27 minutes ago, zebrafishfan said:

Does anyone know if Mount Sinai is done sending out interviews? I saw some entries on the results page. 

I really hope they are not but it seems like they pretty much sent out at once from past years...:(

[neuro101]

Does anyone know if phone interviews are generally from No Caller ID numbers?

[phd2020]

Any suggestions for telling a school that you aren't available to interview the weekend they suggested because you already accepted another interview offer for that weekend?

[gliagirl]

47 minutes ago, phd2020 said:

Any suggestions for telling a school that you aren't available to interview the weekend they suggested because you already accepted another interview offer for that weekend?

Ask them if they have alternative interview weekends and if not, ask if they'll let you do videochats. I ran into this issue when I applied and the school I was less excited about offered me the option of doing Skype interviews with faculty I was interested in.

[gliagirl]

3 hours ago, neuro101 said:

Does anyone know if phone interviews are generally from No Caller ID numbers?

In my experience, phone calls from schools have always been with an area code from the university's city/town. They should not be calling you from a number without a caller ID (and if for whatever reason they do and you don't pick up, they should leave a voicemail).

[mabelgoestophd]

7 hours ago, D2R said:

I really hope they are not but it seems like they pretty much sent out at once from past years...:(

Do you think maybe it's different for international applicants?

[phd2020]

10 hours ago, gliagirl said:

Ask them if they have alternative interview weekends and if not, ask if they'll let you do videochats. I ran into this issue when I applied and the school I was less excited about offered me the option of doing Skype interviews with faculty I was interested in.

Thank you! This is super helpful. They scheduled the interview weekend to align with a conference at their school so I don’t know if they’ll be open to a different weekend but asked nicely. I’m still very interested in the program so I just hope they don’t misinterpret it! 

[NeuroKween]

On 12/13/2019 at 2:47 PM, zebrafishfan said:

Does anyone know if Mount Sinai is done sending out interviews? I saw some entries on the results page. 

Where did you see this? I can't find the entries. 

[Polar]

55 minutes ago, NeuroKween said:

Where did you see this? I can't find the entries. 

I saw three yesterday, and another one posted just now (all neuroscience).

[NeuroKween]

1 hour ago, Polar said:

I saw three yesterday, and another one posted just now (all neuroscience).

Well damn  hope they aren’t all out at the same time 

[RAYHONG]

Hi, for those who applied to u penn, do people expect to hear back next week?

[NeuroKween]

Does anyone know if Icahn sinai sends their interview emails in batches or all at once? 

[islandxmelody]

On 12/13/2019 at 2:26 PM, pipettestan said:

TFW all these schools pop up on the result page but not the ones you applied to...

No news is good news i suppose 

[lencarn]

15 hours ago, RAYHONG said:

Hi, for those who applied to u penn, do people expect to hear back next week?

I think they sent out interviews already. 

[nerdyneuron]

does anyone know how the committee does the initial screening process? Like do they actually read through all the personal statements, LORs, etc or do they initially look at GPA and weed out the outliers first & then read the essays/LORs/etc? 

[pipettestan]

31 minutes ago, nerdyneuron said:

does anyone know how the committee does the initial screening process? Like do they actually read through all the personal statements, LORs, etc or do they initially look at GPA and weed out the outliers first & then read the essays/LORs/etc? 

Depends on the program. Some school's like CalTech do it based off number (GPA, GRE) first but generally committees put applicants in an absolutely must invite/recommended/absolutely do not invite pile and go based off that.

[ftb]

34 minutes ago, nerdyneuron said:

does anyone know how the committee does the initial screening process? Like do they actually read through all the personal statements, LORs, etc or do they initially look at GPA and weed out the outliers first & then read the essays/LORs/etc? 

A professor I talked to mentioned that they receive around 400 applications. By the time they are being reviewed in the committee there are only around 200 left.

[LilAstro]

Has anyone else gotten zero emails since submitting? I am freaking out and getting really anxious!

[Anonyneuron]

Me too

also from the results page it looks like Sinai and Northwestern neuroscience sent out invites, so that is unfortunate 

Edited December 16, 2019 by MyelinatedSheath

[pipettestan]

7 minutes ago, MyelinatedSheath said:

Me too

also from the results page it looks like Sinai and Northwestern neuroscience sent out invites, so that is unfortunate 

Ugh, here's to hoping Northwestern doesn't send them out in one big batch...

 

(edit) jk it seems like they do

Edited December 16, 2019 by pipettestan

[Polar]

11 minutes ago, Kendra Case said:

Has anyone else gotten zero emails since submitting? I am freaking out and getting really anxious!

Me too! 

[LilAstro]

4 minutes ago, Polar said:

Me too! 

How are you dealing lol, I don't know how to not think about it 24/7!

[Polar]

2 minutes ago, Kendra Case said:

How are you dealing lol, I don't know how to not think about it 24/7!

Haha I’m almost refreshing this page and the results page every 5 minutes.

[Polar]

4 minutes ago, Kendra Case said:

How are you dealing lol, I don't know how to not think about it 24/7!

It seems interesting... Last year, by the same time (Dec 16, or the first 2 weeks of December), more schools have sent their interviews compared to this year. Although a lot of schools sent on Dec 17/18/19/20.