rcon Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Hey everyone, I saw a 2019 post for computational biology/bioinformatics/systems biology, but nothing posted yet for the 2020 cycle. I thought I'd get it started for this year because it was nice to read through a thread from last year that was separate from the biology postings. I'm curious to hear where everyone is applying to, and any news/tips anyone has as well. And of course staying updated once results start rolling in after the application deadlines. Good luck to everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chikiti Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 (edited) Oof.. it is awfully quite here. Hey guys, I just submitted my last for 2020 Fall application and am glad it is finally over. I hope all of you finish strong and good luck!! we all need it Here is list of schools that I applied to: University of Washington UCSC UCLA UCSD USC Harvard MIT BU UNC NYU NYU Sackler Edited November 13, 2019 by chikiti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcon Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 On 11/12/2019 at 10:55 PM, chikiti said: Oof.. it is awfully quite here. Hey guys, I just submitted my last for 2020 Fall application and am glad it is finally over. I hope all of you finish strong and good luck!! we all need it Here is list of schools that I applied to: University of Washington UCSC UCLA UCSD USC Harvard MIT BU UNC NYU NYU Sackler It’s been VERY quiet here...? congrats on getting all your submissions in! I’m in the midst of getting them all set for submission right now, and entering that stress mode. My list right now is: Harvard WPI UMass Med BU Yale Dartmouth UPenn Columbia I’m trying to stay in the Northeast and getting a little nervous about having a top-heavy list. Anyone else applying and hoping to be in the Northeast US? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walfred Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 I am applying this year for Bioinformatics this year... Can someone give me a fair evaluation. Do I have chance getting into a good program. Worst international Asian male Undergrad school: Big state (I stupidly chose wait for 3 waitlists, I thought at least 1 out of 3, and ended up like this...) GPA:3.81 major GPA:3.95 Majors: Cell biology, biochem Minor: Math GRE: not taken yet, but will take soon, quant easy full score, verbal IDK, 145-150 prob Exp: 2 years research at UCSF couple summer research publications: Nth author on Nature comm 3rd author on median clinic journal 4th author on a field top journal 2nd on a paper under review for nature, quit big project Working on a (I think) very cool novel deep learning pipeline independently (code is done, result seems promising to my PI, need to finalize) Lof: big name in the field ordinary senior researcher somewhat big name prof in the biomedical filed honors: very competitive national honors for math, biology and physics in high school Putnam experience skills: python (very good, huge amount of projects on git), c/c++ (one project), R(fine, couple projects) , shell(fine, couple projects), cython (one project) and matlab (studied). What is my chance ? is it possible for a Big state international Asian male be accepted in good programs ? Which schools fit my level ? I am applying a lot of schools, but still not very confident...seeing a lot of very competitive people could find a decent program in the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcon Posted November 28, 2019 Author Share Posted November 28, 2019 Does anyone know if any schools (I’m guessing the answer is none) just straight out admit without interviews? Also it looks like mid-Dec is when people heard back from their Dec-1 deadline places...if you don’t hear back then do you assume it’s a no?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsiaoyi0504 Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 As far as I know, CMU-Pitt joint program did that last year, but not sure if that condition is for all students or just few students. 14 hours ago, rcon said: Does anyone know if any schools (I’m guessing the answer is none) just straight out admit without interviews? Also it looks like mid-Dec is when people heard back from their Dec-1 deadline places...if you don’t hear back then do you assume it’s a no?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat10d Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 On 11/12/2019 at 10:55 PM, chikiti said: Oof.. it is awfully quite here. Hey guys, I just submitted my last for 2020 Fall application and am glad it is finally over. I hope all of you finish strong and good luck!! we all need it Here is list of schools that I applied to: University of Washington UCSC UCLA UCSD USC Harvard MIT BU UNC NYU NYU Sackler Also applying to many NE schools. What departments did you select for Harvard, Columbia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcon Posted November 29, 2019 Author Share Posted November 29, 2019 2 hours ago, mat10d said: Also applying to many NE schools. What departments did you select for Harvard, Columbia? I’m applying to Harvard’s BIG and Columbia’s biomedical informatics - what about you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanetic Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Hey all! I'm glad there's a thread for this year, the one from last year was super helpful I'm applying to a mix of biosciences and computational/systems bio programs, my undergrad is a CS major and microbiology & immunology minor. I applied to a lot of programs, maybe too many, but it'll all be worth it if I get even one interview right? Here's my list, I'll do my best to update it as I hear back for those who are curious. I've coded the life sciences programs as yellow and computational programs as orange. School Program University of Washington Genome Sciences University of Washington Immunology University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology UBC Microbiology & Immunology NYU Biomedical sciences (Sackler) NYU Biology (GSAS) Harvard Immunology Harvard Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology UC Berkeley Computational Biology Yale Biological & Biomedical Sciences Stanford Biosciences-Immunology, MBIM, Systems & Chemical Biology UChicago Biological Sciences- Immuno + Systems University of Michigan Immunology Northwestern Integrated Biological Sciences UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics Weill Cornell Immunity & Microbial Pathogenesis Tri-Instiutional (Cornell, Rockefeller, Sloan-Kettering) Computational Biology Johns Hopkins Immunology UPenn Immunology UCSD Biomedical Sciences MIT Computational and Systems Biology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chikiti Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 11/29/2019 at 2:41 PM, mat10d said: Also applying to many NE schools. What departments did you select for Harvard, Columbia? I have applied to Harvard BIG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcon Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 23 hours ago, jeanetic said: Hey all! I'm glad there's a thread for this year, the one from last year was super helpful I'm applying to a mix of biosciences and computational/systems bio programs, my undergrad is a CS major and microbiology & immunology minor. I applied to a lot of programs, maybe too many, but it'll all be worth it if I get even one interview right? Here's my list, I'll do my best to update it as I hear back for those who are curious. I've coded the life sciences programs as yellow and computational programs as orange. School Program University of Washington Genome Sciences University of Washington Immunology University of Washington Molecular and Cellular Biology UBC Microbiology & Immunology NYU Biomedical sciences (Sackler) NYU Biology (GSAS) Harvard Immunology Harvard Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology UC Berkeley Computational Biology Yale Biological & Biomedical Sciences Stanford Biosciences-Immunology, MBIM, Systems & Chemical Biology UChicago Biological Sciences- Immuno + Systems University of Michigan Immunology Northwestern Integrated Biological Sciences UCSF Biological and Medical Informatics Weill Cornell Immunity & Microbial Pathogenesis Tri-Instiutional (Cornell, Rockefeller, Sloan-Kettering) Computational Biology Johns Hopkins Immunology UPenn Immunology UCSD Biomedical Sciences MIT Computational and Systems Biology Wow, that’s extensive! My list ended up only being 9: Brown - CCMB BU - Bioinformatics Columbia - biomedical informatics Dartmouth - QBS Harvard - BIG UMass Med - GSBS UPenn - GCB WPI - BCB Yale - CBB I’m definitely interested in hearing everyone’s updates as invites and decisions start to roll in, I’ll try and update as well jeanetic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanetic Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Has anyone heard anything yet? Or will they probably not get back to people until next week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcon Posted December 6, 2019 Author Share Posted December 6, 2019 2 hours ago, jeanetic said: Has anyone heard anything yet? Or will they probably not get back to people until next week? Nothing here yet - I thought maybe UPenn might go out today based on past years, and it either hasn’t or it’s a no for me from them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potoooooooo Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Hi everyone! Just got an invite to UCLA Bioinformatics (1/30-1/31)!! Bioinformatics programs I'm applying to: Harvard BIG MIT CSB Tri-Institutional UCLA Bioinformatics [12/6] UCSF Bioinformatics JHU BME UC Berkeley Computational Biology Yale CBB Princeton QCB UCSD BISB UChicago GGSB UCI MCSB Penn GCB [Interview Notification] [Acceptance] [Waitlist] [Rejection] (None means still waiting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumblepiehoney Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 (edited) potoooooooo Congrats! What are your stats and background if you don't mind sharing? Edited December 6, 2019 by mumblepiehoney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanetic Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 1 hour ago, rcon said: Nothing here yet - I thought maybe UPenn might go out today based on past years, and it either hasn’t or it’s a no for me from them I didn't hear anything from UPenn either, I think Stanford might have gone out today as well (not sure) but radio silence! Aaaaahh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zha0rong.li Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 I am also applying for PhD in bioinformatics program this year. Haven't heard anything back yet. My school list: Harvard BIG UNC BU University of Miami. Background: MS in bioinformatics from BU BS in Applied mathematics and biology from SBU 4th author on a Nature paper 4th author on a Nature neuroscience paper One year full time research experience in HMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chikiti Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 9 hours ago, jeanetic said: Has anyone heard anything yet? Or will they probably not get back to people until next week? I got an invite to UNC BBSP! I guess UCLA (looking at potoooooooo's post) and UNC are sending invites as they are reading through applications. jeanetic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanetic Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 11 minutes ago, chikiti said: I got an invite to UNC BBSP! I guess UCLA (looking at potoooooooo's post) and UNC are sending invites as they are reading through applications. Awesome, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walfred Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 I just got an interview invitation from Emory...but it's not normal one, but a zoom interview for only 15 min.... Is this a good sign or a bad sign ? is this the final interview or a pre-check interview ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirtualCell Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) On 11/15/2019 at 4:43 PM, rcon said: [...] I’m trying to stay in the Northeast and getting a little nervous about having a top-heavy list. Anyone else applying and hoping to be in the Northeast US? Me! I've just applied to Harvard (BBS, SSQB, BIG) and MIT (Biology, CSB, BE). My list is beyond top-heavy lol--this feels a lot less stressful than undergrad, though, since I/we can always work for a year or two and re-apply more broadly. Edited December 7, 2019 by VirtualCell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yy222 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Just copy my background from other place=-= Undergrad Institution: University of Liverpool, UKMajor(s): Mathematics,Honours degree Minor(s): noneGPA in Major: 3.7Overall GPA: 3.7 (WES) MS Yeshiva University, Economy Overall GPA: 3.96 MS Duke University, Biostatistics Overall GPA: 3.5 Type of Student: international, asianGRE Scores (revised/old version):Q: 155V: 167W: 3.5B:Research Experience: 2.5 years experience, Frist 1 year as TA and RA in Yeshiva University to do research in game theory. Then another 1.5 years in Duke with a Biostatistics faculty, have one paper preprinted (first author) and I think I will get very stong letter from him, also letter come from a famous professor (it should be a stong letter? hope so)Awards/Honors/Recognitions: National Encouragement Award, Academic Achievement Award, Dean ListAny Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:Special Bonus Points: one1st author preprinted on BioRxiv, 3 stong referecne letter Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: low GPA in DukeApplying to Where: University program brown university computational biology brown university biostats NYU biostats Dartmouth Quantitative Biomedical Sciences university of pittsburgh Computational Biology PSU biostats Duke CBB Mcgill biostats university of miami biostats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangenome Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Congrats to all who are done with applications, and good luck! I applied to 9 programs so far: Harvard BIG, MIT EECS, MIT CSBi, Stanford BMI, Columbia BMI, Princeton QCB, Carnegie Mellon CPCB, UCSD BISB, JHU CS. I'm planning to apply to Cambridge and Brown if I don't hear back until January. If you applied to any of these programs above, when do you think we'll hear back for interviews? Thank you all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanetic Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 6 hours ago, pangenome said: Congrats to all who are done with applications, and good luck! I applied to 9 programs so far: Harvard BIG, MIT EECS, MIT CSBi, Stanford BMI, Columbia BMI, Princeton QCB, Carnegie Mellon CPCB, UCSD BISB, JHU CS. I'm planning to apply to Cambridge and Brown if I don't hear back until January. If you applied to any of these programs above, when do you think we'll hear back for interviews? Thank you all! Based on last year's thread: It looks like schools will start contacting people next week. I know one or two places already have but they seem to be in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmom2012 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I'm applying to these schools, also haven't heard anything yet. Good luck to everyone! UNC BBSP Duke CBB Boston University Bioinformatics MIT Biology UCSF BMI UCSD BISB UC Berkeley Computational Biology UC Santa Cruz PBSE UPenn GCB Stanford Genetics UW Genome Sciences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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