2021 Neuroscience PhD Applicants and Admissions Results

[Neuro2021]

For those of you who have already received USC invites, what weekends are the interviews scheduled for?

[AnxiousNeuroKitty]

Got my first interview today! Still waiting to hear back from the other 5. But how should I prepare? And does anyone know  Weill Cornell's acceptance rate of interviewees? 

[neurolingr]

@capa_detated@dopamine_machineI am also anxiously hoping that there is some possibility of UCSF left. The past few years the interviews have all come out on the same day, but they also would send rejections that same day... And, I haven't heard any applicants stating they have received a rejection yet for the Neuroscience program. Other UCSF programs have given out rejections and interviews!

If anyone has asked admissions about this, please keep me updated! Fingers crossed for all of us that there are more interviews coming up.

[Neuromantic]

Any new updates from UNC BBSP Neuro? I still haven't heard anything...

[actionpotential]

18 hours ago, loci_thepoki said:

Has anyone heard back from boulder yet? Specifically for behavioral neuroscience

I applied too and haven't heard anything.

[actionpotential]

Has anyone who applied to Drexel going to do this optional essay thing they have now emailed about 4 times? I'm thinking they've sent it so much at this point maybe I should do it. I might treat it as an update of stuff since I submitted my app like 2 months ago

Edited December 21, 2020 by puppiesandyoga31

[Zoey_q]

On 12/18/2020 at 2:51 PM, Neuro2021 said:

Has anyone heard back from Irvine, USC, or U of Wash (Seattle)?

I haven’t heard back from uc irvine either and I’m so anxious considering that they sent out their invitations on the 14th last year.. but of course this year is different..

[Zoey_q]

Has anyone heard back from UC Irvine INP?? They sent out their invitations pretty early last year and the year before.. 

 

[Neuro2021]

14 minutes ago, Zoey_q said:

Has anyone heard back from UC Irvine INP?? They sent out their invitations pretty early last year and the year before.. 

 

Nope. University of Washington usually sends them out pretty early too and I haven’t seen anything from them on the results board. 

[mak16]

On 12/18/2020 at 2:51 PM, Neuro2021 said:

Has anyone heard back from Irvine, USC, or U of Wash (Seattle)?

UW Seattle said they'd release the invites before the 23rd so I'm guessing they will be coming in the next two days. I emailed them a while back and asked. 

[beardedlabrat]

11 hours ago, Neuro2021 said:

For those that received invites for USC already, did they list the weekends when interviews will be happening?

The interviews are 5 days(Monday-Friday), last week of January and first week of February.

[Neuroimager]

What’s the consensus on USC? More invites likely to come? 

[beardedlabrat]

10 minutes ago, Neuroimager said:

What’s the consensus on USC? More invites likely to come? 

This was some of the verbiage on the email "All interviews for the recruitment cycle are scheduled for the last week in January (25^th-29^th) and the first week in February (1^st-5^th)."

I'm not sure if this means that they sent out all the emails already for these weekends or if they are still in the process of sending out emails. They did mention that the office is closed starting today until January 4th. So if they are going to send out more invitations for those weekends I would expect them to come out then. 

I hope this was helpful!!

[Neuro2021]

I spoke to someone I know currently in the program at USC and he said he received an invite in late Jan when he was applying and that most people he knows were in the same boat but that was years ago so who knows. Also if we are judging from previous years it looks like there were several days of invites sent well into Jan. Here’s to hoping!

55 minutes ago, Neuroimager said:

What’s the consensus on USC? More invites likely to come? 

 

[dopamine_machine]

7 hours ago, AnxiousNeuroKitty said:

Got my first interview today! Still waiting to hear back from the other 5. But how should I prepare? And does anyone know  Weill Cornell's acceptance rate of interviewees? 

Hey, I heard it was around 75% but it may be variable.  What interview weekend did your email from Weill Cornell say? Someone on the results page says 1/20 - 1/22, but mine said 2/03 - 2/05.

[AnxiousNeuroKitty]

Just now, dopamine_machine said:

Hey, I heard it was around 75% but it may be variable.  What interview weekend did your email from Weill Cornell say? Someone on the results page says 1/20 - 1/22, but mine said 2/03 - 2/05.

Mine is 2/3-2/5. 

[dopamine_machine]

Just now, AnxiousNeuroKitty said:

Mine is 2/3-2/5. 

Okay phew! I'm guessing that the person who posted that made a mistake

[Neuromantic]

*me, a broken record* Has anyone heard from Emory Neuro / BBSP Neuro lately? I emailed UNC last night.

[Mneuro]

Has anyone heard back from NBB Columbia, Princeton, NYU, or BCS MIT. I have not heard anything and I am stressed out. Does anyone have an idea of when these programs send invitation ?

[celestial]

13 minutes ago, Mneuro said:

Has anyone heard back from NBB Columbia, Princeton, NYU, or BCS MIT. I have not heard anything and I am stressed out. Does anyone have an idea of when these programs send invitation ?

NYU said late December/early January when I asked!

[AnxiousNeuroKitty]

14 minutes ago, Mneuro said:

Has anyone heard back from NBB Columbia, Princeton, NYU, or BCS MIT. I have not heard anything and I am stressed out. Does anyone have an idea of when these programs send invitation ?

Have not head anything from Princeton; however, NYU Director told me they are still processing applications and that invitations will be sent over a period of time with rejections much after that. 

Edited December 22, 2020 by AnxiousNeuroKitty

[Mneuro]

Thanks! I really hope to hear from them sooner, one way or the other.

[whotfisSarahTonin]

MIT won’t be sending out invites until late Jan/early Feb

[Neuroimager]

Just now, sadbrain said:

MIT won’t be sending out invites until late Jan/early Feb

Not necessarily, I work with a BCS grad student and he said in the days just after Christmas. I presume they wont be all at once but this is what he said.

[whotfisSarahTonin]

3 minutes ago, Neuroimager said:

Not necessarily, I work with a BCS grad student and he said in the days just after Christmas. I presume they wont be all at once but this is what he said.

Ah okay, this was just from the official email sent out to applicants

“Applications will remain under review through the months of December and January. Once all materials have been sorted, we will begin sending official interview invitations to selected candidates. Interviews will take place virtually on March 11 and 12, 2021 and will be by invitation only. Post-interview decisions will be sent in mid-March and final decisions will be sent in late March.”

Maybe they’re doing batches of invites?