2021 Computational Biology/Bioinformatics/Systems Biology PhD Admissions

[Simaiinox]

35 minutes ago, sea_cactus said:

Still no Stanford BMI? 

Still no stanford bmi ?

[chocolate_waffle]

Has anyone who received an interview invite for UCSD BISB & accepted it heard back about scheduling? I had a conflict on the requested date so I asked to schedule a different day, but it's been 10 days and I haven't heard back from them..  

Also, has anyone heard from UC Berkeley Comp Bio (CCB) yet? 

Edited January 19, 2021 by chocolate_waffle

[kaffeinatedkat]

34 minutes ago, chocolate_waffle said:

Has anyone who received an interview invite for UCSD BISB & accepted it heard back about scheduling? I had a conflict on the requested date so I asked to schedule a different day, but it's been 10 days and I haven't heard back from them..  

Also, has anyone heard from UC Berkeley Comp Bio (CCB) yet? 

Same here, I also have a conflict but have not heard back. I followed up yesterday and the person was still out of the office. I haven't heard back from Berkeley yet either. 

[fullofhopes]

Hi guys,

After the interviews, do the schools give you admissions solely based on your interview performance/scores or do they still consider your gpa/research experience and stuff even after the interviews?

 

[fullofhopes]

1 hour ago, chocolate_waffle said:

Has anyone who received an interview invite for UCSD BISB & accepted it heard back about scheduling? I had a conflict on the requested date so I asked to schedule a different day, but it's been 10 days and I haven't heard back from them..  

Also, has anyone heard from UC Berkeley Comp Bio (CCB) yet? 

I have seen some UCB Comp Bio posts on the results section, tho. But not sure if they're done sending out invites. 

Edited January 19, 2021 by fullofhopes

[ChagyrskayaNeanderthal]

2 hours ago, chocolate_waffle said:

Has anyone who received an interview invite for UCSD BISB & accepted it heard back about scheduling? I had a conflict on the requested date so I asked to schedule a different day, but it's been 10 days and I haven't heard back from them..  

Also, has anyone heard from UC Berkeley Comp Bio (CCB) yet? 

I just got a call from a POI at Berkeley letting me know I got an interview - he said email invitations should be coming out soon!

[Sky_china]

Did anyone get an confirmation from the USC admin for interview ? I have replied back for interview but she hasn't opened email even after the deadline... 

[Simaiinox]

Based on UCSF's email to all interviewing applicants, there are 60 people invited to interviews. Does anyone know if that's high compared to other schools, or is this typical? 

[Hisky]

2 minutes ago, Simaiinox said:

Based on UCSF's email to all interviewing applicants, there are 60 people invited to interviews. Does anyone know if that's high compared to other schools, or is this typical? 

I only know that WUSTL interviews 24 people this year (12 this month, 12 next month), at least for now. 60 is a pretty large number I think. 

[kaffeinatedkat]

16 minutes ago, Simaiinox said:

Based on UCSF's email to all interviewing applicants, there are 60 people invited to interviews. Does anyone know if that's high compared to other schools, or is this typical? 

I was wondering the same thing. I think it might be typical based on: https://graduate.ucsf.edu/program-stats-bmi. But their admission data is a combination of BMI and Biophysics, so that's worth noting. 

[aventus]

Just now, kaffeinatedkat said:

I was wondering the same thing. I think it might be typical based on: https://graduate.ucsf.edu/program-stats-bmi. But their admission data is a combination of BMI and Biophysics, so that's worth noting. 

I was just going to say. But I would add that if you go to this link you can also see the 2020 stats: https://graduate.ucsf.edu/program-statistics

 

If you change the program selection to BMI from the dropdown menu, it looks like they admitted 77 applications to BMI last year alone, so maybe 60 interviewees isn't that bad...

[evovae]

2 hours ago, aventus said:

I was just going to say. But I would add that if you go to this link you can also see the 2020 stats: https://graduate.ucsf.edu/program-statistics

If you change the program selection to BMI from the dropdown menu, it looks like they admitted 77 applications to BMI last year alone, so maybe 60 interviewees isn't that bad...

Nice find -- although as others have noted, the admissions numbers for BMI and Biophysics are combined (if you select Biophysics from the dropdown, the admissions numbers don't change).

It looks like both programs are roughly the same size; if it's a 50-50 split, then that's ~35 offers per program, with ~10 people enrolling in each. If the numbers are similar this year, one might guess that ~60% of BMI interviewees will get an offer. That seems reasonable based on what I've (vaguely) heard about other schools.

Edited January 20, 2021 by evovae

[anavailablename]

4 hours ago, Sky_china said:

Did anyone get an confirmation from the USC admin for interview ? I have replied back for interview but she hasn't opened email even after the deadline... 

I got their reply 1 hour ago. They are still working on the schedule and hopefully an itinerary will be sent out by the end of this week or Monday at the least.

[emglass]

Just got an interview invite from a Pofessor with the Carnegie Mellon/ Pitt joint program in computational biology! Very exciting. Now still waiting to hear from two schools.....

[InferenceII]

1 hour ago, emglass said:

Just got an interview invite from a Pofessor with the Carnegie Mellon/ Pitt joint program in computational biology! Very exciting. Now still waiting to hear from two schools.....

Congrats!! BTW did you apply through Pittsburgh? It seems that cmu usually would not send out interviews... 

[emglass]

10 minutes ago, InferenceII said:

Congrats!! BTW did you apply through Pittsburgh? It seems that cmu usually would not send out interviews... 

I applied through the CMU computer science application portal. Its supposedly a short 30 minute interview with a POI, but got an official email from the CPCB coordinator to set up the interview.

[kaffeinatedkat]

I got an email from UCLA Medical Informatics inviting me interview today!

[Sky_china]

Anyone got interview for BU today ? saw one on the result page,  I am scared as hell ... 

[clueless_cafer]

3 hours ago, kaffeinatedkat said:

I got an email from UCLA Medical Informatics inviting me interview today!

Congrats! Can I ask if you are international? 

[kaffeinatedkat]

1 hour ago, clueless_cafer said:

Congrats! Can I ask if you are international? 

Thank you! I am not international

[sea_cactus]

ACCEPTED TO UPENN GCB! Wow so excited. 

[crchen]

On 1/21/2021 at 12:35 AM, emglass said:

I applied through the CMU computer science application portal. Its supposedly a short 30 minute interview with a POI, but got an official email from the CPCB coordinator to set up the interview.

Cong! Could you tell me which school your interviewee affiliates, UPitt or CMU?

[just_fine]

15 hours ago, sea_cactus said:

ACCEPTED TO UPENN GCB! Wow so excited. 

Congratulation! Is it an email from POI or official email from the program director?

[emglass]

9 hours ago, crchen said:

Cong! Could you tell me which school your interviewee affiliates, UPitt or CMU?

It was a Professor from Pitt

[ChagyrskayaNeanderthal]

2 hours ago, just_fine said:

Congratulation! Is it an email from POI or official email from the program director?

I was also accepted to Penn GCB, and mine was an email from a POI (seems like someone from the results page had the same experience). He said official letters would be going out next week!