melch Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 17 minutes ago, northeast_hopeful said: Three of mine are professors (along with the roles I mentioned) so hopefully I'm competitive ? Although I do know some people from industry who applied to Stanford BMI and got in, I'm assuming most of their recs were from bosses/supervisors. Fingers crossed. I'm applying to Stanford Genetics. BMI is my second choice. I made the switch between the two programs because hopefully nepotism will get me into Stanford. Hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarnished-compbio Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 41 minutes ago, melch said: Congratulations!!! I'm starting to get nervous because I have not heard back from any of the programs that I applied for. Haven't heard from any of my schools yet either, but not like I applied to a lot ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melch Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 10 minutes ago, tarnished-compbio said: Canadian applicant, only applying to a handful of schools (aimed at specific PIs of interest) 1. UW (GS and MCB) 2. Berkeley (CompBio) 3. CMU-Pitt (CompBio) 4. UC Irvine (MCSB) 5. JHU (CS) Stats: - B.Sc in Comp Sci and Molecular Bio from Canadian university, currently finishing up M.Sc from top 3 Canadian university - 3.7 undergrad GPA, 4.0 graduate GPA - 6 years of research experience, 1 first author preprint, 1 first author in progress, 1 second author pub, 1 second author in review, 2 middle author pubs - 3 LORs from current and past PIs I know I'm not applying to many schools, not sure how competitive I actually am as an international student It's a good idea to target professors-of-interest. However, keep in mind that some professors might've left their roles recently and still retain a dormant role in the university. In this case, we might not be able to work with them even though their names are still on the university website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconut Matrix Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Does UPenn GCB already send out interviews for both international and domestic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver-Lining Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Got an invitation for virtual interview with Duke CBB! Really looking forward to it! Did not hear anything from Penn GCB, probably a rejection. I heard that they send out interviews for all students based in the US together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northeast_hopeful Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I got interviews from Penn GCB and UCSF today. Really excited for both, I love a lot of the work the faculty do in those two. UCLA has sent out bioinformatics interviews but I didn't get one so I'm assuming soft rejection for that as of right now. For Penn GCB, they said to notify them by December 29th so I think they might send out more interviews if people reject but not sure. Applied (19): MIT CSB, Harvard BIG, Stanford BMI, UW Genome Sciences, Wash U DBBS CSB, CMU-Pitt JCB, Cornell Tri-I, Rutgers Molecular Biosciences, Yale CBB, UCSF, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Princeton QCB, UPenn GCB, Duke CBB, UNC Chapel Hill BCB, UCSD BSB, Caltech Bioengineering, Brown Comp BioInterview: - UNC Chapel Hill BCB, Duke CBB, UPenn GCB, UCSFRejected: -Accepted: - Silver-Lining 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarnished-compbio Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 10 hours ago, melch said: It's a good idea to target professors-of-interest. However, keep in mind that some professors might've left their roles recently and still retain a dormant role in the university. In this case, we might not be able to work with them even though their names are still on the university website. I've reached out to my top professors from these programs so I at least know they are looking for new students this cycle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compEvoBio Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Hello Everyone, I hope everyone gets into the programs that will provide them a great future. I also recieved the interview invitation from Duke CBB but haven't heard from UNC. I assume that I am rejected since the interviews are sent but I was wondering if any international students recieved the interview mail ? Do you think they might send the international applicants interviews later on or should I remove UNC from my "wait for mail" list. Also I havent seen many people who applied to Berkeley in this forum, but it had one of the earliest deadlines so I believe it should have sent the interview mails before Duke. Has anyone heard anything from Berkeley? Thank you all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melch Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 I think all the interview invitations for Harvard BBS were sent out yesterday. I didn't get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melch Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, melch said: I think all the interview invitations for Harvard BBS were sent out yesterday. I didn't get one. Correction: The Program Director told me that the interview invitations will ALL be sent out by next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compbio-wal Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 On 12/16/2022 at 10:03 AM, melch said: My boss, who is the HoD at Stanford, mentioned that we need at least three letters from full professors to be competitive. No, the difference between full prof/associate is just years of being tenured, does not reflect the overall field reputation too much. There is not much difference there, but strong letters from tenure-tracked faculty members is probably needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compbio99 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Has anyone received interview invites from Yale BBS specifically the CBB track or Columbia Biological Sciences specifically the systems biology track? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compEvoBio Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 hour ago, compbio99 said: Has anyone received interview invites from Yale BBS specifically the CBB track or Columbia Biological Sciences specifically the systems biology track? I am waiting for the same two and Berkeley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melch Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 hours ago, compbio99 said: Has anyone received interview invites from Yale BBS specifically the CBB track or Columbia Biological Sciences specifically the systems biology track? Still waiting. But I applied to Columbia Biomedical Informatics as my first choice and Sys Bio as second choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoRH Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, compbio99 said: Has anyone received interview invites from Yale BBS specifically the CBB track or Columbia Biological Sciences specifically the systems biology track? I applied to Yale's EMD which had the deadline on 12/15/2022 and I'm waiting. It's been only 5 days but the wait is hard. Other programs I applied: MIT CSB Scripps Chemical and Biological Sciences Stanford EcoEvo WSU IID Harvard Virology. BSc in Biotechnology, M.Sc(c) in Microbiology, 6 years of full-time research experience with 14 publications (3 1st author) Edited December 20, 2022 by RicardoRH Missing details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudewhat Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) US-based applicant Undergrad at University of Michigan, double major in Cellular and Molecular Bio (honors), Data Science GPA 3.8 3 years part-time undergrad comp bio research 3 years full time bioinformatics research in an immunology lab 1 co-authored pub, 1 in-preparation co-first publication 2nd time applying. Schools: 1. MIT CSB 2. Stanford BMI 3. University of Chicago GGSB 4. Hopkins BME 5. NIH Grad Partnership Program w/Oxford+Cambridge 6. Wisconsin Biomedical Data Science 7. Michigan Bioinf 8. WUSTL Bioinf and Data Sci 9. UCSF Bioinf 10. Northwestern Driskill Grad Program 11. UNC BBSP 12. Duke Computational Bio and Bioinf 13. Oregon Health Sciences University bioinformatics and computational biomedicine 14. Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics 15. Uni of Maryland Baltimore County Biological Sciences Definitely a lot of long-shot schools here, but I think I have also included enough realistic choices? Let me know your thoughts. Edited December 20, 2022 by dudewhat clarity Silver-Lining 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whateverhello Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 (edited) Got an interview invite from Berkeley (Comp. Bio.) from POI on 12/19 Edited December 21, 2022 by whateverhello word change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compEvoBio Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 2 hours ago, whateverhello said: Got an interview invite from Berkeley (Comp. Bio.) from POI on 12/19 Hi, are you an international student ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reverber Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 I just saw someone has marked that Harvard SSQBio interviews are out on the google sheet from Reddit (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wZ97YulhFeNUil4K0_UqSv6YrikCTwA7HT0LlRuPZ0c/edit#gid=0) - can anyone here confirm? The sheet says that interview invites were sent on 12/20 via email for both domestic and international applicants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whateverhello Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 8 hours ago, compEvoBio said: Hi, are you an international student ? Hi @compEvoBio, I'm American. compEvoBio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarnished-compbio Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Saw someone on the results page got an interview invite to UW Genome Sciences? Can someone confirm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarnished-compbio Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Just got a rejection from UW MCB, sucks cause it was one of my top choices. I have to put faith into UW Genome Sciences for my top choice now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrahcdlo Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 3 hours ago, tarnished-compbio said: Just got a rejection from UW MCB, sucks cause it was one of my top choices. I have to put faith into UW Genome Sciences for my top choice now I saw someone got the interview for UW Genome Sciences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compbio99 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Saw on a reddit spreadsheet that Yale sent out CBB interview invites already… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoRH Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 41 minutes ago, compbio99 said: Saw on a reddit spreadsheet that Yale sent out CBB interview invites already… Yup, saw that too. EMD has not sent invites out yet (luckily for me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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