nhyn Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 (edited) hmm i'm working so i should be busy enough not to think about this but i find myself checking gradcafe like crazy, despite myself due to some personal reasons i'm just applying to a few schools around Boston. Dartmouth, Umass Amherst, Tufts, BC, & Brandeis (all cognitive/affective neuro). i know i shot myself in the foot but...these schools do have PIs I really hope to work with, so hopefully.... Edited January 10, 2011 by nhyn
nhyn Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 good news (or bad?): the big interview day for Dartmouth is on Feb 5th. They will still be sending out invitations from now till then (thank God). So I guess if we don't hear anything after that we know... source: PBS's admin. (just called today)
neuropsych76 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Posted January 12, 2011 good news (or bad?): the big interview day for Dartmouth is on Feb 5th. They will still be sending out invitations from now till then (thank God). So I guess if we don't hear anything after that we know... source: PBS's admin. (just called today) Oh geez, well thanks for letting me and anyone else applying know!! I'm pretty familiar with Dartmouth, its a great place and one of my top choices! Although, traveling up there in the winter would be rough... Good luck!
nhyn Posted January 12, 2011 Posted January 12, 2011 its my top choice too, only because theres not one, but about 5 different ppl i'd LOVE to work with (except one is not accepting students ). their department is constructed very well in the sense that the social and cognitive sides complement each other well - i love it i feel like in the US winter is horrible anywhere except maybe California wish i could apply to some schools there, but...
NEUR0 Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 Applied to Neuroscience (cognitive): Applied to:: UPitt, UArizona, WashU, Brown-NIH, Oxford-NIH, Univ Col London-NIH, NYU, Boston Univ, Princeton Heard back and interviewing with:: Pitt, Arizona, WashU, Brown, NYU Â Haven't heard from NIH-Oxford/Uni Col London, Boston, Princeton (though Boston and NIH ones did not have their deadline until Jan 3rd). I am starting to think that I was rejected to Princeton neuro program =( oh well.
esoryma Posted January 14, 2011 Posted January 14, 2011 I'm glad I just found this forum! Kind of wish I had found it about three months ago, though... I applied to 9 schools for neuroscience (both behavioral and cognitive): Emory, Michigan State, OHSU, GSU, University of TX - Austin, UMaine, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, and Dartmouth. I've been invited to interview at Dartmouth and Emory (!), and also heard back (and was rejected) from OHSU. I was surprised with the Emory invitation being so soon, as the application deadline was Jan. 3. I didn't anticipate the post-application anxiety...my first reply came as a total surprise, and ever since then I've been checking my email and phone about thrice an hour.
psygrad81 Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 hmm i'm working so i should be busy enough not to think about this but i find myself checking gradcafe like crazy, despite myself due to some personal reasons i'm just applying to a few schools around Boston. Dartmouth, Umass Amherst, Tufts, BC, & Brandeis (all cognitive/affective neuro). i know i shot myself in the foot but...these schools do have PIs I really hope to work with, so hopefully.... Hello. Whom are you interested in working with at Tufts and BC?
neurobd Posted January 25, 2011 Posted January 25, 2011 Has anyone yet heard from MIT BCS or know when they will be sending out information? Just curious.
neuropsych76 Posted February 1, 2011 Author Posted February 1, 2011 Has anyone yet heard from MIT BCS or know when they will be sending out information? Just curious. On the results page, it says they have sent out all the invites already. Hopefully you got one
2am_frosty Posted February 4, 2011 Posted February 4, 2011 On the results page, it says they have sent out all the invites already. Hopefully you got one hey neuropsych, have you heard from carnegie? if so, when was your app considered complete?
neuropsych76 Posted February 4, 2011 Author Posted February 4, 2011 hey neuropsych, have you heard from carnegie? if so, when was your app considered complete? I have not heard anything from them. I turned in my application a few days before the December 5th deadline. I'm guessing not hearing anything by now is bad news :/
neuropsych76 Posted February 16, 2011 Author Posted February 16, 2011 According to the results page, the Rochester Brain and Cognitive Sciences interview date is coming up... any word on invitations yet??
Arcadian Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 I got invited to visit the UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I'm not sure if this is for a formal interview though. I got this message: Thank you for your application to the PhD program at the School for Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. On behalf of the Faculty at the Center for BrainHealth of the School for Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, I am pleased to invite you to visit our campus and meet faculty on March 10th through March 11th, 2011. Attached is a tentative itinerary. The School's Center for BrainHealth will arrange all of your travel expenses. Please let me know if you are able to attend by Friday afternoon at 12 pm CST, so that we may be able to begin your travel arrangements. The itinerary was also ambiguous. It says "individual lab tours" but never explicitly mentions an interview. Has anyone else heard from this program?
nhyn Posted February 16, 2011 Posted February 16, 2011 i didnt get my itinerary a day before the interview, so...yea, schools can be last minute too. my schedule also got changed around at the last minute, causing some confusion. anyway, that definitely sounds like an interview to me. besides interview, usually they give you lab tours.
neuropsych76 Posted February 16, 2011 Author Posted February 16, 2011 I got invited to visit the UT Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. I'm not sure if this is for a formal interview though. I got this message: The itinerary was also ambiguous. It says "individual lab tours" but never explicitly mentions an interview. Has anyone else heard from this program? Yes, this sounds like a formal interview to me. Especially since they are paying for your travel. My interview information view was fairly ambiguous as well but I had several lab tours as well as several one on one meetings with professors. Good luck!!
Arcadian Posted February 17, 2011 Posted February 17, 2011 Yeah...something weird happened today. I emailed the "program assistant" (that is exactly her title) about this invitation, and she said she "wasn't aware of the invitations and visit" and that she couldn't tell me anything about it. I'm just thinking...Really?
neuropsych76 Posted February 17, 2011 Author Posted February 17, 2011 Yeah...something weird happened today. I emailed the "program assistant" (that is exactly her title) about this invitation, and she said she "wasn't aware of the invitations and visit" and that she couldn't tell me anything about it. I'm just thinking...Really? That's strange... was the program assistant listed as a contact for the email?
Arcadian Posted March 1, 2011 Posted March 1, 2011 Has anyone applied to and heard back from UC Santa Barbara? I applied to Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology. (Yeah, everything's fine with the Dallas interview now. They sent me my confirmations today.) I also received my rejection from Duke today, haha. I should've known their standards were too high for me.
Arcadian Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 I just found out I was rejected from UC Davis by checking the website. They didn't bother sending out a letter or anything. The deny reason was "No major professor available in proposed specialization." I'm pretty sure that's bullshit, because I listed five professors I wanted to work with, and at least one of them had to be taking new students.
cogneuroforfun Posted March 7, 2011 Posted March 7, 2011 I just found out I was rejected from UC Davis by checking the website. They didn't bother sending out a letter or anything. The deny reason was "No major professor available in proposed specialization." I'm pretty sure that's bullshit, because I listed five professors I wanted to work with, and at least one of them had to be taking new students. Did you get in touch with any faculty before applying? It sounds like their system might be to pass your app around to whichever faculty you listed, but if they had no idea who you were and had already been emailed by a couple promising applicants, they might not have really taken a serious look.
Arcadian Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 Did you get in touch with any faculty before applying? It sounds like their system might be to pass your app around to whichever faculty you listed, but if they had no idea who you were and had already been emailed by a couple promising applicants, they might not have really taken a serious look. I actually tried contacting two of the faculty, but they never responded. Oh well. And I was rejected from Northwestern today. Woo! I'm on a roll. (Good think I have that Dallas interview, otherwise I'd feel like shit right now.)
Arcadian Posted March 19, 2011 Posted March 19, 2011 After the interviews at Dallas, I have been in correspondence with three professors. One simply said, "Admissions committee will be making decisions soon, so hopefully we'll be in touch." Another said, "If things get to the point where you'd be interested in working with me, I will arrange for you to visit again and meet the rest of the researchers here." The other said he's going to call me on Monday for further discussion (since we didn't get much time to talk before). I guess this is a good thing...But I wish they would just decide already! Oh, and I was rejected by Santa Barbara. (Am I the only one still posting in this thread, or what?)
neuropsych76 Posted March 20, 2011 Author Posted March 20, 2011 After the interviews at Dallas, I have been in correspondence with three professors. One simply said, "Admissions committee will be making decisions soon, so hopefully we'll be in touch." Another said, "If things get to the point where you'd be interested in working with me, I will arrange for you to visit again and meet the rest of the researchers here." The other said he's going to call me on Monday for further discussion (since we didn't get much time to talk before). I guess this is a good thing...But I wish they would just decide already! Oh, and I was rejected by Santa Barbara. (Am I the only one still posting in this thread, or what?) Those do sound like positive replies after your interview so good job!! But yeah, the waiting afterwards is tough because its completely out of your hands. I'm just deciding between two possible schools now. One I have an acceptance (yay!) and one I have an interview (i'm at right now lol) Best of luck to everyone!!
LouWho Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 The waiting is killing me. I had met with my PoI before application season had really started. He had reviewed my full application, transcripts, personal statement, and made a few suggestions, said he wanted me in his lab. So I'm hopeful, but nervous.
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