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Tracking for applications for NIH 2024-2025 applicants :)

List the places you applied and tracking of interviews/acceptance/rejections!

These are the places I replied: 

Mount Sinai 

UMASS 

UC Santa Cruz 

UPENN 

UIC 

UChicago 

Tufts

UC Berkeley 

BUMC

Rochester

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This is so stressful, but so glad you started a thread to discuss! Also, when is the time to panic? Like we're still early...right??


Mount Sinai

Brown (rejected super fast after submission)

Stanford REACH (sadly rejected in 2nd round)

UNC 

Johns Hopkins

Columbia

MSK (rejected like 1 day post-submission)

Duke

UMass Chan

Vanderbilt

CU Anschutz

NIH IRTA

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi!

I have applied to these programs:

 

UAB: Interview this week

Albert Einstein: Still waiting 

UPenn: Still waiting but assuming rejection since they said decisions would come out by March 29th lol

VT: Interview this week

Notre Dame: Interview this week

Rochester: Still waiting 

UC Berk: Still waiting 

BU: Still waiting

I am super anxious about all of this 

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Here are some general interview questions I have been asked, every. single. time. 

They will also start with asking for a quick overview of yourself so I wrote out a general elevator speech of who I am and how it led me to prep

- Why PREP? What do you most want to get out of this program?

- Have you had research experience? (if you say yes) What did you do and find from the research.

- Have you had good mentorships before? What made that relationship successful? What do you look for in a mentor

- How have you responded to a hard situation during your undergad?

- What do you expect your greatest challenges to be in grad school?

-"what will you bring to the PREP cohort",

- "where do you see yourself after your PhD"

- "what specific skills do you hope to gain from PREP"

- Make sure to look at the faculty as they will ask if you have any in mind 

- They will ask what specific research you are interested in 

etc etc 

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Glad to find the one for this year!

I've applied to UNC, Johns Hopkins, UMD, and UChicago. Ive already been rejected from UNC and John's Hopkins, haven't heard back from Chicago or Maryland yet. Marylands application was due way back in January and i have yet to hear anything at all so I'm assuming rejection unless no one else has heard anything. And of course i still haven't heard from Chicago since they extended their deadline by a week. I did submit awhile ago and thought they were doing rolling admissions but I'm not sure anymore. Good luck to everyone who applied!

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On 3/18/2024 at 11:04 PM, justtryingtogotogradschool said:

This is so stressful, but so glad you started a thread to discuss! Also, when is the time to panic? Like we're still early...right??


Mount Sinai

Brown (rejected super fast after submission)

Stanford REACH (sadly rejected in 2nd round)

UNC 

Johns Hopkins

Columbia

MSK (rejected like 1 day post-submission)

Duke

UMass Chan

Vanderbilt

CU Anschutz

NIH IRTA

 

Since rejected from JHU, Duke, UMass, Columbia, UNC, and Mt. Sinai. Only have Vanderbilt and CU left and possibly the NIH, but apparently they have a hiring freeze since Congress can't do their jobs and pass a budget...thanks Congress

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Hi everyone. I applied to NIH PREP programs at…

CU Anschutz

Duke

JHU

UT-San Antonio

Rochester University 

Albert Einstein

Yale University

So far JHU rejected me and Duke waitlisted me after an interview. I’ve also had interviews with UT- San Antonio and U of Rochester, but I’m still waiting to hear back. Somebody please boost my confidence… I’m so scared that I may not get in anywhere. Anyone heard anything from these schools?

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18 hours ago, glassskinprincess said:

Has anyone heard from UChicago 🥲

i haven't heard a n y t h i n g yet, and since they were accepting letters of rec until the 15th i wouldn't be too worried yet!

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6 minutes ago, glassskinprincess said:

But they have rolling admissions I wonder if they already accepted some of their cohort 

real, its just odd bc I emailed them on the 27th and they said that they will start looking at applications and sending out interviews in the next "few weeks" but they also extended the time to get letters of rec so i rlly don't know, I may email them to get an update because i rather be declined than wait lol

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