2012 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results

[SamreenF]

havent heard back from Baylor neuro and USC neuro yet guess have to go on for next year hmmph :S

If any one has heard from baylor and USC neuro,.. let me know too

[kgumps2012]

SCellNeuro have you decided where you are going to enroll?

[kgumps2012]

boo. rejected from Drexel. I really want to go to Ohio state university anyway. here's to hoping for a great interview.

[Weirdlight]

Just heard back from Stony Brook Department of Genetics... I am deffinitly still interested and will be emailing them to say so ( they basically say that I'm wait listed and let then know if I dont want to be wait listed anymore) but is there anything else I can do???? What does it really mean?

[greenertea]

Intel for people waiting to hear back from MIT Biology: I heard through the grapevine that from each of the two first interviews they accept the top 1/3 of the applicants. They wait until the end of the third interview to review the rest and by the end they will accept roughly 70% of the total people they interview.

[Neuropsychologist]

Hi all!

I'm an international applicant. My profile is here:

GRE: Q-750

V-430

AWA- 4.0

TOEFL- 105 (I've got a 30/30 in writing)

GPA- 3.75 (out of 4)

Program of Interest- Neurosciences

I'm assisting my Professor who's currently doing her PhD. I've also finished an internship at an industry and completed a industrial training program. I also have to my profile, a Certificate course in Psychological counseling which is equivalent to a Post Graduate Diploma. I have attended a couple of international conferences and presented a poster in a national conference too. I have an undergraduate research project too.

The schools which I've applied for are:

For PhD in Neurosciences:

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio IMGP

Georgia Health Sciences University

Marquette University

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha

University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis

Texas A&M Institute of Neuroscience

For MS in Neurosciences:

University of Montana

I haven't heard from any of the universities above. I was rejected the last year when I applied for fall 2011 because my application came in late. This year I sent my application early in October and still no reply from them.

What chances do I stand for admission in any of the universities, kindly give me your valuable feedback guys, Cheers!

[virion]

I'm assisting my Professor who's currently doing her PhD.

I'm not sure what you mean here...

[dhm0219]

Intel for people waiting to hear back from MIT Biology: I heard through the grapevine that from each of the two first interviews they accept the top 1/3 of the applicants. They wait until the end of the third interview to review the rest and by the end they will accept roughly 70% of the total people they interview.

I'm interviewing at the last recruitment (this weekend). Hopefully they get back to us quickly. I so badly just want to know where I'm going so I can start planning my life...

[greenertea]

I'm interviewing at the last recruitment (this weekend). Hopefully they get back to us quickly. I so badly just want to know where I'm going so I can start planning my life...

From what I gather from my survey stalking skills, they have gotten back to people on the Wednesday after the first two interviews. I dunno if they're planning the same thing after the last interview.

[olfactorybulb]

Anyone heard back from UCLA-ACCESS after the 3rd interview weekend (25-27 Feb)?

[Neuropsychologist]

@virion: I'm currently working as an assistant in her lab, that's what I meant!

[TXTiger2012]

@Neuropsychologist, I'm confused like virion. Its clear you're working in a lab, but your phrasing makes it sound like your supervisor is currently pursuing a PhD herself, instead of being faculty. Is that the case, or are your stats being misread?

[fosgfp]

From what I gather from my survey stalking skills, they have gotten back to people on the Wednesday after the first two interviews. I dunno if they're planning the same thing after the last interview.

Yep, I heard back from MIT the Wednesday after my interview

[Neuropsychologist]

@TXTiger: She's pursuing her PhD now, and yeah she's my supervisor! She's an assistant professor. That's her designation as per UGC rules in India! That must have created the confusion, coz, a Professor is one who's finished his/her PhD, I understand. But this is how it is in India!

[paulio]

It's occurred to me that despite having been here since the start of this season I never posted my stats...

Undergrad: Oxford - Biochemistry

Masters 1: Oxford - Biochemistry (actually part of my undegrad - it's like a 4 year degree, equivalent to a Bachelors and Master)

Masters 2: Imperial, London - Computer Science

Citizenship: British

GPA: 3.7 (Oxford) and 4.0 (Imperial)

GRE: 760Q, 580V, 4.5 AW

Research Experience: 2 summer research projects, one 7 month thesis and one 4.5 month thesis

Publications: Heading to San Diego in May to present my first author paper at a conference, although I didn't know this when applying

LORS: 2 from professors, 1 from postdoc

Prospective Graduate Program: Computational Biology, Systems Biology, Biology, Computational Biophysics.

Prospective Graduate Schools:

(In order I heard back from)

MIT - Rejected without interview

NYU - Accepted

WashU - Accepted

Columbia - Accepted

Yale - Waitlisted

UPit/CMU joint program - Accepted

UPenn - Accepted

Duke - Accepted

Chicago -Accepted

Cornell - Final interview next week

Harvard - Not heard anything (i.e. rejected without interview)

Attending: Undecided...

If people have questions, especially about applying as a British student, let me know! Good luck everyone!

[Neuropsychologist]

@paulio: An excellent profile that you have, and you deserve the fantastic invites to the best universities! I wish you great luck my friend!

[800meters]

Undergrad Institution: Big State school

Major(s): Biology

Overall GPA: 3.20

Position in Class: average

Type of Student: domestic, white male

GRE Scores (old version):

Q: 780 (89th percentile)

V: 580 (82nd percentile)

W: 5.5 (94th percentile)

Research Experience: 3 years at federal lab, 2 additional summers at NIH

1 first-author publication in a lowly journal, 1 second-author publication in a top journal

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Graduating with Honors (university's honors program). I know people who know people involved in admissions.

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: TA

Applying to Where:

Berkeley (accepted)

Harvard (rejected)

Yale (rejected)

Cornell ?

Penn (rejected)

Hopkins (interviewed)

Maryland (declined offer)

Michigan (rejected)

WUSTL (rejected)

Georgetown (interviewed)

Dartmouth (interviewed)

Pittsburgh ?

Princeton (accepted)

[Upasana]

Hello. Anyone admitted into the University of Cincinnati college of medicine for MS in Immunobiology ? Or in general University of CIncinnati College of medicine?

[Suleman10]

Signing the SOI for UTHSCSA for IMGP this week! :-)... Feel so relieved on getting done with this process. :-)

[paulio]

@Neuropsychologist - thank you! I've been quite lucky I think, as my GRE scores are pretty average/low for a lot of the places I applied (I had no idea they were so important when I took them in 2011 - I'd never done a standardized exam before!)

[coonskee]

@paulio, I'm really curious where you're going to end up!! Obviously I want everyone to go to Columbia Congrats on all the amazing choices.

[kgumps2012]

rejected from penn. here's to a great interview at OSU!

[manofhonor]

Has anyone heard from UT Houston, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences?

[PrescribedBurn]

Anyone else still waiting on Stanford after interviewing? They said we'd hear back quickly, and some people heard last week, mostly by phone, but I haven't heard a thing.

Also waiting on Michigan, where I interviewed a month ago.

Edited March 12, 2012 by PrescribedBurn

[greenertea]

Anyone else still waiting on Stanford after interviewing? They said we'd hear back quickly, and some people heard last week, mostly by phone, but I haven't heard a thing.

Also waiting on Michigan, where I interviewed a month ago.

I'm still waiting on Stanford technically, but I feel like since they called people last week it's probably a rejection. Which home program did you interview with? I interviewed with biochemistry and saw an acceptance posted from biophysics and cancer biology not that long ago, so I don't think all programs are done sending out acceptances.

Edited March 13, 2012 by greenertea