2013 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results

[ImmunoXX]

yay for hope! As long as there hasn't been that big wave of invites I'll keep hoping!

[mrmolecularbiology]

Invite to UW-Madison Biophysics Interview weekend Feb 22-23rd. Conflicts with my duke Interview so awaiting a reply to see If they can schedule an alternative visit.

Edited January 11, 2013 by mrmolecularbiology

[Biohopeful]

What program at UW-Madison did you apply for?

[mrmolecularbiology]

Biophysics 

[porge1991]

Weill Cornell BCMB interview invites started rolling out around this time last year....

[JulesJules]

I wonder when Rockefeller is going to come out... :-s

[Gram Neutral]

Undergrad Institution: Big Ten
Major(s): Molecular and Cellular Biology
Minor(s): Political Science
Overall GPA: 3.1
Position in Class: Middle
Type of Student: Domestic, White

GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 158
V: 160
W: 4.0


Research Experience: 2 years at top lab doing molecular biology work with very very large funding, but not a molecular lab. Independent research, and a possible publication this year, but not until after acceptances, so that doesn't help.

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Just Dean's List

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Lead a team of 25 for a retreat of 40 people. Organized and ran weekly meetings

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I can ride a bike. Ha, I have no idea. Nothing.

Special Bonus Points: Recommendations are very strong. Told by someone on admissions board at my school that one of my letters basically erased my bad GPA. 

Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Upward trend on GPA. Very bad first year, last 60 credits, 3.4 GPA.

Applying to Where:

 

Purdue-Biological Science

University of Iowa-Microbiology

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign-MCB

University of Illinois-Chicago: GEMS

Loyola-Chicago: Microbiology

Medical College of Wisconsin: Biological Sciences

[ImmunoXX]

I broke down and called UCSD Biology (not BMS) and was told that the first interview weekend was full but that they are still sending some invites for the second weekend! Still hopeful!

[Biochem]

Received invitation to Biochemistry Graduate Recruiting from Texas A&M on feb 23-24

[chemaholic]

And yet another week went by without any good news...

[flat_rhino]

Yeah this doesn't follow the trends from last year.

[jatomolo]

I got Harvard BBS and Stanford Biosciences (Cancer Biology) interview invites a few hours ago!!! Excited! =)

[banksy]

wahh...i wanted an interview at UCSD :-(

 

maybe next week...won't hold my breath. 

 

anyone apply to Rice SSPB? if so any word from them?

[banksy]

SSPB site says LOR are accepted until today, so they will probably be meeting next week... it would be pretty awesome to be the first class of a brand new program.... only 8 spots available though. i'm hoping they did not receive a lot of applications

 

--ranting and raving because there has been no time to eat food yet today. almost done

[BCELL23]

Applied:(9) U Penn, Harvard, Stanford, UCSF, Tufts, BU, Georgetown, U of Chicago, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Interview (4/9) U Penn, Tufts (Immunology), U of Chicago (Immunology), JHU (Immunology), JHU (CMM)
Rejected (1): UCSF(BMS)
Accepted:

[BCELL23]

Anyone heard from Harvard Immunology...?

 

Nope and it's killing me... isn't their interview weekend on Jan 24th!? I think this means rejection is coming.......

[drhisham80]

Hi,

Am wondring if anyone got an IV at UAB pathobiology molecular medicine PhD program. I have an Skyp IV on next friday.

If anyone have an experience at UAB, suggestions will be very appreciated.

Thnx in advance.

[BambooPanda]

Is Harvard Immunology part of BBS? Or is it a separate program?

[BCELL23]

Part of Harvard DMS

[SynBio1]

Banksy- I am appying to SSPB. My area of interest is in synthetic biology. I am particularly interested in the program's metabolic engineering research and the Tabor lab's optogenetics research.

[SynBio1]

No word, other then last week I was told that I put in the wrong DOB, so they are probably ready to review this coming week.

[banksy]

Tabor seems cool. Matt Bennett, Suh, Zhong... I am interested in the program's quantitative biology theme and coursework.

 

 

I had a typo in my essay  , though nothing glaring

[banksy]

When are you going to Austin, SynBio?

[SynBio1]

The early date Jan 24/25. Maybe we'll see each other.

[WhitH]

I've only got 4 schools left to hear back from. I'm assuming that at this point Columbia and JHU CMM are rejections since I havent heard from them by now, and I might be hearing from Weill and UCSD this week? Does that sound right?