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[Pissitu]

Hello everybody!

 

I applied to the following PhD programs:

 

- Harvard Medical School: Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)

- Johns Hopkins University: Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM)

- UC San Francisco: Biomedical Sciences (BMS)

 

Have anyone been already contacted for any of these? I am an international student.

 

Hope to hear from you soon,

 

Pedro

Edited December 27, 2014 by Pissitu

[tulips]

The Results Search (above taskbar) is a really useful tool, but keep in mind that this is just a small sample pool (Grad Cafe-rs who actually post their results).

 

From looking through the Results Search, I see one post about an interview from Johns Hopkins on December 23 and a couple from UCSF on December 17 and 18. 

[Pissitu]

Thank you for the answer! I found the same results, I was looking, or trying, for other GradCafers that did not published their results and might have an idea of the potential dates of contact.

 

In fact something interesting is that all results we both found, are from american students, I don't know if Universities have different times of response for international students. By the way I am a Fulbrighter awardee so I have no deal directly with my applications, IIE did it.

[future.grad.student]

Thank you for the answer! I found the same results, I was looking, or trying, for other GradCafers that did not published their results and might have an idea of the potential dates of contact.

 

In fact something interesting is that all results we both found, are from american students, I don't know if Universities have different times of response for international students. By the way I am a Fulbrighter awardee so I have no deal directly with my applications, IIE did it.

In reading the posts in the biology forum, there was a student that stated international students usually get called later on in the game. I'm not sure how true that is.

[Pissitu]

I hope so, I think universities must try to fill positions first with national students, don't know. It is strange because no PhD website displays that type of information.

[person5811]

I hope so, I think universities must try to fill positions first with national students, don't know. It is strange because no PhD website displays that type of information.

My friend who is an international student from India got an interview from Harvard BBS already. Someone said they called the office and they said they were done sending invites. I don't mean to be a downer, but I would not keep my hopes up. Regardless, good luck.

[ShadyDaddy]

You also have to realize when doing the search that there is no built in feature to get everyone to tag schools and programs in a consistent manner, so you have to try ever possible variant. Big flaw with that function imo.

[ballwera]

You also have to realize when doing the search that there is no built in feature to get everyone to tag schools and programs in a consistent manner, so you have to try ever possible variant. Big flaw with that function imo.

 

Wish they would put some more time into the search feature. Would nice to be able to search by gpa gre etc. (like on other sites) 

[rising_star]

Wish they would put some more time into the search feature. Would nice to be able to search by gpa gre etc. (like on other sites) 

We're well aware that the search function needs work. Unfortunately, we're also all either PhD students or full-time workers, which makes it hard to rewrite the code behind the search.