2016 Applicant Profiles and Admissions Results

[ms_green_genes]

  On 2/19/2016 at 6:48 PM, Ferroportin said:

Got an acceptance call from my top choice - UCSF BMS!! So excited!

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  On 2/19/2016 at 7:23 PM, Earl said:

grats! me too!!

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Congratulations!

[SpartanNerd1021]

Accepted to Notre Dame Biology today!! I'm going to grad school ???

[jesbevo]

I got a phone call from one of my interviewers today! I've been accepted at Einstein!

[thorerges]

 

Undergrad Institution: Unknown public school, no reputation at all, no resources. 
Major(s): Molecular Biology, Chemistry
Minor(s): Mathematics, Computer Sciences
GPA in Major: 3.83
Overall GPA: 3.78
Type of Student: Male - being a minority doesn't help anyway. 

GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 87th percentile
V: 80th percentile
W: 98th percentile




Research Experience: 

1. REU at Caltech at a big lab. Got a letter from there. 

2. REU at a lab at Harvard, did terribly - no letter. 

3. 2 years experience as an undergrad, one first author pending. 

4. 2 years as a research tech at an ivy league school, 2 letters from there. 

5. 2 publications, one co-first author in review, and several pending. 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Usual stuff, nothing fancy. 

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I work out a lot?

Special Bonus Points: Friends with several faculty at Princeton who helped me out.

Applying to Where:

Harvard - BBS

MIT - Biology

MIT - Comp Bio

Stanford - Genetics

UCSF - Biology

UPenn - Mol Bio

UPenn - Bio

Columbia - Biology

Caltech - Biology

Duke - Genetics

UW - Genome Sciences

Yale - MCDB

 

Accepted - Harvard BBS, Duke, UW, Caltech, Yale, Upenn (both programs), Columbia, Stanford.

Rejected - MIT, UCSF

 

Not terrible. Time to get to work at grad school. 

[jaesango]

  On 2/20/2016 at 5:52 AM, thorerges said:

 

Undergrad Institution: Unknown public school, no reputation at all, no resources. 
Major(s): Molecular Biology, Chemistry
Minor(s): Mathematics, Computer Sciences
GPA in Major: 3.83
Overall GPA: 3.78
Type of Student: Male - being a minority doesn't help anyway. 

GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 87th percentile
V: 80th percentile
W: 98th percentile




Research Experience: 

1. REU at Caltech at a big lab. Got a letter from there. 

2. REU at a lab at Harvard, did terribly - no letter. 

3. 2 years experience as an undergrad, one first author pending. 

4. 2 years as a research tech at an ivy league school, 2 letters from there. 

5. 2 publications, one co-first author in review, and several pending. 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Usual stuff, nothing fancy. 

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I work out a lot?

Special Bonus Points: Friends with several faculty at Princeton who helped me out.

Applying to Where:

Harvard - BBS

MIT - Biology

MIT - Comp Bio

Stanford - Genetics

UCSF - Biology

UPenn - Mol Bio

UPenn - Bio

Columbia - Biology

Caltech - Biology

Duke - Genetics

UW - Genome Sciences

Yale - MCDB

 

Accepted - Harvard BBS, Duke, UW, Caltech, Yale, Upenn (both programs), Columbia, Stanford.

Rejected - MIT, UCSF

 

Not terrible. Time to get to work at grad school. 

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Congrats on your acceptances, but just to clarify, you didn't apply this (Fall 2016) application cycle right? Stanford Biosciences hasn't had its admissions weekend yet.

[Earl]

  On 2/20/2016 at 5:52 AM, thorerges said:

 

Undergrad Institution: Unknown public school, no reputation at all, no resources. 
Major(s): Molecular Biology, Chemistry
Minor(s): Mathematics, Computer Sciences
GPA in Major: 3.83
Overall GPA: 3.78
Type of Student: Male - being a minority doesn't help anyway. 

GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 87th percentile
V: 80th percentile
W: 98th percentile




Research Experience: 

1. REU at Caltech at a big lab. Got a letter from there. 

2. REU at a lab at Harvard, did terribly - no letter. 

3. 2 years experience as an undergrad, one first author pending. 

4. 2 years as a research tech at an ivy league school, 2 letters from there. 

5. 2 publications, one co-first author in review, and several pending. 

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Usual stuff, nothing fancy. 

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I work out a lot?

Special Bonus Points: Friends with several faculty at Princeton who helped me out.

Applying to Where:

Harvard - BBS

MIT - Biology

MIT - Comp Bio

Stanford - Genetics

UCSF - Biology

UPenn - Mol Bio

UPenn - Bio

Columbia - Biology

Caltech - Biology

Duke - Genetics

UW - Genome Sciences

Yale - MCDB

 

Accepted - Harvard BBS, Duke, UW, Caltech, Yale, Upenn (both programs), Columbia, Stanford.

Rejected - MIT, UCSF

 

Not terrible. Time to get to work at grad school. 

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with offers like that, how do you make the final decision on where to go??

[michi1987]

has anyone heard back from moffitt/USF yet?

[thorerges]

  On 2/20/2016 at 8:48 AM, jaesango said:

Congrats on your acceptances, but just to clarify, you didn't apply this (Fall 2016) application cycle right? Stanford Biosciences hasn't had its admissions weekend yet.

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Thanks!! Stanford gave me a call and said I am accepted, as did UW and Caltech. 

[thorerges]

  On 2/20/2016 at 12:32 PM, Earl said:

with offers like that, how do you make the final decision on where to go??

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Well, I applied last year to Harvard and MIT and they rejected me. This year I just applied everywhere I can but I knew all along I wanted to go to Harvard or MIT - for Genomics those are the top 2 choices for most grad applicants. Good luck with everything!

[Infinito]

  On 2/19/2016 at 7:23 PM, Earl said:

grats! me too!!

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  On 2/19/2016 at 6:48 PM, Ferroportin said:

Got an acceptance call from my top choice - UCSF BMS!! So excited!

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Ditto! Got it while I was interviewing at another place.
So happy to have one of my top choices!

[Microburritology]

  On 2/20/2016 at 8:22 PM, thorerges said:

Thanks!! Stanford gave me a call and said I am accepted, as did UW and Caltech. 

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Wait without the interview? And which program did you apply to at Yale? Yale just had it'd second weekend for BBS and they haven't given any admission offers yet (not as far as I know)!

Just to clarify, did you apply to this cycle (Fall 2016 admissions) or the previous years cycle?

[immuno91]

  On 2/22/2016 at 2:58 PM, Microburritology said:

Wait without the interview? And which program did you apply to at Yale? Yale just had it'd second weekend for BBS and they haven't given any admission offers yet (not as far as I know)!

Just to clarify, did you apply to this cycle (Fall 2016 admissions) or the previous years cycle?

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95% certain it's b.s. Especially given that Stanford has been adamant about only interviewing people during their single interview weekend.

[Microburritology]

Haha well I was worried for a minute, and had a feeling it was bs but didn't have the confidence to go ahead and call it out - Thanks!  

  On 2/22/2016 at 3:23 PM, immuno91 said:

95% certain it's b.s. Especially given that Stanford has been adamant about only interviewing people during their single interview weekend.

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[thorerges]

  On 2/22/2016 at 3:23 PM, immuno91 said:

95% certain it's b.s. Especially given that Stanford has been adamant about only interviewing people during their single interview weekend.

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Whatever makes you feel better - I can assure you I am not the only person who has gotten a phone call with an acceptance. Regardless, I ended up choosing Harvard. 

[thorerges]

  On 2/22/2016 at 2:58 PM, Microburritology said:

Wait without the interview? And which program did you apply to at Yale? Yale just had it'd second weekend for BBS and they haven't given any admission offers yet (not as far as I know)!

Just to clarify, did you apply to this cycle (Fall 2016 admissions) or the previous years cycle?

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I applied this cycle. Yale MCDB.

[tardigrade]

  On 2/22/2016 at 4:55 PM, thorerges said:

I applied this cycle. Yale MCDB.

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Which interview weekend did you attend? I attended the first weekend for MCDB and have not heard back yet.

[Microburritology]

  On 2/22/2016 at 4:55 PM, thorerges said:

I applied this cycle. Yale MCDB.

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Well then its not possible that you've heard back. We were clearly told by the Dean that the decisions will be released the first week of March.

But really though, why would you take the pains of creating a profile just to troll people? Is your life really that sad?

Edited February 22, 2016 by Microburritology

[kreimer]

  On 2/19/2016 at 4:59 PM, Tusenpo said:

Anyone heard back from Yale BBSB?

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No I haven't heard back yet

[immuno91]

  On 2/22/2016 at 8:11 PM, Microburritology said:

Well then its not possible that you've heard back. We were clearly told by the Dean that the decisions will be released the first week of March.

But really though, why would you take the pains of creating a profile just to troll people? Is your life really that sad or did all your "accepted colleges" roundly reject you?

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Well, this is awkward.

[Effloresce]

Did Vanderbilt get back to people from the unusually large second interview weekend?

[Infinito]

  On 2/22/2016 at 9:29 PM, immuno91 said:

Well, this is awkward.

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  On 2/22/2016 at 8:11 PM, Microburritology said:

 

Well then its not possible that you've heard back. We were clearly told by the Dean that the decisions will be released the first week of March.

But really though, why would you take the pains of creating a profile just to troll people? Is your life really that sad?

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Looks like instead of To Catch a Predator, we now have To Catch a Troll.

[YouCantBcereus]

  On 2/22/2016 at 9:50 PM, Effloresce said:

Did Vanderbilt get back to people from the unusually large second interview weekend?

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I haven't heard anything yet 

[Effloresce]

  On 2/22/2016 at 11:25 PM, YouCantBcereus said:

I haven't heard anything yet 

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 I'm sorry to hear that. That's so odd. :/

[Caffeine Junky]

  On 2/20/2016 at 5:22 PM, michi1987 said:

has anyone heard back from moffitt/USF yet?

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I haven't, they said they would most likely call today but i haven't heard anything yet

[michi1987]

  On 2/23/2016 at 12:24 AM, Caffeine Junky said:

I haven't, they said they would most likely call today but i haven't heard anything yet

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Thats what I heard too and slightly why I am losing my mind right now haha. Thanks for replying though, makes me feel a little better!