Great news!

"We received an overwhelming amount of about 650 complete applications for our PhD fellowships (and many more incomplete…). We finished the first two stages of our review and evaluation process and now the most promising 10% of all applicants will be interviewed via Skype to select the final candidates who then will be invited to our Selection Symposium. Although your application received favourable reviews, unfortunately, we have to inform you that its overall score was not strong enough to reach the next level of the application process. With more than several hundred applications for very few positions, we also have to reject many very strong applications."

To the poster below about getting waitlisted... did you call them or did they call you? I'm still waiting to hear, had an interview two weeks ago. I'm afraid that the fact that I didn't hear yet means I'm rejected.

No interview

Finally officially rejected... they had interviews last weekend so I guess they decided they had the candidates they needed. Good luck to everyone else who applied!

got a phone call from committee chair, had a nice talk with him at the interview weekend. Chicago's getting a new theoretical neuro center, pretty hyped about that!

My first choice, if you're admitted but not planning to go, please let them know! Really stressed out..

Really sad because this was my last option in terms of staying in the NYC area. I thought I would have a chance. Low GPA but a ton of research experience. 2.5 years of post-bacc research. 3 second-author pubs, 1 first-author in revision, 2 second-author in revision - all mid-tier journals (impact factor 5-10).

I am the wait-listed poster below. Just wanted to add that if you have been accepted to this program but are not planning to attend, then please let them know as soon as possible so they can offer those places to those of us on the wait list.

It was after the interview.

If you have been interviewed in person/accepted and have better offers please inform MSU ASAP so those of us on the waitlist who are really eager to attend can have the potential!

Just interviewed there last weekend. Can't believe it!!!

To waitlisted poster, was that after or before interview?

Rejected after interview.

Saw quite a few TTPBs here, so I started a topic called "Caltech (2020)" in Waiting it Out. It's a thread for all Caltech PhD applicants. Feel free to ask your questions there :)

Went for an interview, thought it went well. Generic email from program director stating that they had an overwhelming amount of applicants.