it is my great pleasure to inform you that you have been invited to the Einstein PhD Fellowship Selection Symposium. You have been selected from a pool of many competitive candidates to join the last admission round. This means you will not be asked for Skype interviews. The symposium will take place on March 31st – April 3rd, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. During these four days, you will have the opportunity to present yourself and your past research projects and will also get to know the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin. Further information will follow once all Skype interviews are finished. Please send the confirmation of your attendance latest by February 28th, 2020 We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin. Kind regards

5 years research experience. I've worked at Weill Cornell for the past 3 years. Masters degree, 4 publications, 4 posters at AACR. All LOR from professors at WCMC. Pretty confused.

Sad because I connected with a professor very well and she made it sound like she was super interested in me as well. Generic email saying the application pool was strong. and they received more than 1,000 application. 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).

Generic email saying the application pool was strong. Upset but not unexpected given my GPA. 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).

Generic email stating that there were an overwhelming amount of applicants but I am being considered for the masters in neurobiology.

Good luck to everyone applying!

I figured from the amount of time that passed

TTPB: Congrats to those who have received offer! Is that a formal email or just email from PI? I’m just trying to figure out if all offers have been sent out. I haven’t heard of anything since the first interview weekend, so I’m quite nervous.

This is expected. Did not have any interview or communication with PI.

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!