email to check the portal... Saddd

Email to check website portal.

An email was send to look at the decision letter on the online application page. Rejected from the stem cell biology program at Stanford, but interviews at other top schools so feeling okay!

Email to check portal, where generic rejection letter was posted. Very much expected as this was a total reach. Wishing the best of luck to those with interviews!

Not surprising due to the large number of applicants, but sad. Applied to the Hopkins Marine Station track.

this late in the season it was expected

What a joke of a program....barely any funding.

TTPB, I agree with most of the points, just want to add that people might not report their rejection as much as admissions. So maybe many people who got interviewed but got rejected later during the past years didn't really post the rejections, given the anonymity here. Just a thought :)

Stupid University admits only students who have secured funding from outside Stanford.

If they screened people out can they just send out the rejections? This is killing all of us. Just in case they accept someone in the rejection pile I bet no one will complain about that.

Interviewed last week

TTPB: Thanks for the information. I wonder how will they select 'k' candidates? If they had already ranked candidates then why bothering taking interviews for candidates, not in top 'k'? I checked gradcafe for the rejection after the interview post from 2017-2020, seems like only a couple of people get rejected after the interview. I am just speculating, we have to wait for one more week. My interview was taken by POI mentioned in SoP, but he hasn't read my SoP for sure. Maybe the committee screened the candidates and forwarded them to POI for their further comments.

TTPB: have contacted some people who either worked at Stanford as an intern or are doing a PhD there. Basically, they send out twice the amount of interview invites as those they can admit. The interviewers are on the behalf of the committee, but judging from the posts here it seems that most candidates are interviewed by their POI for some reason. My guess is that getting an interview only means a profile is in the top 2k (k = admits), so interview results are only supplementary.

3 interviews from Feb 1 to Feb 8. Decisions to be released early March.