Email to check portal.

Texas A&M Institution of Bioscience and Technology in Houston. This is my only hope. If you have other preferred options, I would really appreciate your help.

Received an email from one of the grad coordinators and also got an alert in my UF Admissions portal.

Just a heads-up for anyone thinking about joining: UMass Chan is currently a disaster. They’ve over-enrolled the cohort to the point where there aren't enough lab spots for everyone, so many are stuck in labs they weren’t interested in. To make matters worse, the Dean is completely indifferent to student struggles. If you have visa issues, want to switch labs, or fail your QE, you're on your own. They care only about their ambitious agenda of expanding cohort sizes and reducing time to graduation, but not the actual humans doing the work. 0/10 would not recommend.

co-author patent, co-first author, independent project (conceptualized and built on). 2/3 oral presentations

rejected via email (2/18) & portal updated yesterday (2/22/26)

Master’s CGPA : 3.58, Published Paper : 1, Submitted Paper : 2

Interviewed Dec 12. 24 interviewed that day, with 2 other interview days. I've been working for 8 years, minimal research experience and no publications.