Dream program, I hope to get off the list

Thank you for the post below - their ways of doing things are so hard to predicted. Every year is different.

Yay! I applied to the animal models of disease track and attended the first interview weekend in late January. Received my acceptance email from the program coordinator.

TPPB: Wes Grueber - I applied Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience and interviewed in the first weekend. Good luck to everyone waiting, I think different co-directors notify for different specializations.

TPPB: Which co-director sent you the email?

Reached out to SIPA and was told that 'Admissions decisions should come out early next month' - i.e. early March 2021.

YESSSSSSS!! An incredibly kind and enthusiastic email from the program director!!!

Interviewed with 1 Epi Prof on 02/18 said the admissions committee would be meeting that week, and notices will start going out in the coming weeks.

Not a great interview experience so this result was expected

Emailed admission department re: timeline. Reply stated that application still under review, decisions usually come out first two weeks of March

TBBP: I obtained my undergraduate degree from a top5 public university (GPA 3.93) in US and my master degree from a top1 university in a Asia country. Undergraduate: high-energy experiment, one conference (APS annual meeting) and one talk. Master: 1 publication in optics (IF: 4.69, first author, featured as cover) , 1 manuscript in preparation. The interview was quite "informal" (no slides), and the professor asked about my research experiences (basically why I shifted so much and why interested in AMO) and why I wanted to go Columbia. Then she introduced her research projects and asked me which one interested me most. She said that the offer will be sent no later than early March and she believed that it may be done in Feb. (In fact this interview is quite urgent that I received the email on 02/20 to schedule an interview and the time was determined to be on 02/21 evening, quite surprising for me)

TBBP: To the international applicant below: Can you tell a bit about your background and how did your interview go? Are they done sending out interview notifications?

TTPB who got accepted: Did you have an interview? If you don't mind, could you please share your field?

TTPB: Can you let me the name/initials of your POI ? (The PhD - MS Track poster)

PhD-Track MSc

Unofficial email from program director. Official letter and other pertinent information to follow this month. Crossing my fingers for funding =) Super excited, it's my top choice. Best of luck to everyone looking into this program.

Got email to check portal