dirty ethel rackham Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 For those of you who know about applying to grad school ... Ds graduated with a BS in Biology in December and has applied to graduate programs in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology. He has good GRE scores, a very good GPA, and quite a bit of research experience (including co-authorship on a paper submitted for publication.) He was a little late in contacting professors at prospective universities (he started in November when apps were due in December.) Some of you may remember my panicked post back then trying to help him get back on track since his adviser was not very available to him at the time. So far, he has only heard back from one university so far and has been invited to a prospective graduate student weekend at that program. When should he expect to hear from other schools? Is it a bad sign that he has not heard back from any of the other professors at the other schools? Is there something he should be doing now? Should he contact those professors at the other schools asking if they have had a chance to review his submission? His plan B, should he not get into accepted to something that he wants, is to work, retake the GRE to up his quantitative score (decent, but could be better), take the GRE Biology test (he didn't know he should take it) and reapply next fall, spending more time talking to professors at prospective schools. He just got a temp job doing water sampling and analysis for the water reclamation district. He's hoping that will lead to another job in the meantime. Any advice I can pass off to him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Many universities are still on Winter Break until next week. I wouldn't worry about it too much until the end of Jan or beginning of Feb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwen in VA Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 My dd heard from her top choice grad school in VERY early January, but none of her friends heard back from their schools until late January - early February. He should be patient for at least a few more weeks..... (easier said than done!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Thanks for the reassurance. We were getting a little freaked out about one school that has their main interview date in mid-February and he heard from a school that has a later date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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