Summer Research Acceptance Thread (REU, SURF, SURP, SIP, etc.) - 2009/2010

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I applied to only 4 progams (I go to Vanderbilt, but my parents live in Texas, so I applied to a lot of programs back home):

UTMB-SURP-Galaveston
UTMB-Houston's Summer Research Program
MD Anderson Cancer Centers Summer Research Program
Baylor College of Medicine's Summer Program---I know I am not getting into this one, because they hardly ever take freshman.


I won't find out about the decisions from these programs until late March/early April
 
I've received an acceptance via e-mail already.
 
ColeOnTheRoll said:
Hopkins SIP and Vandy SSA. Both will decide by March 1.
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How'd you like that Hopkins email we got a couple of weeks ago? Something like 1095 applicants for... I don't know how many spots, not very many. I'm pretty much banking on not seeing Baltimore this summer 😛
 
plasmidgreen said:
How'd you like that Hopkins email we got a couple of weeks ago? Something like 1095 applicants for... I don't know how many spots, not very many. I'm pretty much banking on not seeing Baltimore this summer 😛
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Hah, yeah that was somewhat disheartening. Oh well, hope for the best I suppose.
 
I think 1000+ applicants is fairly standard for any big name SURP, SURF, SIP, etc.

Isn't Hopkins up to ~55 slots now? I forget how many positions the Immunology and Biochemistry programs added to the grand SIP.

I'll share the program when March 1st rolls around if this thread is still alive.
 
For those of you that were accepted, how many had research experience prior to applying? Is prior research experience expected to be a competitive applicant to these programs?
 
i applied to:

Vandy SSA
Einstein SURP
and Roswell Cancer Institute SURP.

Anyone else apply to these? Additionally, if anyone has heard a decision in regards to these, please let me know.
 
Flex said:
For those of you that were accepted, how many had research experience prior to applying? Is prior research experience expected to be a competitive applicant to these programs?
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Prior research experience is definitely expected to be competitive. Of course that doesn't mean you can't get in without it. This has been my experience:

1. Summer after freshman year, had 1 semester of "clinical" research, no wet lab experience except bio lab, applied to ~10 SURP/SURF programs. Got rejected from all except Health Research Training Program in NYC. Didn't go because it sounded like a waste of time (would have been classifying mosquitoes).

2. Summer after sophomore year, had 3 semesters of "clinical" research, still no bench research, but I had taken an upperlevel course on the visual system and biochem. I applied to ~8 programs, got into CUNY Hunter and Univ Cincinnati Physician Scientist SURF. Went to UC in a lab studying development of the eye.

3. Summer after junior year, had previous experience under my belt, plus 2 more semesters of genetics research. Applied to ~6 programs (Albert Einstein, Sloan kettering, Jackson Lab, Columbia/Amgen, Cornell-Weill Travelers). Got into Columbia/Amgen and Cornell-Weill, and went to Columbia.

It seems to me that experience plays a pretty big role in your chances to getting into programs, even though they say "prior research is not required." Most of the time PI's of the labs hand-pick from candidates to choose whom they want to work with, so it makes sense that they would like someone who has experience, or at least someone who has a good science background that they can learn easily.

Admission committees and PI's for summer programs are looking for relevant candidates, people who are clearly interested in their labs and will be productive.
 
I applied to: Harvard SHURP, MIT Amgen, Columbia Amgen, Stanford Amgen, UCSF Amgen, Cornell Travelers, NYU SURP, Yale BioStep, and UPenn USSP.

Last year (summer between sophomore and junior years), I applied to UCSF, Penn, and NYU. Accepted to UCSF and Penn, went to UCSF.

So far I've only had one decision which was an acceptance letter from NYU SURP. I'll see what the other decisions are, but it's nice to know I have a spot in lower Manhattan. If anyone else applied to NYU, evidently there were over 1050 applications for the ~24 spots available. I just searched my email and saw that I received their rejection letter last year on 3/2 and received their acceptance letter this year on 2/17.
 
Beta Cell said:
I applied to: Harvard SHURP, MIT Amgen, Columbia Amgen, Stanford Amgen, UCSF Amgen, Cornell Travelers, NYU SURP, Yale BioStep, and UPenn USSP.

Last year (summer between sophomore and junior years), I applied to UCSF, Penn, and NYU. Accepted to UCSF and Penn, went to UCSF.

So far I've only had one decision which was an acceptance letter from NYU SURP. I'll see what the other decisions are, but it's nice to know I have a spot in lower Manhattan. If anyone else applied to NYU, evidently there were over 1050 applications for the ~24 spots available. I just searched my email and saw that I received their rejection letter last year on 3/2 and received their acceptance letter this year on 2/17.
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Just out of curiosity, do you tell the programs you're applying to that you're interested in MD/PhD?
 
Did anyone apply to the Sloan-Kettering SURP program? I already got my acceptance but I am on the fence as to what to do. They want me to reply by March 1 with my decision, but I also applied to the Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia's Amgen Scholars Programs and I won't know about those decisions until March 1st!

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I should do??
 
thewangsterrr said:
Did anyone apply to the Sloan-Kettering SURP program? I already got my acceptance but I am on the fence as to what to do. They want me to reply by March 1 with my decision, but I also applied to the Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia's Amgen Scholars Programs and I won't know about those decisions until March 1st!

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I should do??
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Congrats, when did you get your acceptance?
 
thewangsterrr said:
Did anyone apply to the Sloan-Kettering SURP program? I already got my acceptance but I am on the fence as to what to do. They want me to reply by March 1 with my decision, but I also applied to the Stanford, Berkeley, and Columbia's Amgen Scholars Programs and I won't know about those decisions until March 1st!

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I should do??
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I don't know much about the Sloan Kettering Program, but last summer's Amgen was amazing. They totally hook you up-housing, stipend, free trip to L.A., etc etc 👍
 
The acceptance I'm holding is for NYU's SURP as well.

I also applied to:

UR SSP
Mayo SURF
Vanderbilt UCRIP
JHU SIP
NIH
MMCRI SSRP (non-university)
RPCI SREU (non-university)

Last year I applied to:

JHU SIP
UR (2 different programs)
Home University (internal program)

I only made it into the internal program at my home university last year. To re-iterate what tinery wrote, I feel prior research experience is huge for these programs. When I applied last year, I only had ~1.5 years of bench lab experience with a minor pre-freshman entry summer program. This year, I applied with an additional year of bench lab work, a summer program, and two oral presentations.

I also told the programs I intend to apply M.D./Ph.D. come the 2010-2011 application cycle.
 
Still waiting to hear back from DAAD/RISE (Germany). Only one I applied to.

Also hoping for NSF scholarship and Pi Kap scholarship.

:xf::xf::xf:
 
I applied to:
Einstein SURP
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Baylor SMART program
Rochester Vision Sciences Summer Program
MHIRT Neuroscience International Program

I have yet to receive any acceptance/rejection letters...should be any day now though...if anyone hears anything, please reply to this thread! Thanks!
 
noooo! Does that mean I got rejected from the NYU or Sloan K SURP programs? I applied to basically every program people listed above but I haven't recieved any acceptances. I got into Stony Brook's HHMI and UPenn last year but nothing so far this year... 🙁
 
Rhinex60 said:
noooo! Does that mean I got rejected from the NYU or Sloan K SURP programs? I applied to basically every program people listed above but I haven't recieved any acceptances. I got into Stony Brook's HHMI and UPenn last year but nothing so far this year... 🙁
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The reply date for NYU isn't until like March 21st. They told us in the email that they did have a wait list compiled, so there still might be hope.
 
damn. Just got rejected from the Sloan-Kettering program. Has anyone done the Rockefeller SURP in the past years or gotten into it yet?
 
Rhinex60 said:
damn. Just got rejected from the Sloan-Kettering program.
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Same (fortunately it was my least favorite program). I've applied to nine others: Amgens at MIT, Berkeley, UCSD, UCSF; MIT Bioengineering; UCSD Bioengineering; Harvard FAS/Systems Biology; Princeton Molecular/Quantitative Biology; and Harvard Wyss Institute REU.
 
I applied to 4 programs this year.

NYU SURP
Harvard SHURP
Harvard HIP
Stanford Amgen

So far I've only been accepted to NYU. I got my acceptance on 2/16. I am really excited! I had a friend that did the program two years ago and they absolutely loved it.
 
Wow, I didn't apply to that many competitive programs as you guys, just some summer programs from at my state's medical school. I knew that the more competitive programs don't really like accepting freshman----->sophomores so I decided to apply to less competitive ones.

Does anyone know if the programs I applied to, are extremely difficult to get into?

I applied to these 3(I know Baylor is extremely hard to get into, but what about the other ones)?:

UTMB-SURP-Galveston
UTMB-Houston's Summer Research Program
UTMB-MD Anderson Cancer Centers Summer Research Program
Baylor College of Medicine's Summer Program---I know I am not getting into this one, because they hardly ever take freshman.
 
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How did NYU SURP notify you of your acceptance? Was it through email?
 
These are the programs that I applied to:

Harvard HSCI SIP
WashU BiomedRAP
NYU SURP
NIH SIP
Sloan SURP
Rockafeller SURF
harvard Immunology
Dartmouth SURF
University of Pittsburg SURP

So far, I've gotten rejected from Sloan SURP and placed on the waitlist for Harvard HSCI SIP. I'm really bummed out about Sloan, since I wanted to work in a particular lab at Sloan.

I'm really hoping that I'll hear back from Rockafeller though. Did anybody apply to Rockafeller SURF?
 
staphkills said:
These are the programs that I applied to:

Harvard HSCI SIP
WashU BiomedRAP
NYU SURP
NIH SIP
Sloan SURP
Rockafeller SURF
harvard Immunology
Dartmouth SURF
University of Pittsburg SURP

So far, I've gotten rejected from Sloan SURP and placed on the waitlist for Harvard HSCI SIP. I'm really bummed out about Sloan, since I wanted to work in a particular lab at Sloan.

I'm really hoping that I'll hear back from Rockafeller though. Did anybody apply to Rockafeller SURF?
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Yeah, I did. I am still waiting to hear from them too. I applied to the Harvard SHURP, Dartmouth SURP, Rockefeller SURP, NYU SURP ( No acceptance but no rejection either, most kids got it 3/1 last year so probably get it around then too) and a handful of other programs. Let's hope I get into somewhere..
 
I got an email this morning with an acceptance to the Harvard SHURP program. So, so, so, so, so, sooooo stoked! Good luck to whoever else applied to it, sounds like it's going to be an epic summer.
 
I've applied to nearly 30 programs, and I swear every time another thread mentions high GPA's, a bevy of research, and the rich LORs I can hear the chuckles from admission committees! :laugh:
 
I just spoke with the Harvard SHURP people and they told me final decisions had not been sent out yet. That guy Acoustics who joined in this month and has 5 posts all dedicated to Harvard SHURP and all today sounds like a troll possibly. Someone has to be giving me incorrect information, lol.
 
Beta Cell said:
I just spoke with the Harvard SHURP people and they told me final decisions had not been sent out yet. That guy Acoustics who joined in this month and has 5 posts all dedicated to Harvard SHURP and all today sounds like a troll possibly. Someone has to be giving me incorrect information, lol.
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Ok good. That was stressing me out. I need to stop thinking about these programs until next month!
 
Beta Cell said:
I just spoke with the Harvard SHURP people and they told me final decisions had not been sent out yet. That guy Acoustics who joined in this month and has 5 posts all dedicated to Harvard SHURP and all today sounds like a troll possibly. Someone has to be giving me incorrect information, lol.
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When I talked to the director, she said the actual letters were getting sent out this afternoon. I got my email yesterday morning. How about this, whoever gets into the program and is on this website, feel free to send me a PM and I'll let you know who I am. The reason why I made this account was because I was looking for more information on what college life was like in Boston since I'm going to be there for the summer, so that's why all the posts have been about that. What would be the point of trolling by asking about sites to see in the Boston area? Not exactly inflammatory.
 
Has anybody applied to the Max Planck Institute for summer research?
 
Has anyone heard back from the NIH SIP? I just got my last letter submitted today but they said that decisions can take up until May...
 
I got an e-mail from Harvard SHURP yesterday. I was so excited to get accepted. I am so stoked for this summer!!!!!
 
rxnfiend said:
Has anyone heard back from the NIH SIP? I just got my last letter submitted today but they said that decisions can take up until May...
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Hey, I haven't heard back from NIH since my application became complete like on Feb 1st. I think they send out acceptances on a rolling basis.


Hmmm, so it seems like NYU has already made it's decision already? I guess I will be receiving a rejection email soon.
 
Rhinex60 said:
troll with two posts, both acceptances?
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Right....or maybe people are just making accounts so they can communicate with others that will be at the same place as them for the summer? Calm down with the troll paranoia.
 
staphkills said:
Hey, I haven't heard back from NIH since my application became complete like on Feb 1st. I think they send out acceptances on a rolling basis.


Hmmm, so it seems like NYU has already made it's decision already? I guess I will be receiving a rejection email soon.
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If you want a position at the NIH, you need to be proactive and look up PIs and contact them directly. It'll be SIGNIFICANTLY more likely that you'll get offered something. THis is because it's really rare for a PI to go through the applications and find someone they like. (It doesn't go through an internal admissions system; it's sent through a huge database that the PIs can access and choose their summer interns, from what I understand) It isn't to say that people will only get positions if they contact someone, but...it's just more likely.
 
staphkills said:
Has anyone heard back from the NIH SIP? I just got my last letter submitted today but they said that decisions can take up until May...
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I was contacted by a laboratory in Bethesda through the NIH SIP about a week ago. The PI's are looking through the database for applicants. However, similar to what IHeartSleep wrote, an e-mail to potential PI's may help you to claim a spot for the summer. Otherwise, you're banking on your application to be stand-alone unique against hundreds of other applications.
 
anyone heard anything from Vandy SSA, Einstein, or Roswell Cancer programs?

still in the dark as far as decisions go for all three....
 
Applied:
+RI-INBRE -- Summer Research
+RI EPSCoR SURF Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (SURF)
+REU at ICE (Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Institute for Cellular Enginnering)
+UCLA Nanoscience Chemistry and Engineering Research NSF-REU Program
+Cntr for Scalable & Integrated Nano-Manufacturing (SINAM) Program
+UCSF - Summer Research

Acceptance(s):
N/A
 
loveoforganic said:
That's one of the options through DAAD/RISE, but no I didn't. Ultra competitive.
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I had no idea the DAAD/RISE even existed, the site I had used to compile my list of applications only had the Max Planck, Pasteur, and a Spanish site. Which program or area in the DAAD/RISE did you apply for? Whatever it is, I hope you get it. I noticed on the website the stipend and overall benefits package seems meager to some in the states, what made you want to go abroad?
 
I did REU programs during my first two undergrad summers, but I had no idea they were competitive. I wish I found SDN earlier! The first REU program I did was at my current school...I was paid over $9000. The second one I did was through Princeton, and though it paid well, it was pretty boring. I spent a week at Hopkins and presented my research there, but it's probably at the bottom of the list of things I'll mention on the AMCAS.

While summer REU programs may look decent on your resume, I can't imagine that anyone gets too much out of them. I got one publication, but it was really only a formality...
 
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