u/LateCake246

Essentially I’m really unsure of my path for undergrad. My goal is a PhD in computational neuroscience and hopefully a top program for it. At my local school (not prestigious) I can graduate in 2 years since I got a lot of credits in high school, but it doesn’t necessarily have computational neuroscience research or BCI research. It’s free though for me. I could try to transfer to a top school, but even then it’s not guaranteed and there’s only a limited amount of top schools that give good enough aid for me. My parents really don’t want to spend much. I’m just really worried that if I graduate from my local school I’ll be cooked with no experience in computational neuroscience research so won’t be able to apply for a PhD and it’s not prestigious.

I really don’t care about the prestige of my undergrad if I can find a way to make it to a top PhD program in computational neuroscience. Is it worth the transfer? Is the prestige even worth it? Is there a path that I’m not seeing?

Seems like JHU is one of the last waitlists remaining....

I posted this under a transfer subreddit but didn’t get many replies so hoping I could get more in a grad school subreddit (related):

Essentially I am an incoming undergraduate student at Bowling Green State University. I am majoring in Math + AI but I want to go into computational neuroscience and work with Brain-Computer Interfaces. My main reason of considering transferring is that a professor explicitly told me that no professor at BG does any work with what I'm interested in.

The thing is though, I could graduate from BG within 2 years (got a bunch of credits in high school) and its free for me through external scholarships. My long term goal at the moment is to get a PhD in computational neuroscience. My main worry is that I think that if I graduate from BG that I won't be able to get a top masters/PhD acceptance after 2 years due to limited experience. Of course, if I try to transfer to a top school it'd be expensive and it'd take longer to graduate but I'd be immersed in the research I want to do and help me build a competitive PhD application.

I'm honestly just worried of the "unknown" if I graduate from BG.

Essentially I am an incoming undergraduate student at Bowling Green State University. I am majoring in Math + AI but I want to go into computational neuroscience and work with Brain-Computer Interfaces. My main reason of considering transferring is that a professor explicitly told me that no professor at BG does any work with what I'm interested in.

The thing is though, I could graduate from BG within 2 years (got a bunch of credits in high school) and its free for me through external scholarships. My long term goal at the moment is to get a PhD in computational neuroscience. My main worry is that I think that if I graduate from BG that I won't be able to get a top masters/PhD acceptance after 2 years due to limited experience. Of course, if I try to transfer to a top school it'd be expensive and it'd take longer to graduate but I'd be immersed in the research I want to do and help me build a competitive PhD application.

I'm honestly just worried of the "unknown" if I graduate from BG.

I’ve been on the waitlist since February and it’s almost July🥲😅

Genuinely what is up with their waitlist this year

edit: typo in title has anyone gotten off the JHU wl

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I’m curious because the first year waitlist is absolutely fried so wondering if the transfer wl is like that too

I still am lol

I emailed them and they said they’re still looking at the class size and still deciding if they can admit people off the waitlist…

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Currently waitlisted and this year they said that acceptances will roll out until the 2nd week of August and they’ve barely admitted anyone (possibly 0 still) so I’m just wondering if it’s always been like this or if this year is an anomaly

It’s almost the middle of June bro if they’re not gonna admit anyone just close it atp

Incoming freshman at a low-ranked 4-year university aiming for schools like UChicago/JHU for sophomore transfer: Working a PT job at a fast food chain during the summer for 30 hours a week. Once college starts I'm planning to cut hours to 10-15 hours at the fast food chain and I might become an on-campus tutor (5-10hrs/wk?).

Apparently, there was an anomalous 18% WL acceptance rate last year according to the 25-26 CDS. Hopefully since June is tomorrow and transfer students have to commit by tmr they will start taking students off the waitlist 🙏😅. This has to be one of the craziest years for the waitlist it’s so late

Ik its been like 2 months since Ivy Day, but I was rejected from HYPSM and waitlisted at JHU (most likely gonna be a rejection)

I had pretty good stats and ECs (14 APs, 4.5GPA, research etc)

I'm committed to a local state school and committed on transferring and I have a plan for that but I still in the back of my head am still sad over those rejections esp since one of my classmates got into harvard and yale and cornell. And not to mention another classmate got into JHU and not me. Ppl knew me as the smart kid that was most likely gonna get into an ivy but I didn't live up to it.

I'm an incoming student at Bowling Green State University, and I think I am going to transfer out after 1 year since they don't offer the program I want (a professor I reached out to explicitly told me that no one at BG does research in the niche I want to go into)

I chose BG since of the available options I had it is free for me and it's close to home.

I just wanted to ask if the summer before 1st year of college is especially important for transfer apps (aiming for selective schools like JHU and UChicago), and if my current summer plan was fine:

Working a Part-Time Job (25-30hrs/wk)

Self studying some courses I'm interested in and to try to opt out of taking them my 1st year via credit-by-exam (Calc 3, Lin Alg)

I also have a research opportunity lined up thats kind of related to what I'm interested in so I'm going to do that as well.

Son why tf have they not released ANYONE yet?? There’s no way that waitlist is going until August

The FRQs were pretty easy aside from the 1st FRQ (solving for acceleration was tricky), and the MCQ was also really easy (only had like 5 flagged for review).

Has anyone got any notification from JHU regarding anything from the waitlist???? Feeling a bit cryptic rn. Hoping it's not one of those years where they take no one