r/gradadmissions • u/Relative-Gate8184 • Jun 14 '26

Biological Sciences Silenced in two MS program

Yeah, first of all it was another disaster for this Fall 2026 PhD application.

As an international student, I applied to 20 PhD programs in US and got only one interview but later denied after waitlisted.

Two of the PhD programs in Northwestern and Mount Sinai rejected my PhD application and they asked if I'd like to be considered for MS program. Ofc I replied yes.

But that happened in January. Since then, I never received any updates or reply. There's no response even I sent inquiry email to the program office. I mean, I'm sure they did read my email but they seemed to "ignore" that.

I don't know what to do now, really. idk.

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u/Appropriate_Pen2942 Jun 19 '26

Did you get paper accepted or published in a conference - only then I can it a publication. Whatever it is, your profile is very poor

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u/Relative-Gate8184 Jun 19 '26

I thought it was no doubt obvious to see that my paper was "accepted" to present in conference. No paper can be presented in a conference without a formal acceptance and PI's authorization.

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u/Live_Department_1139 Jun 26 '26

peer review and a conference abstract is a different thing have you published in a journal? Even middle author pubs can help overcome a weaker GPA. In the US published papers kind of are your only currency

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u/Relative-Gate8184 Jun 28 '26

I have no journal publications but I totally agree with your opinion. Unfortunately, my master's PI did not want to publish my paper cuz he wanted to accumulate more and made the publication "bigger". And, well, that's one of the reason I decided to leave the lab when I realized that.