<p>I'm going to kick this off because... well, I'm already getting restless. I'm looking at Microbiology & or Immunology programs at the following locations:</p>
<p>Sloan-Kettering
Einstein
NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Partnership Program
Cornell Weill
University of Michigan
University of Wisconsin
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
University of California - San Francisco
Scripps Research Institute
Louis Pasteur Institute
... any other suggestions would be helpful!</p>
<p>My stats are as follows:
3.33 Overall GPA
3.70 Major GPA in Medical Microbiology & Immunology
GRE: (took today) 710Q 560V... disappointed with the verbal score.
1 1/2 years of microbiology research as an undergraduate at UW-Madison
2 years of immunology research at National Institutes of Health as a Research Fellow</p>
<p>I haven’t finalized my list yet but pretty sure I’ll apply to these so far. I’m also looking at Micro & Immunology. More interested in the latter.</p>
<p>Rockefeller
Georgetown
UPenn
Emory
Dartmouth
UT Southwestern
Tufts?</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.63
GRE: 700V 750Q
3 years of undergrad research; 1 publication as a tech way down the list, 1 co-author review paper, 1 just submitted in review</p>
<p>Good luck to this batch of applicants. Don’t forget to remind your premed friends of how nice and rational the grad school application process is compared to their AMCAS craziness. :P</p>
<p>I’d be coming back next few months to this thread. Now my morale is somewhat shaking to the extent that I don’t want to make a fool of myself. :D</p>
<p>So, I have decided to weigh in since I have been watching this for the last two years and I wanted some people to give their advice and their opinions.</p>
<p>I just graduated from a large research oriented state school. I transferred to this school my junior year from another equally solid state school since I wanted to be with my girlfriend. </p>
<p>I will be applying to a mix of chembio interface programs and biochem programs.</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA:Cum 3.8 major 3.7
1st author paper in review
3rd author paper about to be submitted to a top journal
3 Protein Data Bank Structures
1 abstract from a poster at a national undergrad conference
multiple poster presentations (First place in my major for research poster)
Won an undergraduate grant and also won three competitive summer stipends for research </p>
<p>4 years research experience
1.5 in First school and will get a solid rec from that PI
2 years in a lab of a leader in their field. Has said I will get glowing rec
Currently working for the year in another lab for my year off before graduate and this prof has also said I will get a stellar rec. All have told me I should put in my app to teir 1 schools.</p>
<p>Heres the problem. I did very poorly my GRE’s 450V and 690Q and am extremely nervous now. I am going to retake, but lets pretend these scores hold, will they prevent me from acceptance to the top schools?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance I really appreciate the imput.</p>
<p>I think you should probably retake the GREs. Although your research looks top notch (I’m jealous of the 4 years and those papers and structures), I would be worried that I wouldn’t meet the cut off for some schools. Do you have your AW score yet? Obviously the GRE isn’t something that is entirely indicative of grad school so I would talk to some people you may be interested in doing work with and see what they think.</p>
<p>I haven’t finalized my list yet either, but here goes. Looking at Molecular bio or similar everywhere.</p>
<p>UCSD
Scripps Research Institute
UCLA
UCI
UCB
City of Hope
Cold Spring Harbor
NYU</p>
<p>Stats:
Graduating this June from Caltech with BS in Chemistry
3.5 GPA (honors at Caltech), 3.3 in Chemistry, 3.3 in Biology
GRE: 720 Q, 620 V Don’t know percentiles or AW yet because I took it yesterday. Might retake depending on what my advisor has to say about that 720 Q.
Taking the Biochem & Molecular Bio Subject test in October.
Research: 1.5 years in a well-known lab. 5th author publication in Immunity. Summer research internship at a Japanese company.
Other: TA’d a chemistry lab course for 3 terms.</p>
<p>Advice on the list would be appreciated. I get the feeling I’m aiming too high but I’m really not sure.</p>
<p>ImmunoNIH (and anybody else), if you have the time, you might want to check out the UMich’s PiBS PREVIEW program ([Program</a> in Biomedical Science: U-M Medical School](<a href=“http://www.med.umich.edu/pibs/prospective/events/index.htm]Program”>http://www.med.umich.edu/pibs/prospective/events/index.htm)). The application’s due on September 27th, but–if you’re accepted–the school pays for your airfare and hotel. You spend three days networking, hanging out with other prospective applicants, doing fun stuff (like Whirly Ball, ice cream socials, etc) and you do two to four mock interviews with faculty.</p>
<p>It’s not a guaranteed admission, but I’d say it definitely helps. I attended it last year and I’m now a happy first-year student here at UMich. Send me a PM if you end up attending!</p>
<p>For international applicants or others who are wondering which programs under the UMich’s PiBS do not accept international applicants, click on the following link:</p>
<p>The following programs DO NOT accept international applicants through PIBS:</p>
<pre><code>* Biological Chemistry
Cancer Biology
Cellular & Molecular Biology
Immunology
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Pharmacology
</code></pre>
<p>*Microbiology & Immunology will accept applications from international students ONLY if they are currently undergraduates in the U.S. with an F1 visa.</p>
<p>I received an invitation email from Berkeley’s EDGE grad preview weekend last week, but no word from MIT. So, I was wondering if any of you have applied to the MIT Converge grad preview weekend and if so any news yet?</p>
<p>It’s only Oct and I already feel overwhelmed :)</p>
<p>Interest in biochem/genetics. My list is nowhere near finalized, but here goes:</p>
<p>UCB
Northwestern
Caltech
UCSD
Yale
Harvard
Columbia
Scripps
Standford
UCLA
MIT
UIUC</p>
<p>GPA 3.66 honors, over 2 yrs research with honors thesis
More stats to come soon.</p>
<p>I still have to take the GRE this month, and subject test (biochem) in NOV to see if I can even make the cut (I am most likely aiming too high). Anyone else taking the subject test?</p>
<p>Check to see if the schools you are applying to actually require the subject test. I applied to some schools from that list (for neuroscience) and it was optional.</p>
