<p>[Prospective Graduate Schools]
UCBerkeley
UCSF
UCSD
MIT
Harvard
Columbia
GSK
Rockefeller
UChicago
CSHL
JHU
UMiami</p>
<p>Not sure how competitive I am. I have solid LoRs from prominent PIs, long-term research experience and grant/manuscript writing experience. I see a lot of really good applications on here, though!</p>
<p>[Undergrad. University]:Big Ten
[Undergrad. Major(s)] Molecular and Cellular Biology Minor: Political Science
[Undergrad GPA] 3.01
[Years of Research Experience] 1.5 years in multi-campus national lab
[GRE Scores] Q: 158 V: 160 A: 4.0</p>
<p>[Prospective Graduate Schools]:</p>
<p>University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Purdue University
University of Iowa
University of Illinois-Chicago
University of Notre Dame
Loyola University
Medical College of Wisconsin</p>
<p>Honestly my GPA is awful, but I have two really good letters of recommendation and a pretty decent 3rd one. Literally got told by a member of admissions at one of the schools that my best one erased my bad GPA, so I guess that’s my pocket ace. I have no idea what to expect, I just hope to get into somewhere. Been my dream for forever. Do legacies still count for anything at Notre Dame for grad school :-p just kidding.</p>
<p>I was told by some of the schools I visited that being a domestic applicant is a slight advantage. Programs with institutional training grants need to have a certain percentage of domestic students, and international students often do not qualify for the bulk of the external funding (NIH, NIMH, ect. Predoctoral grants). available here in the US. I think now and in the upcoming years, as research funding in the US continues to dwindle, the ability of domestic applicants to more readily secure funding is going to have a greater impact.</p>
<p>I also was told something similar by a professor at UW-Madison. UCSF Tetrad, for example, can only provide funding for 2 international applicants and they get ~100 applications from internationals. So competition among internationals seems to be even harder compared to domestic applicants. I only can hope to get accepted somewhere…</p>
<p>Hey thanks, I suppose I am ‘fishing for reassurance’ as many others on here… I have been embarrassingly obsessive in comparing the stats of others to my own and wondering how it’s all going to work out…</p>
<p>On another note, I was looking at last year’s Admission and Interview thread and it seemed like interview offers started going out in earnest around 12 December or so. Can we expect similar timing for this year?</p>
<p>Small liberal Arts college
Major: Chemistry (ACS certified)
GPA:3.88
Major GPA: 3.97
GRE:
156 quantitative
148 Verbal
4 analytical Writing
GRE chem: not yet received
3.5 years of research experience (4 different research groups)
3 summer research programs: 2 at my university, 1 REU at the University of Texas at Austin
Paper in progress to be submitted by 03/2012
4 good to great LOR’s</p>
<p>Prospective Schools:</p>
<p>Stanford University
California Institute of Technology
Scripps Research Institute
Princeton University
North Carolina Chapel Hill
Emory University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Colorado State University
University of Texas at Austin
Yale University</p>
<p>Undergrad University Ivy
Undergrad Major Neurobiology
Undergrad GPA 3.38
Years of research 2 biotech industry summer internships, 1 applied research course, 2 semesters & 1 summer (40 hour/week) senior thesis
GRE scores 167 Q, 162 V, 5.5 W</p>
<p>Prospective schools</p>
<p>Yale - BBS
MIT - Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT Biology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Neuroscience program
Cornell Weill - Neuroscience program
Columbia - Neurobiology and Behavior Division
Harvard DMS, BBS
Upenn Biomedical Graduate Studies, Neuroscience Program
Rockefeller University
NYU - Neuroscience and Physiology
Tufts Neuroscience
Brandeis - Neuroscience</p>
<p>I apologize if this is not the correct forum to discuss this. I received an email from UCLA ACCESS today saying my application has been received and that I can monitor my status with a new user name and password listed in the email. Upon checking that site, there appeared to be a supplemental application, that had largely the same information as the application submitted for the 12/1 deadline. I called the program and they said this is the ACCESS supplemental portion as opposed to the general UCLA grad school application and that I should populate it. This requires my recommenders submitting new letters and everything. Does anyone have any idea about this and why we’re required to provide the same information? The email was not explicit in saying that any action was required on my part, and had I not called the program, I would have no indication that there was a supplemental application at all! Please help!</p>
<p>When I applied to the ACCESS program, the only extra thing they required was to list affinity programs and faculty members. @SOD7247, what other supplemental information are you talking about?</p>
<p>Hey guys, I’m nervous too, and I’m afraid that I won’t get any interviews. I only applied to 7 schools, like the top 7 programs, so I’m not sure what’s going to happen. But I guess we have no choice but to wait.</p>
<p>Major/minor: Biochemistry with a minor in Chemistry
Undergrad: Large Public Research University
GPA: 4.00/4.00
GRE: V 165 (95%), Q 164 (90%), W 4.5 (73%)
GRE Biochem: taken, no scores available yet</p>
<p>Honors: Phi Beta Kappa (do they care?)</p>
<p>Research: Molecular Genetics lab for more than a year and a half in college, and about one year of research in a molecular neurobiology lab in high school. In my current lab, we are preparing to submit our results for publication (I will be 2nd or 3rd author on the paper, depending on how you look at it, I am immediately after the two co-first authors), and I am first author (out of two) on a textbook chapter that is in press.</p>
<p>Recommendations: 1 very strong letter from my PI (does it matter that he’s fairly prominent in the field? He was just elected to the NAS), 1 very strong letter from my academic advisor/honors program coordinator, and 1 medium-to-strong letter from my cell biology professor who is also the chair of my department.</p>
<p>Schools- interests are molecular biology, genetics, and development
UC Berkeley
UC San Francisco TETRAD
Rockefeller
Columbia
Harvard BBS
MIT Biology
Biology@Princeton
UChicago
UPenn Biology
Hopkins CMDB
Yale BBS</p>
<p>I am very stressed out about this whole process. I know that I’m applying to all super competitive programs, but I was told that these are the types of programs to which I should be applying. What do you think about all of this? Thanks!</p>
<p>@BambooPanda: I’m pretty stressed about this as well; I’m applying to extremely competitive programs and I still can’t really gauge where I sit in terms of this year’s application class. I’m sure we’ll find out relatively soon, though!</p>
<p>@bassish101: It seems to me you’re going to get interview offers from a lot of the programs you applied to, good luck!</p>
<p>@erbbie3 I would never dream of applying to some of the schools here, and I still feel pretty unsure of what will happen. I guess this is part of the ride.</p>
<p>@bassish101 I think you might be good to go on a few of those schools haha. The lab I’m working at pumps out papers a lot, but the people I have worked with are just starting theirs. I wish I had a paper.</p>
<p>Quick question. How long does it take ETS to process and send out GRE scores electronically? It’s been a week, and one of my schools doesn’t have them yet. The other two I applied to do, however.</p>