<p>I have just finished applying to grad school for the fall of 2013 and wanted to know if any of you had ideas on my chances. I am a microbiology major with a minor in anthropology. My cum. GPA is 3.04 (due to one rough semester related to health/depression issues/life issues) and my GRE scores were 151 on quant, 162 on verbal, and 4 on AW. I have some research experience and will be author on the paper(s) once the research is completed (hopefully sometime next summer). I know its not the best application by far but I kept hoping that I had a chance until I looked at posts here. Now I'm wondering if I was delusional. Thoughts and opinions are appreciated.</p>
<p>Hard to say anything without more info about your school, recs, type of experience, and most of all, target schools.</p>
<p>And even with all that information at hand, chancing for graduate school is incredibly murky.</p>
<p>There are a lot of factors to consider in someone’s application. If you’re looking into going into a Biology-related field, I would recommend looking at schools based on research fit, get strong letters of Rec, and write an awesome personal statement.</p>
<p>My research experience comes from my research capstone which then lead to me being hired by that lab. One of my letters of rec comes from the PI of that lab and, from what I hear, he writes excellent letters of rec. My other two are professors who I have ongoing relationships with. I chose my schools based upon the research they had: Colorado State University, CU Denver, University of Utah, University of Louisiana-Shreveport, University of Hawaii Manoa, and University of Rochester. My specific research interests are: prions, autoimmunity, and host-pathogen interactions. I am applying both to masters and PhD programs depending on whether or not the school had a masters program. I got good feedback on my personal statement from one of my letters of rec people and from my adviser. As far as my transcript goes, its obvious that that one semester was an anomaly. I even made the deans list last semester. I also addressed why I did badly in my personal statement.</p>
<p>Louisiana State University, not University of Louisiana, sorry. Too many University of…</p>
<p>No one can really chance you for schools, even if given other information. But I will say that you should still apply. I can’t say whether you have a good or bad chance at the above schools, as a lot of places consider the whole application. The worst that happens is you don’t get in anywhere, get some feedback on your application, take that advice, and try again next year.</p>
<p>For more advice on school matching, you can ask on Grad Cafe (Google it!). There you can ask current grad students in your major and look up results from past admission cycles.</p>