<p>I'm a 4th year Biology major with a focus on neuroscience. I live in the US have decent grades, excellent lab experience and am second-author on a published paper (and appear on a few other papers as a minor contributor). I've always planned on going to Graduate School and assumed I would be doing it in the States as well. I was told a long time ago that the US was the best place for Graduate School because there was more funding. The notion (right or wrong) stuck.</p>
<p>Recently, however, I've begun to think about grad school overseas because a good friend of mine is looking into it. He's been told that the funding is about the same but the networking is drastically better and it puts you in a better position for a great post-doc and academic career later, as compared to going to one of the many grad schools in the US. Furthermore, my friend says you don't need to apply to the University itself so much as apply to the individual professors at the university which is where my extensive lab experience would really shine (and I can downplay my mediocre grades).</p>
<p>So, does anyone have some advice, tips or know the process of applying to European graduate schools? Is it a good idea? Are there alternate tests (instead of or in addition to the GRE) that I need to take?</p>