<p>Thanks. I can't really re-take the Subject Test in time for the 2009 Fall deadlines. But all my profs, and the one I talked to at BU, think that 77th percentile is a great score, because grad students don't really have much time to study. But I was very worried about the GPA. So thanks. I was so worried.</p>
<p>I'am applying the 2008-2009 admission cycle PhD programs in Cancer Biology. My particular area of interest is role of p53 signaling network in the regulation of apoptosis and senescence. Being an international applicant it is rather hard to get into the top10 schools, but if you try sometimes you get what you need, right? ;)
My stats are:
BSc program in Biology with specialization (think, it is somehow analogous to the the term "major") in embryology and developmental biology in Russia's top3 school.
GPA: 5.0 out of 5.0.
GRE Subject biology: 920 (99%)
GRE General:TBD, think to take it in early sept.
TOEFL: also TBD</p>
<p>4 years of research experience, but the area of research was rather far from the molecular biology (I have done 2 research projects on development of asymmetries in vertebrates, basicly morphological aspect).
Have 2 personal research grants, 1 first-author publication in respected local journal, 1 article is in preparation for the international journal publication (also 1-st author).</p>
<p>My raw school list is:
1. Stanford U.
2. MIT
3. UC Berkeley
4. Cambridge U.
5. Harvard U.
6. Penn
7. Duke
8. Yale U.</p>
<p>Is it Ok that my research exp is quite irrelevant to the molbio program?</p>
<p>It aint good but it shouldn't hurt you too much. It really depends on the school.</p>
<p>I'd be very confident if I were you. Obviously, your credentials speak for themself. You're pretty much guaranteed acceptance into a few of these schools. I would be feeling fairly comfortable if I were you.</p>
<p>Hi everybody !</p>
<p>I'm applying this autumn to several US and Canadian universities, and here are my stats:</p>
<p>GRE General V-570, Q-660, Analytical - still waiting, but does not expect it to be less than 4.5
GRE Subject test in biochemistry/molecular/cell biology - 90%
GPA - 92% (I don't know how to convert our grading system to American, but over here everything less than 50% is fail (F), and the top is of course 100% which nobody ever achieves)
TOEFL ib - 107
Fluent in French as well (DELF diploma - 92%)
Research experience - very modest: 6 months in a molecular virology lab of University of Belgrade and 3 months of confocal microscopy training (due to the political circumstances in my country after fall of Slobodan Milosevic, I could not get some summer fellowship)</p>
<p>Finally, here's the list of universities where I will apply:</p>
<p>Harvard - BBS
Stanford
UCLA
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Universite de Montreal</p>
<p>Please bee free to assess my chances of getting admitted to these universities based on your experiences. I'm looking forward to your advices !</p>
<p>Kindest regards from Serbia, </p>
<p>D.</p>
<p>Hey Nissle, sorry to hear you are freaking out but a small detail you might not have picked up on, is that the gre subject test is a percentile not percent. 77 percentile does not equal a C+, it means that you did better than 3 of 4 other people that are motivated enough to take the same test. Also, the masters has got to help</p>
<p>I am closing this thread, and would direct posters instead to this year's biomedical sciences applicant thread [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/graduate-school/524763-biomedical-sciences-applicants-2009-a.html%5Dhere%5B/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/graduate-school/524763-biomedical-sciences-applicants-2009-a.html]here[/url</a>].</p>