<p>aradian7: 89th percentile is more than fine. But LORs and research and GPA probably matter a lot more than your GRE scores.</p>
<p>Hey I thought I would just post my stats and the schools that I applied to:</p>
<p>Undergrad Institution: McGill University, Enrolled in Honors Program in Microbio & Immuno
Undergrad GPA: 3.96 Major, 3.95 Cumulative
LOR: 3 decorated scientists at McGill and associate research institutions, including chairman of the department
GRE General: 800Q 480V 4.0 AW
GRE Subject (Biochem): 650 (89%)
Research Experience: Summer Research (2008), and Honors Research Project (2008-2009 School Year).</p>
<p>Schools I applied to (Pharmacology-oriented programs)</p>
<p>-Stanford
-MIT
-Harvard
-Boston University
-Columbia
-Cornell
-Northwestern
-Yale
-Rockefeller</p>
<p>In retrospect, I was really worried about my GRE scores, but I feel that the rest of my application is very strong considering I'm applying directly from my undergrad. For those of you who didn't perform well on the GRE, don't dwell on it--from what you'll read on the forum and what you'll discover later, it's simply not that important.</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>hi, aradian7. Your grades are very good considering that you are from McGill. (Btw, I am from Univ. of Ottawa). The weak point would be that you have no publications. Another thing is that you will be treated as an international applicant, and those schools have very limited placement for foreign students. Taking these things into consideration, I think you will get into a few of those schools, probably Cornell, Columbia, Boston, and Northwestern.</p>
<p>Ahh, a fellow UofO student. I have a question, Bernard, how does our 10 scale GPA convert to American 4.0 scale? I have been relying on the OMSAS conversion scale, but not sure if that's a "reliable" conversion. Thanks!</p>
<p>randomname01, I used the conversion from AMCAS: <a href="http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf</a>.
Hope this helps. Are you applying to grad school this year? If yes, what program?</p>
<p>Have anyone of you found information about admissions statistics to UCSF BMS program?
Particularly number of admitted international students...
Do you know if tetrad would be better?</p>
<p>I heard it is almost impossible to get into UCSF Tetrad as an international, acceptance rate = 2%.</p>
<p>Nice, just like my undergrad... god dammit.</p>
<p>most good schools keep roughly 8% admission rate for international. but I think 2% is not like UCSD, where they admitted total of 3 people over past 5 years...</p>
<p>Hey guys, just received an interview invite from Baylor COM MCB, I was complete by mid-Nov.</p>
<p>Congrats PhD-Bound! thats awesome :)</p>
<p>Good job PhD Bound, I am impressed that it came so soon. Was it by email or phone or mail? We should start a thread so that we can track/discuss interview/acceptance notifications.</p>
<p>Anyone's recommenders report having problems with submitting the LOR online for Harvard BBS? My submitter was unable to access the formerly functional link, called the help people at Harvard but got no reply. She heard from another place that something went down computer-wise...</p>
<p>Hey Guys, </p>
<pre><code> Just got an interview (recruitment weekend) invite from Weill Cornell (Pharmacology) today
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<p>Thanks belevitt, the notification was via email.</p>
<p>Undergrad: Biochemistry at Brown University (in my senior year)</p>
<p>GRE
verbal 700, 97%
quantitative 790, 92%
writing 5.5, 90%</p>
<p>Overall GPA 4.0</p>
<p>4 years of research experience in life sciences
1 publication in unrelated field of photonics
Have secured a fellowship that fully funds my grad school education
Only caveat is that I'm an international student.</p>
<p>Have applied to Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Rockefeller to do research on DNA replication and/or mitosis. Interested in Harvard's Leder program and Stanford's Bio-X program.</p>
<p>Please give me your feedback on my chances. Thanks!</p>
<p>Where did you get fellowship if you are international?</p>
<p>From my home country. It comes with a catch, though - you need to work for the government after you graduate with a PhD. Not that I'm complaining, given the current economic conditions.</p>
<p>also how did you manage to finish your undergraduate in 2 years? one of your posts said you did not have your i-20 until 05/2006..;)</p>
<p>I'm currently a senior at Brown, and will get my degree in May 2009. So I'm finishing my degree in three years, not two. I accelerated by one year using credits from my British Advanced Levels examinations that I took in high school.</p>
<p>Well, congratulations on government that cares!
I think you are an automatic admit, pretty much you have perfect statistics, lots of research.
I am an international student at MIT. I cannot match your english (verbal and writing), and GPA, and have a little more publications, everything else is the same. I think it sets me lower than you, so at least we know who could get a single UCSF spot ;).</p>
<p>If only your recommendations will be good, and I am guessing they will be, you will get in everywhere. I have seen people with similar or worse stats getting in practically everywhere, and without fellowship which is a big deal for schools.</p>
<p>In my country Phd students get about 6000 dollars salary a year. And those who went away can forget about any help...</p>