<p>soft bump...</p>
<p>How many different kinds of bumps are there?</p>
<p>Hi guys, </p>
<p>I am Serbian guy, applying to several us and canadian universities this autumn. Here are my stats:</p>
<p>GRE General: V-570, Q-660, Analytical - unknown so far, but I expected to be good.
GRE Subject test in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology - 90 %
GPA: 92 % ( I don't know how do you convert our grading system into american)
TOEFL i : 107
Fluent in French (Diplome d'etudes en langue Francais = 92%), English, and Serbian (native)
Research experience: very modest due to the political circumstances in my country and international isolation of our nation during and after fall of Slobodan Milosevic (two labs at the University of Belgrade, first lab 6 months, second lab 3 months)
and here's the list of universities I'm aplying to</p>
<p>Harvard: BBS
Stanford
University of Toronto
University of British Columbia
Universite de Montreal
UCLA</p>
<p>Every well-intentioned comment or suggestion is wellcome ! Please, be free to assess my chances.</p>
<p>Regards from Serbia !</p>
<p>Serbianguy</p>
<p>I am applying for graduate school for fall 2009 and thrilled to be joining the lot of you. As I have never applied for grad school before, I am very weary about my odds of admission. What do people think of this - </p>
<p>University of Wisconsin - Madison GPA 3.3
GRE General 780M/ 610V/ 4.5A
GRE Subject BCMB biochem 73 /cell 83/ molecular 98</p>
<p>3 years of undergrad research
2 years of industrial biotech research (after undergrad)
2 years of academic research (after undergrad)</p>
<p>1 publication in Rheumatism and Arthritis (2-3 level impact)
8 abstracts/poster sessions
1 international conference</p>
<p>I am hoping to apply to the following schools, all microbiology or micro/immunology depts</p>
<p>Duke
UNC
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Brown
Univ of Minnesota</p>
<p>Any feedback on odds of acceptance or general thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Are these schools appropriate given my qualifications? Should I include other schools, of lower or higher caliber?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance</p>
<p>belevitt, your GPA is a little low, but still I think you should be fine with good LOR and SOP, especially if your last 60 hours GPA/major GPA was higher. The publication is nice, but applying to grad school after working for years doing research is a big plus. Hopefully you are applying now because you love what you do and are committed to keep doing research. I would also highlight that fact in your SOP. You know what you are getting into and are prepared to do the work.</p>
<p>Personally, given my experience I would apply to at least 1-2 schools that are "higher" that you may think are out of your league. You may not get in, but if they are a good fit for you then you never know. The one school I thought was out of my league turned out to be the one that seemed most enthusiastic about me joining...they were also the school that best fit my interests though. In retrospect, I might have aimed even higher just to see what would have happened.</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 60% 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>Serbianguy, I'm no expert, but I think you have a good shot at USC and some of the Canadian schools, your GRE is a little on the low side for Stanford and Harvard, and I don't know how these schools will view your GPA given your foreign undergraduate degree. I think your research is on par with most applicants. Cheers.</p>
<p>Don't go for private sector, I made that mistake. When someone goes right from college into the biotech workforce, they are not trusted to have any professional judgement and are thus relegated to monotonous, tedious and repetitious grunt work. Go for academia, get a job as a lab tech (here they are called professional research assistants, or research specialists) the salary blows but the benefits and vacation time cannot be beat. Also, free tuition would allow you to take graduate coursework before you start grad school and that certainly has been a rewarding experience for me.</p>
<p>Thank you very much PhD-Bound? Are you already a graduate student, and if so where, if I may know ?
Come on people, I expect more similar comments !!!</p>
<p>I'm in the same boat as you, I'm an international student applying for PhD this year, I did my undergrad at the University of Toronto in Canada.</p>
<p>hi everyone :)</p>
<p>I'm an international Student, currently studying at a not so popular private liberal arts school.
Major- Biochemistry
GPA- cum 3.54 - major 3.52
GREs - yet to be taken ( planning to take them this Christmas)
research exp - one summer research and I am planning to do a semester of research as my off-campus study in this fall.</p>
<p>After looking at other posters' stats I can see that my experiences or the academic achievements are that impressive. But I am really hoping to get in to graduate school because I think I fell in love with research after my first summer internship.
I was hoping to apply for biomedical related PhD at grad school, Perhaps in Biochemistry and I would really appreciate your honest opinion about my likelihood of getting in to a graduate program in US or another country (I had Australia in mind too). Also if there's any, I am more than happy to hear some realistic choices of schools for me.<br>
thanks a lot for your time</p>
<p>Hey flybakto, I'm in the same boat as you. I think you have solid numbers and if your personal statement and letters are strong, you should receive offers for sure. Maybe top schools like Harvard are a little reach but look into some of the middle tier schools like Wisconsin, UNC, etc. Just apply broadly and I think you will be fine.</p>
<p>Flybakto, when are you applying for PhD programs? Because if you are looking at 2009 admissions, isn't a December GRE a little late? What am I missing here??</p>
<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I'am applying for the 2009-2010 admission to 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 3 personal research grants, 1 first-author publication in respected local journal, 1 article is in preparation for the international journal publication (most probably in Zoology, also 1-st author).</p>
<p>My raw school list is:
1. Stanford U. - Cancer Bio.
2. MIT - Biology
3. UC Berkeley - MCB
4. Rockfeller U.
5. Harvard U. - BBS Genetics
6. Penn
7. Duke
8. UCSF - TETRAD (If they are accepting internationals - currently I'am waiting for their response).</p>
<p>Penicillin, nice numbers and research. Enjoy signing acceptance letters!</p>
<p>tetrad usually accepts 1-2 internationals a year that don't come in with funding. If you come with funding then it's easier to get accepted.</p>
<p>man, everyone is looking at p53 these days. are you into systems bio penicillin?</p>
<p>Hi Penicillin, </p>
<p>I wonder how possibly you managed to finish your studies being only 19 years old ?</p>
<p>Penicillin,</p>
<p>If you are interested in Cancer Biology, I would also recommend Gerstner Sloan-Kettering and Weill Cornell due to their affiliations with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. There are tons of great cancer research going on over there.</p>
<p>hi everyone.. cud u please recommend univs which are actively involved in embryonic stem cell research.. and a bit abt their funding scenario and acceptance rates.. plz give schools across a good range.. thanks alot..</p>