<p>A question for those of us who have already submitted applications…</p>
<p>I’m assuming I should be contacting each of the departments that I’ve applied to to make sure they’ve received all my stuff (transcripts, GRE scores, letters, etc.). If I submitted all my apps on Oct. 1st, when is it appropriate, and most effective, to make these contacts? On one hand, I think programs might not even start organizing things until their actual deadlines. On the other hand, part of the reason I submitted things early is so I can have time to deal with any mishaps before the deadlines.</p>
<p>A little thing, I know. But, I’m unsure all the same. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Approx how long does it take for the GRE test to arrive to schools?</p>
<p>My d-day is nov 1 and whatever score I get im gonna send it to schools immidiately and hopefully all arriving before the dec 1 deadline of most schools.</p>
<p>Hi, I’d be happy if someone could tell me about my chances on getting accepted for Bio Med PhD programs (microbiology, molecular biology).
Well, GRE: 570V, 670Q and 3.5 AWA (I will retake it, it’ll be next week…).
TOEFL: 114 (28 reading, 29 listening, 27 speaking and 30 writing)
Research experience: 2 years during college, plus three years (including the two year I was taking my master’s degree - on cellular and molecular biology)
Papers: one short communication (the revised version is currently under revision) and one more (though only submited by applications deadline)
GPA: undergraduate (I’m a veterinarian) - 76.8% & masters A (3.74)
I also have a two year long residency on large animal medicine and surgery (not that I think this will help me that much…).
Please, tell me if I have any chances on being accepted in one of the following:
Northwestern
Duke
Emory
UT Austin
UT Southwestern
Baylor College of Medicine
U of Maryland - Baltimore
Princeton and Weill Cornell (those it’s embarrassing telling you guys, since my GRE scores are far from being mediocre).
I appreciate your help, I have no clue how my international applicant status will count against me.</p>
<p>I along with a couple of post docs (as a team) from our lab won a science competition at MIT and were awarded a dinner opportunity with Prof. Horvitz ( a Nobel laureate) . do you think its worth mentioning in my resume or may be a sentence in SOP?</p>
<p>From the GRE website:
“Score reports for the computer-based General Test are released approximately 10-15 days after the test date to the test takers and to institutions of higher education granting the baccalaureate or higher degrees and approved graduate fellowship-granting sponsors designated by the test takers”</p>
<p>thats what I thought…yea it was awesome…it was recently…the dinner was supposed to be an hour but went on being a three hours long discussion about his and our research…he actually lost the track of time…:)</p>
<p>This wait for the GRE subject scores is killing me! I’m definitely paying the extra $12 to get my scores over the phone. There is no way I can wait for snail mail to get to me at the end of November. Plus I won’t even be near my mailbox as I’ll be home for Thanksgiving. Too much waiting! I think I did well, I finished the exam with a lot of time to spare, so I was able to go back and review some questions. I ended up not answering 5 of them, so we’ll see. I know the matching section is supposed to be the easiest, but I always tank those.</p>
<p>Anyway, hopefully I’ll get the apps in this week. I thought I was done, then one of my LOR writers offered some changes to my SOP, so I’ll be rewriting a paragraph on that.</p>
<p>So I was a little bored and looking around at NYU Sackler’s program. I really like their molecular oncology and immunology department. They seem to have some faculty doing some pretty cool stuff. Anyone know anything about their facilities? Admissions rigor? How they compare to other schools in NYC?</p>
<p>I don’t know, but I am applying to NYU Sackler (Neuroscience, second option Developmental Genetics). I know NYU’s Center for Neural Science (CNS) has a lot of well known faculty members, it seems (they don’t really match my research interests as much as the Sackler program) but I can’t comment on NYU as a whole. I know NYU CNS is just as competitive as the very top programs, so I would assume Sackler is also pretty competitive.</p>
<p>Thats pretty common, since the same 10 schools accept a hugely overlapping amount of people, so most of the larger umbrella programs accept >100, and usually 20-30 attend.</p>
<p>How are graduate programs from “research institutes” like Mayo / Sloan-Kettering/ Baylor /Scripps different from larger schools’ like NYU/ Harvard ?</p>
<p>So, I just came across this in the UPenn’s Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS) site and thought I’d post it here for others reference as this q about average GRE scores comes up a lot (from myself included):
2009 Admissions Season: Average: “GPA 3.7, Verbal 622, Quantitative 748, Writing 4.7”</p>
<p>Also, what do people know about UC Berkeley’s Molecular Biochemical Nutrition (MBN) program? I didn’t know that berkeley had anything other than Molec Cell Bio (MCB) and Integrated Bio (IB) in the biosciences – so I am reconsidering adding Berkeley to my list (MCB doesn’t fit my research interests, dislike the courses, etc.).</p>
<p>I have another question
Do you guys list all univesities you are applying on the application form? Is thre a correct way of doing this? Because I’m apllying to nine, and I don’t know how bad it is to list all nine Us.
Thanks!</p>