<p>Ishuku, congrats on finishing! If you find a way to stop checking the sites and apps let me know ;)</p>
<p>Hi all!
I am so mad I didn’t find this forum before! </p>
<p>Anywayz, I know this is really late but here are my stats…please let me know of my chances,etc since I still have time to apply to Unis with deadlines late Jan,etc</p>
<p>Research Interests: Cancer Biology
Undergrad: National University of Singapore (International Applicant-Indian citizen)
GPA: 3.87
GRE Scores: Q-780, V-680, AWA-4.5
Research Exp: 2 years, 4 different projects:
- Related to Neuronal cell growth/death, Alzheimer’s Disease: had to mainly perform gene expression profiling using microarray
- Summer project in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (received a National Fellowship from India) on epigenetics in cancer using drosophila tissues
- 1 year research project on regulation cFLIP promoter activity by free radicals in cancer cells
- Current Final year project in same lab as previous: Studying effect of novel small molecules/cancer drugs on the PI3K pathway. </p>
<p>LoRs: From the 3 PI’s, 2 of them will be fine (from my current prof and the first project), 3rd one I hope is ok, didnt directly interact with that prof much, worked with post-doc mostly.</p>
<p>Publications: None (sniff!) …I might get one by end of my final year project since things seem to be going ok but nothing I can mention in apps :(</p>
<p>Problems: International applicant, no publications </p>
<p>Applied to:</p>
<p>UCSF (damn hard for internationals I know but these 2-3 ppl working on exactly what I want! so gave it a shot)
UPenn
Sloan-Kettering
NYU Sackler
UPitt
Wisconsin
Hopkins CMM</p>
<p>I know they are mostly very good unis and that being an international student with no pubs its gonna be damn hard…any suggestions for other unis that might be safer options? I had a couple in mind like Purdue or Utah…</p>
<p>Please give suggestions/comments! Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>Vanderbilt IGP has an application deadline of Jan 15. From what I can tell by the grad student population, they seem to be international friendly. Plus it’s a free application.</p>
<p>Ah thanks a lot! Will check it out…</p>
<p>Ahh, can tell some people took a little break like I did. I am all done with applications and surprisingly I am already hearing back from some of my fall back schools. I currently have interviews with University of South Carolina (Biomedical Sciences) and University of California Irvine (Cellular and Molecular Biosciences). </p>
<p>How is everyone else doing? </p>
<p>krishh008- You got a stellar resume. Awesome GRE and great GPA. I would suggest University of South Florida (great cancer program) app due Feb. 1st, Ohio State app due march 20th, and Vanderbilt was a good suggestions (they are very international friendly). These would be closer to safety schools, but may be worth checking out. Best of luck, let me know how things go.</p>
<p>ChewyJewy,
See the stickied thread for results. Congrats!</p>
<p>How do they usually send out invitations? I’m out of the country till late January and am concerned that I might miss their calls.</p>
<p>You’ll always get a hard invitation (i.e., e-mail or postal) if they miss you by telephone.</p>
<p>Research Interests: Plant pathology
Undergrad: top private. BS Biotechnology
GPA: 3.8
GRE Scores: Q-670, V-410, AWA-5.5
GRE subject Biology: 97% with 99% molecular and cell biology
Research Exp: 3 years in plant pathology 3 publications in process, 1 first author
LoRs: From 2 PIs and 1 prof. All should be pretty good
Teaching assistant for plant molecular bio, plant biotech, molecular bio, botany, tissue culture, microbiology, and genetic engineering.
Graduating a year early </p>
<p>Problems: super low GRE score, stomach flu during test :(</p>
<p>Applied to:
Cornell
U Wisconsin Madison
Ohio State
U Illinois Urbana
Iowa SU</p>
<p>Do I have any chance of admission with my low GRE, Especially cornell?</p>
<p>@hubertcumberdale</p>
<p>the GREs should not matter much since the rest of your application seems really strong.
i have roughly the same profile as you though no 1st author publication and have received interviews from some really top programs in the biomedical sciences. don’t worry. it will come rolling in. =) best of luck!</p>
<p>@hubertcumberdale</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldn’t worry about the GRE. You scored higher than I did on the quantitative section (640!!!) and I have two interviews from schools in the top 10 in my area. With your kind of GPA and research experience, you have NOTHING to worry about.</p>
<p>ChewyJewy, Thank you so much for the suggestions…I am checking out those schools and will keep them in mind. For now, I got an interview at Sloan-kettering…m hoping it goes ok!
Congrats for your interview calls!</p>