<p>Hey, I was wondering if any of you could give me an idea of my chances of admission to a Neuroscience Ph.D. program within the top ten schools, as well as Princeton: Best</a> Neuroscience and Neurobiology Programs | Top Science Schools | US News Best Graduate Schools</p>
<p>Major: Biological Sciences, Psychobiology program from University of Alabama in Huntsville
UG GPA: 3.42
GRE Scores: V: 730, Q: 620, AW: 4.0 (I plan to improve these in the summer)
Interests: Neuroplasticity, neuroregeneration, long-term potentiation...generally the neural mechanisms of learning</p>
<p>Other: I'm currently taking upper-level neuroscience classes at Princeton, in which I plan to maintain a 4.0 GPA. It's possible that I'll learn to design/conduct fMRI and TMS experiments within my Cognitive Neuroscience course. I've had three years of research experience at my UG institution (two in Lifelong Learning as an RA and Lab Manager, and one in Memory & Cognition with much less responsibility) with six conference research posters, two of which I'm second author. I've had shadowing experience at Spain Rehabilitation Center at UAB in traumatic brain injury, an unpaid internship in pediatric neuropsychological assessment with a former UAB professor, and I've worked on the PAARTNERS study (the largest genetic study on schizophrenia to date) at the UAB Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, though that position primarily involved data reduction. In addition, I was interviewed for a research specialist position at Princeton with one of my current course professors, who seems to view me favorably.</p>