<p>I hear all this talk about GRE's being less important and all, but whenever I check the websites, they usually have something stated in the lines of, " you need minimum blah blah percentile"... so is it really true that if you don't make that minimum, you're not considered?</p>
<p>in addition, has anyone here taken the biochem subject test? I'm looking through it, and a part of me just died. Can anyone post their stats up of their scores? </p>
<p>I'm planning on a phd in cancer/cell biology...</p>
<p>(This isn't particularly useful... sorry. :))</p>
<p>Hi to another biology PhD applicant! I'm also applying to cell biology programs. Where are you applying?</p>
<p>I'm taking the biology subject test. To be honest, it's because it looks easier to cram for, and the fewer stress-inducers I have in this process, the better, I think.</p>
<p>haha, good to see another bio student who's not pre-med. Right now, I'm a junior so I have another year until I start applying, so I was thinking about studying my GREs right now, just to avoid cramming.</p>
<p>I really want to stay in california (currently in berkeley), and I heard Stanford and USC had good cancer biology programs, so these two schools are on my tentative list... I've read somewhere in this forum that you're in MIT. Which schools are you applying to?</p>
<p>I'm quite tempted to take the biology subject test too, since they're accepted by all schools.</p>
<p>I read the scoretable for biochem, and it looks like a raw score of 110/180 lands you in around the 80+ percentile...</p>
<p>I'm excited about this because I just finalized my list yesterday -- I'm a senior, so all this application stuff has a lot of relevance for me right now.</p>
<p>(Alphabetically!) Berkeley (MCB), BU, Caltech, Harvard (DMS), Michigan (PIBS), Stanford (Biosciences), UCLA (Access), UCSF (Tetrad).</p>
<p>I'm not too sure about the best cancer bio programs -- I'm trying to optimize for a combination of neurobiology and cell biology, so my list is probably different from what a good cancer biology list would look like. </p>
<p>And, yup, I'm an MIT kid.</p>