<p>I'm a second year looking at research positions on the SRP website. After doing my CV and Cover Letter how many positions should I apply to in order to at least get into one?</p>
<p>Like 10. I kid you not.</p>
<p><em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>it depends on what kinda research you're aiming for.</p>
<p>which ones did u apply for on the srp website?</p>
<p>i emailed like 3 random professors i found in the directory..only 1 responded nad her lab was full.
as for the srp website..i applied for 1 the day it was posted and somehow the PI emailed me and told me it was already filled.
so i applied for another one at the srp site went for an interview last week, luckily, i have a lot of experience working in that field, so i got accepted =)</p>
<p>but to tell you the truth i think the positions listed on the SRP site are harder to get just because sooo many people apply for them since they are widely known. you will have less competition if u just email random professors and hope they respond!</p>
<p>^what she said is true. less competition, and often times more rewarding (i.e. clinical research)</p>
<p>Depends entirely on the major. For a popular major, you probably won't find any research opportunity. For a less popular major, the profs practically beg students to do research.</p>
<p>Ah. This seems very difficult. I guess worse come to worse I can always do the biomedical research minor and get guaranteed research.</p>
<p>Oh and the website says the SRP positions are limited to 10 each. But you can work as a volunteer and without the units. I could care less about the units. I just want SOME research experience to get started. Would noting that in my cover letter make any difference? (i.e. saying I wont be a part of SRP but just would like to volunteer in the lab doing the same work just without the credit)</p>
<p>^not just on the MAJOR, but on the department you're trying to work for and the type of research you're doing (is it looking at guppies move around all day, or working with actual patients in the operating room?)</p>
<p>Do you have a 3.50+ GPA? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>So whats the chance of getting research with a SUB 3.0 gpa, incoming 2nd year.</p>
<p>I'm boned. </p>
<p>Hopefully I at least make it to some sort of interview so I can seduce the professor.</p>
<p>im doing research now, just started this summer. but i'm very VERY interested in another research opportunity that is <em>sort of</em> related... has anyone done 2 research projects at once?</p>
<p>an option is to get the first one out of the way after spring and start this other one next summer...</p>
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<p>Wow, that is pretty desperate.</p>
<p>GPA matters for certain things, as a second year (last year), 3.1 GPA just walked into a lab with a pretty legit P.I., they took about 3-4 of us that quarter and most of us stayed on the entire year. It just depends on the lab, what they want you doing and if it's a good fit both ways. Be persistent, and find other ways (UCLA faculty research interests). Be prepared to do busywork, but also make sure you push to do less and less of that and more actual research.</p>
<p>Gpa: 3.761</p>
<p>So ... what kind of busy work do "researchers" do?</p>
<p>Never had to do any, but you know... washing... glassware, regular old data analysis BS.</p>