<p>How important is it to have co-authorships in journals published in Nature/Science, while applying for graduate schools?</p>
<p>Most students don't even have them after grad school, so I don't think it's a critical factor. You're not expected to have that. I don't think it even matters. I know people who got rejected from Stanford biosciences with co-authorships in Nature, and there are people who get in without any publication. Just like you don't need a Nobel Prize to get tenured, you don't need a Nature/Science co-authorship for grad school.</p>
<p>I thought not even lots of professors (at huge universities) get to publish in Nature/Science</p>
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Just like you don't need a Nobel Prize to get tenured, you don't need a Nature/Science co-authorship for grad school.
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<p>Perfect analogy, seriously. Getting published period in Nature/Science once in your life would be a pretty nice achievement, to get that in your undergrad research I would think would be extraordinarily rare.</p>
<p>As has been said many times before, you do not NEED any publications to get into grad school, but they are nice icing on the cake so to speak if you happen to have them.</p>
<p>"to get that in your undergrad research I would think would be extraordinarily rare."</p>
<p>does that "undergrad research" include research done after undergrad but before applyin to any grad schools?</p>
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to get that in your undergrad, postbac, masters, PhD and quite possibly even postdoc research I would think would be extraordinarily rare.
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<p>fixed.</p>
<p>The point is tenured professors still hope to one day get published in Nature or Science. It is 100% NOT expected of you to have that before applying to grad school in any situation.</p>