<p>Hello ,
I'm a 3rd year student doing my Msc in Biological
Sciences from BITS Pilani (India) which is one of the top 10 colleges
in India.I'm interested in doing a PhD after I get my Msc degree(
which would be in 2 years from now) and I've already given my GRE(
general) and have scored 1550( 750V + 800Q) in it.Also my CGPA is
8/10.Solely, on the basis of these 2 scores I wanted to know what are
my chances of getting selected for the Harvard's Immunology Program ?</p>
<p>Admission to the Harvard immunology PhD program (and most other top American PhD programs) is not heavily numbers-based, and the quality of your undergraduate and master's research experience and your letters of recommendation will be more important than your GRE and GPA. </p>
<p>Your GRE and GPA are sufficient to make you competitive for further review, but there's no way to tell whether you will be admitted based solely on those numbers.</p>
<p>Well as far as research goes-
I'll be doing 2 Study Oriented Projects-1 of which I've already completed (A study of how specific mutations in proto-oncogenes and p53 genes cause cancer including the stem cell hypothesis .)
1 Lab based project (still pending)
I've done a 50-days training at Orchid Biomedicals -where I studied the principle on which modern-day diagnostic procedures are based and carried out experiments to supplement my study
Then I would be doing a month of training in a reputed University here the next summer
and finally I would have a 6 month training period in a good univ/company</p>
<p>Is this much research experience enough or do i need to do more?</p>
<p>And as far as LORs are concerned I'm my department's favorite student so that wouldn't be a problem at all.</p>
<p>Also, as of now I don't have any conf/papers to my name and that is something I cant guarantee in near future-it may or may not happen.</p>
<p>But moreover, I would need scholarship to pursue my PhD and I don't think that Universities like stanford, harvard etc would be very enthusiastic about this.</p>
<p>Stanford and Harvard fully fund all biology PhD students, including internationals.</p>
<p>But competition for international spots is very fierce at these schools -- since the schools have to fund international students themselves (as opposed to US students, who are funded by the US government), there are very limited numbers of available spots for international students.</p>
<p>so on the basis of my resume could you possibly suggest the schools i should be applying to?that would be really helpful you know</p>
<p>I'm a domestic student myself, so I don't know much about the relative competitiveness of international admissions at various schools.</p>