<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>Decided to bring this thread to life for all internationals applying to the US for Biomed/bioscience PhD programs.
Please post any interview invites along with your stats if you would like to.</p>
<p>Also your welcome to post any info valuable for interviews and travel to US.</p>
<p>Ahhh just another thing...please mention whether you are an international with/without US degree.</p>
<p>Unfortunately,I have no interviews as yet.</p>
<p>Good luck all</p>
<p>Thanks for starting this fallbiomed2011!</p>
<p>This will be extremely helpful for international applicants.</p>
<p>Seems you actually started the thread. In what country did you do your undergraduate in?</p>
<p>I think its a great idea for a future reference thread</p>
<p>hi sefago …I finished from India.</p>
<p>Hi all. I’m international and got invited to interview at Columbia’s Integrated Program 2 days ago.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>@jlin84: Did you do your undergrad in the U.S.?</p>
<p>I’ve applied to Columbia Genetics&Dev. and designated the Integrated Program as my second choice.</p>
<p>Applied to 8 schools, no word yet.</p>
<p>@gtugce: yup, i did my undergrad in the US, graduated in 2008</p>
<p>i applied to 10 schools, and columbia is the only one i heard back from so far.</p>
<p>what sort of a US visa - tourist or student visa should an international apply for incase he/she is invited for an interview and the invitee would like to travel to the US for the interview.Any thoughts guys?</p>
<p>Definitely not a student visa. For that type of visa, you would need an I-20 provided by the school in the US where you are studying full-time.
For interviews, a tourist visa will suffice. Though, I would not advise mentioning to the officers that you are traveling for PhD interviews.</p>
<p>what would it take for an international student to secure a place in biomed grad school?</p>
<p>1st class hons? strong LOR. Research exp?</p>
<p>I would have prob 2nd upper hons or if lucky 1st class.
3 LOR.
2yrs of research exp.</p>
<p>hi arcas
I would think having strong GRE scores(1500 and above) including your awa score of 90% and above and subject scores around 95% and significant lab experience that informs you about plunging into PhD studies for a career in research.
of course you would need to demonstrate good GPA in your UG studies with LORs from profs well known to you professionally and finally a decent SOP.</p>
<p>Well this is what I think, I cant be for sure since I am waiting on my own applications to be accepted. And the above scores I think should give you the chance to compete for the top 5-10 schools.
Good luck and start preparing early.Dont leave anything to chance.</p>
<p>Regarding visa: As I am from a country which participates in the visa waiver program, I just travelled as a tourist. I mentioned to the border control officer that I would be interviewing, and had neither problems to get into the US for the interview nor when I applied for my F1-visa. Sometimes honesty apparantly does pay off. :)</p>
<p>Hi, everyone. This thread is interesting. I love this idea!</p>
<p>I am an international student from China. Waiting is boring and painful.</p>
<p>My stats:
GPA: 3.8 (ranking 1st out of 58)
GRE: V660, Q790, AW3.5
TOEFL ibt: 106
SUB(Biochemistry): 690(95%)
Research experience: 2 years, one review and another submitted (both are 1st author), some papers in preparation, a summer intern project in UCLA
RLs: 1 from Stanford, 2 from UCLA (I am not sure whehther these RLs will be decent and very positive), 2 from home university </p>
<p>No news about interview yet.
Good luck, everyone!</p>
<p>hi oulileo,
your stats look solid.What programs are you applying to?</p>
<p>great…we all together gather here in the same boat… and hope new year could bring some good news to all of us. so far, my mood is like
early November - enthusiastic
mid November - excited
late November - relieved
early December - anxious
mid December - agitated
late December - frustrated</p>
<p>I’m guessing…in the next few weeks, I’ll be going crazy …</p>
<p>ha ha genome…I’ve already gone crazy…checking/refreshing my inbox at unearthly hours and at a rate you cant even imagine.</p>
<p>Hi,fallbiomed2011</p>
<p>I am interested in stem cell.</p>
<p>Programs:
Stanford-Biosciences
JHU-CMM
Duke-Development Biology
UPENN-Biology
Weil Cornell-BCMB
BCM-Human Genetics
UMN
PSU-CMB
Utah-Genetics
Case Western Reserve University</p>
<p>Hi oulileo,
I have one program common with your list…JHU CMM.Clearly you will be ahead of me on the JHU list.</p>
<p>Hi fallbiomed2011,</p>
<p>Not exactly, can you share your profile with us?</p>
<p>I talked with a professor from JHU, and he told me that half of applicants have 2 years’ experience as technicians. Also，he said that my chance is somewhat bleak.</p>
<p>I have posted my profile in the Official biosciences thread…page25</p>