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<p>Oh really? Wow. <em>shrug</em> If I were smarter, I probably should have done physiology and biophysics instead then. Or theoretical biology. Okay, you have me convinced.</p>
<p>I’ve read thegradcafe results before - but it’s sort of frustrating because you can’t see the stats of the applicant (why do they do this when they don’t even post their GPAs+GRE scores?)</p>
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<p>Wait though, do SOME bioscience programs have higher average GPAs than others? I’m especially interested in systems biology, biophysics, and computational biology. I have a few advanced math bio courses and a senior-level synthetic biology course (and a grad lvl neurobiology course that I got a 3.7 in). I have a math+physics+astro triple major and lots of statistics and programming experience. I don’t have more bio courses since I really do NOT want to go through my university’s intro biology sequence (I did self-study it though, and I self-study massive amounts of biology), and thus, I don’t have the pre-reqs for most of them. Most of my research is in the astro department but maybe they’re willing to take recommendations from people in other departments?</p>
<p>And do most of them require advanced GREs or not? Of the ones that <em>don’t</em> require advanced GREs, do they have higher average GPAs? I really only have time for the PGRE at this point.</p>
<p>It’s also possible that lack of analytical ability is one of the main bottlenecks to a lot of bioscience research (just as lack of programming ability is the main bottleneck to astronomy research).</p>
<p>Which bioscience fields are most willing to take someone with a pure math+physics major who doesn’t even have organic chemistry?</p>
<p>Still though, I’d really appreciate data on acceptance rates, since universities won’t reply to my emails if I ask them for that data.</p>
<p>Thanks. :)</p>