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  1. Has anyone heard back from Dartmouth MCB, USC PIBBS and Tufts CMDB? I've seen some of them said they were arranged for interview on the survey. Anybody got any feedbacks?
  2. //neuropanic// I hadn't expected that. I thought I revised it and put more private than public schools. Thanks anyway. I'll consider it. //virus guy// Well, I never said I don't like immunology, just that I was not as much attracted to it as I was at the beginning. After six months in the lab, I was a bit worried about my undergraduate gpa(couldn't keep up good work due to load of chores in the lab). Also, a graduate student who was in charge of teaching me - or advise me - about research and experiment became heavily occupied on getting valuable experimental data for journal publication that as a result, I was left alone doing nothing except some chores such as cleaning mouse cages and making agarose gel. In addition, I was not in part of any project or assignment. I guess this is one of my excuse, but at that time, I was heavily exhausted and frustrated. Anyway, Thank you for suggestion. Just wondering, do you mean biomedical science or biological science program at Drexel?
  3. //Latte Macchiato// Thank you for your advice. It made me feel better //Mocha// Thank you for so eagerly and honestly replying to my question Well, for answering questions you've asked, I have graduated private UG outside of US, nationally well known in my country(I have my doubts that it will be familiar in US) and no I do not have experience in any US institute. As I have stated earlier, my interest is mainly in virology(host-viral interaction), especially related to HSV(I am just curious about mechanism of it and how it has so greatly adapted as a parasite, and its almost ubiquitous presence among human). However, although I agree that it might be good to have specific area of interest, it could be somewhat broad in range at this stage. I went to immunology lab at first because the only one professor studying virus was in her sabbatical year and I thought it would be helpful to gain knowledge and experience in lab work elsewhere, since I had no idea what was going around in research lab. The reason I came out of the lab was my interest did not seem to fit in immunology as much as I expected and the very reason that I still am interested in studying virus. Also, I made up my mind to try out for studying abroad, to US - a little after coming out of the lab. And yes, lack of time to do any quality research, that is what bothers me the most. I say safety school, but I know myself that there are no 'safety' schools in graduate level, only that chances of admission can be somewhat higher and the outcome cannot be determined. I have done some web searching and found one of the professors in UIUC was doing research related to my interest. I plan to apply for it and several other graduate schools. Following are the lists of graduate schools I intend to apply, though it might change over time. Baylor college of medicine, Brown, Northwestern, Indiana Bloomington, Dartmouth college, Rice, U of Florida, U of Utah, Purdue - West Lafayette, U of Maryland, WUSTL and Tufts. I appreciate any kind of comments. Thanks.
  4. Hi, I'm an international student graduated this February and planning to apply for graduate program this fall. My interest is in host-pathogen interaction, mainly on virus. I guess programs such as immunology, virology, pathobiology and some programs in microbiology can fit into my favor. My status is as follows: overall GPA: 3.5/4.0 (major GPA might be a little higher) GRE: 157/162/3.0 (recently taken test score was 156/167/??, have only one chance left for taking GRE test) TOEFL: 105 (30/27/22/26) Research experience: 6 months in immunology lab (undergraduate school) I know I'm not a strong candidate, but despite other things, the fact that concerns me most is that I did not go through M.S and have only 6 months of research experience. To extend my research experience period, I'm starting a new career at national cancer institute in July. I hope this might be of help since it will extend my career up to a year - though I would not have any publications. My questions are, given this situation, which graduate school will it be a safety choice? and which graduate school will it be a little tough but have chances? I was trying to make some choices myself and could not figure out how low or how high I should make application. Really need some help. Thanks.
  5. //TakeruK/ /shinigamiasuka/ Thank you both for valuable information. I guess I have to try out for more private schools than public schools.
  6. I'm an international student and recently consulted one of the professors about which graduate school will I be able to apply with present status(gpa, gre, toelf etc.). I have e-mailed to graduate schools(ranked about 30~50) to get the information about the average scores of successful applicants and confirmed that my status is just around average(disregard of sop etc.). However, the professor said that the average scores I received are related to mainly on domestic applicants and scores of international applicants can be somewhat higher in gre(except in writing), gpa. I was depressed when he said that I wouldn't be able to receive admission offer from "University of xxx" level of school. Is the admission standard different from domestic to international applicants?
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