Xiaolin Showdown

Just curious, but did you apply to MS Bioinformatics at UIUC under the CS department? Also, would you mind sharing your profile a bit? I plan to apply next year so have been asking around

Congratulation to you all who have received offers and best of luck to the ones who are still waiting! I am not applying this cycle, but I plan to do so next year. Would you guys mind sharing your profiles, especially generally what research experience you have had? Thank you very much!

As an aspiring grad school applicant, it's common knowledge that research experience carries most of the weight of my package (and of course the LoRs). So what exactly do schools look for in students' experience? I most likely will apply to programs in organic chemistry in the future, yet research projects available at my school (a small college) aren't very much as interesting as larger Us (nothing as fancy as organometallics or enzyme-catalyzed reactions, for example). Would it hurt my chance to compete with kids from those schools who are more familiar with these cutting-edge areas? Thanks so much for your input