Sinji

Really excited I found this forum :). Undergrad Institution: Top 15 University in TexasMajor(s): BiologyMinor(s):GPA in Major: 3.1Overall GPA: 3.15Position in Class: AverageType of Student: Hispanic MaleGRE Scores (revised/old version):Q: 160V: 160W: 5Research Experience: Four years of research experience, two as a computational biologist. 4 publications as first author (2 under submission).Awards/Honors/Recognitions: NonePertinent Activities or Jobs: Computational Biologist for 2 years.Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: I have extensive grant writing experience as a grant writer for a computer science non-profit organization. I've written grants that have successfully accumulated over 500k towards our program development.Special Bonus Points: My current PI is well known in his field. I have reached out to a lot of faculty at interested schools and they have all responded very well offering rotations. One very famous PI I e-mailed went as far as to CC the program director.Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: Probably doesn't matter for the actual application, but i'm actually fairly good at interviews and have a lot of presentation experience because my current PI is constantly having me present research with his grad students and asking me to submit to conferences.Applying to Where: MIT - Computational Biology - Genomics (This is one of my three reach schools) University of Washington - Genome Sciences - Genomics (This is one of my three reach schools) University of Michigan Ann Arbor - Bioinformatics - Genomics (This is one of my three reach schools) UT Southwestern - Cancer Biology with a Computational Biology sub-specialization - Genomics Case Western - Computational Biology - Genomics Northwestern - Computational Biology - Genomics (This is the school where the big name PI CC'd the program director) Georgia Tech - Computational Biology - Genomics I'm interested in adding three more schools to my list. Right now i'm researching UCSF, and UCSD for professors who's research interests align well with mine, but any other suggestions are welcome!