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DesperadoBio

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  1. Thanks. It is just really hard because I spent every college summer in the United States to do research instead of flying home to spend time with my family. I am really tired.
  2. Yeah I kinda regret that now but I was having like the most volatile time when i applied because my research got scooped. I was also advised against applying to mor than 5 schools by my advisor in college. Also given my field is in plant bio there wasn't a lot of choices. I am currently thinking either quitting the field of life science becuase the application result shows that I am probably not good enough to stay in the field, or just quit plant biology and extend to other fields by finding a lab technician job,
  3. How many years did you do post-grad research? Did you do it in an industry setting or a university setting?
  4. Stanford, Rice, UCSD, and WashU. WashU just rejected me actually.
  5. I have only gotten one interview from my safe school among all five schools I applied to. I am assuming the rest of them will reject me because it is late January already. I have a question for people applied in previous cycles: if your application results suck, what choices did you make? Did you quit the field permanently, find a lab technician job and work for a few more years, or go to the only school (your safety school) and spend five years there?
  6. Guys, I applied to programs at Stanford, UCSD, WUSTL, Rice, and UMD with a concentration on plant biology. I am extremely disheartened that I didn't receive interview invitations from neither UCSD and WUSTL - I am more than 80% sure they have sent out interview invitations at this point. I know my grades are not great - it is just 3.5, and I struggle for it because my school is midwest private school ranking top 20 national wide with a lot of smart people doing premeds. And the plant research I've been working on for the past three years in the same lab just got scooped by someone else this summer so my chance for publicatio is zero. I am actually preparing for not receiving any PhD offers at all. If I don't receive any offers, I have two plans: 1. quitting the field completely and teach English in my home country instead. 2. See if any biotech companies or research institutions can adopt me so that I can have a second chance. I don't really know where my life is going.
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