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  1. I am also interested in public health. But I am an international student, and I find that it is more difficult for international students to apply to the schools,and apply for some sort of finicial aid. My GRE is 800Q, 620V, 4.0AW. I don`t if it is competitive. My university here in my country is not a famous one, and my research experience is not good enough, so I am also thinking of the same question: Master or PhD?
  2. Most of the schools you choose are also well-known in my country. BTW, does Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica teach in English?
  3. In addition, it is also very inconvenient. I have also to send my transcripts to some agencies before sending to WES, as what WES requires.
  4. Hi I am an international student, and some graduate schools I am interested in requires me to send transcripts to WES(World Education Services) to be evaluated. And how many schools do you know that such evaluations are required?
  5. You are an American in Beijing? I am a Chinese student, but not in Beijing. As a Chinese student, it is more difficult to apply to American schools, because the application to Chinese ones is totally different and we are lack of experience of the American way of applying to schools. What`s more, it is not easy to write a perfect SOP in English which is not our native tongue. So I think that webiste of Berkeley's Diversity Outreach Office is helpful.
  6. Your post is really helpful, although i do not learn sociology. I am an international student, learning medicine now and hoping to further my education in America. As an international student, I know less about how the addmission commitee and professors of certain programs think or how they will evalutate my personal statement and CV.
  7. Hello, I am an international student who is interested in some public health programs. It seems that a lot of students like you and me are confused sometimes when trying to find a certain program or track which suits the needs most. And it is hard to tell if one really loves something very much unless he/she really begins to do it. to have a strong social mission and practicum/internships is important, because the public health, medicine, and other fields that are closely related to human health require, to some extent, practice. About Ivy league, if you really want to be there, why not give it a try.If you do not, try some other schools.
  8. I know "the road less traveled", and I think it is true that I should make my own decision now, regardless of what other people around me think.. The reasons why not many students in my university want to study abroad are:1.many of them are not good at English at all; 2. a large portion of students are from nearby cities,counties, villages in this province, where people are lack of the awareness of the globalization and the importance of gaining experience in other countries/cultures. the admission committee puts more emphasis on the applicant's full picture, particularly the research and the GRE scores? So here is the problem for me: I don`t think my research experience is competitive, because we student who are trying to gain a bachelor of medicine mostly focus on the clinical side of medicine instead of the research in labs. Even though I am better than many of my classmates in terms of research experience, it is still less competitive when I have to compete with applicants all around the world. I think some sort of interdisciplinary biomedical programs may be better for me, because it emphasize less in a particular field of research at the first year and that`s just what I need----to gain more experience through lab rotations and find more about what I love most. About the ranking here in China: As far as I know, there are at least 140 medical medical schools(I think there must be more), and mine ranks about 30(it varies from 23 to 37 in different years). And only some departments/disciplines(not many) ranks top 10 in China. I will definitely choose UMAB. And I have sent E-mails to UMAB and got repies. I am encouraged to apply to their programs which I am interested in.
  9. UMAB is on my list. And I will check George Washington University later. As I said, I worry that it will not be a plus that the university I am studying in now here in China is not a very good or famous one. What do you think of that? My university`s ranking is only about 25 to 30 among Chinese medical schools. And there are not many students in my university who are willing to study abroad, compared with students in some other top universities/medical schools in China.
  10. I am also considering of applying to a few between 100 and 200.
  11. The experiment which I did for about half a year in the lab was under the guidance of a professor who runs the lab. I was the the leader of a student group (only 4 students in my group). However, we didn`t have any articles related to the experiment published. And in the other two labs I went to, I didn`t do much things: Just helped take some brain samples from anmial models. In the research with the publich health professor, I am also the group leader, and 4 other students are with me. I made the whole questionnaire, from the beginning to the end, and the professor helped modified it. A student in my group helped a lot in distributing the questionnaire and then got them back. And I also did a meta-analysis during vacation with a good friend,and have one article published in a Chinese journal, but it can not be searched in PubMed or other international databases. Do you think this article(only title, abstract, keywords of it are in both English and Chinese) will be helpfu if I sent it to the admissions committees or professors who I want to contact ? By the way, I am now an intern in hospital, so I don`t think I will have a lot of time to do things in lab or some sort of research, but I will try to go to some labs after work if possible. I hope those research experience will be helpful.
  12. Thank you, John. Of course I will use the spell-check for writing samples and statement of purppose.I also want to have them proofread by some native speakers, but I don` t know any Americans or other native speakers. I am thinking of top 50 to 100 universities in American universities, which I will have more chances to get an offer. And to try a few better universities(just a few) won`t do anything harmful. What do you think?
  13. I am a Chinese medical student in the final stages of obtaining my degree as a Bachelor of Medicine. I am interested in Phd programs in biomedical sciences and public health in USA. In my school, we haven`t initatite any kind of evaluations like GPA. Now our academic scores are still based on a 100-scale. And my avearge score is about 85. I only have three articles(2 are reviews, one is a meta-analysis) pubished in Chinese Journals. I am lack of research experience, because the degree I will obatin does not require a lot of skills in lab or any kind of research field. So far, I only did one experiment in a lab in my school for about half a year, and mostly doing experiments after class(not full-time in lab), and went to another two lab for a few days (did not do much work in those two). I am now doing a research with a publich health professor, and just got back the questionaires, but didn`t put the data into computer for further analysis. I got sort of awards or schoolarship every year. And I will probably get a sort of award( a province-level) next term for writing a report on a field research in some rural areas(it is a summer program for undergraduates). I was a volunteer in the hospital which is affilaited to my university when they admitted some wounded in 2008 after the eathquake, a nature disaster happened in China, which you probabaly know. By the way, my university (ranking about 25 to 30 in all chinese medical schools) is not a famous or very good one in China. I doubt whether it will have a negative impacts on my application. Although I've read the websites of many universities and the program descriptions, as well as the rankings on USNEWS and so on, what I know about US grad schools and their reputation can be limited. So I thought it would be more helpful if I could hear some of your opinions. could you please help me and tell me which university in the USA will be a better choice for me? Thank you
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