Do I still have any chances on graduate school?

[pirulila]

I'm from Puerto Rico, so to begin with I'm not sure if I'm consider an international student or not, it is a US territory so we do have US citizenship, but English is not the first language. I study at Puerto Rico's most important university, but it is also popular for all its strikes, I actually lost one semester because of a strike that went on for about 5-6 months. I'm a physics mayor, with a minor in foreign languages (Idk why I did that lol) I'm core physics courses my GPA is about 3.4-3.5, but my general GPA is a little bit higher than 3.0, I took my GRE today and I totally freaked out and left half a math section blank, I did terribly, and in the verbal reasoning I just suck so I'm definitely taking it again in 4 weeks, but I know for a fact that my verbal reasoning is not going above 50%. I have support for recomendation letter from the best professor of my university, and I have decent reasearch experience in nanotechnoly app to medicine. I'm very interested in Biophysics or as a secondary choice, Bioengineering but I don't know what my chances are (if any) or if I should settle with another program. 

[Usmivka]

That sounds like a long shot for either of those types of programs. But a strong research background, statement of purpose, and letters of recommendation can offset low test scores. Generally speaking GPA and GRE are more like thresholds--get beyond a certain level and you'll be OK, below and your application may be chucked without ever being looked at. Where that cutoff lies depends on the program.

Edited September 29, 2013 by Usmivka