Undergrad Institution: Public Ivy (Research I)
Major(s): Quantitative Biology (BS), Mathematics (BA)
Minor(s): Computer Science
Overall GPA: 3.59
Position in Class: Top 15%
Type of Student: Domestic, Asian male
GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q: 170 (99%)
V: 160 (83%)
W: 5.5 (96%)
Research Experience: 1 summer experience in non-profit mouse lab, 1 summer experience at NIH/NCBI, 1.5 years in BMME lab (doing systems bio work), working computational side in RNA lab currently. No pubs, but 1 poster presentation
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's List (5/7 semesters), University Distinguished Scholar, Thomas J Watson Scholarship (IBM), Honors Program
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: No TA positions because worked as a Resident Assistant and currently a Community Manager for the last 3 years to pay for my housing.
Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Lots of experience working in diversity organizations on campus, but because I'm Asian, the ill-fated "over-represented minority" in science fields it probably doesn't mean much, especially for the UC schools I'm applying to.
Special Bonus Points: Two recommenders have graduated from or worked at a couple of the institutions I'm applying for.
Applying to Where: Probably reaching for most of these, but mostly interested in computational/systems biology, but I definitely eventually want to make a jump to biomedical/health informatics
NYU Sackler Institute - Biomedical Informatics
Cornell - Graduate Field in Computational Biology
UCSF iPQB - Bioinformatics
Harvard GSAS - Systems Biology
Yale BBS - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
UCSD - Bioinformatics
UW Seattle - Biomedical and Health Informatics
UCLA - Bioinformatics
Stanford Biosciences - Chemical and Systems Bio
Michigan PIBS - Bioinformatics
Columbia Center for Computational and Biology and Bioinformatics
UPenn BGS - Genomics and Computational Biology