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  1. Hi guys, I am currently in the final year of my undergraduate degree (BSc) and considering applying for grad school in the US but I don't really know if it is worth even attempting the process based on my current credentials and was looking to see if any of you guys had some opinions or if any other international students that didn't study their undergrad in the US could give some advice? This is my fourth year studying Immunology specifically (we don't have general Biology majors) at the #1 ranked university in my country (Australia) - our undergrad degree is a little different to the US in that in our final year we do 25% coursework 75% research project with a thesis, fully integrated into a lab that will take us on to do a PhD if we like as long as we win a scholarship at the end of the year. I haven't done the GRE yet but would probably be aiming to take it in 2015 if I didn't continue studying in Aus and kind of placed all my bets on study in the US (ie commence 1.5 years after I graduate as our year finishes in November and that's when I'll graduate). So, currently have a 4.0 GPA at my home institution and did a semester at Penn in my Junior year and also got a 4.0 GPA there although I doubt it's worth much being only a semester! Have done a semester of part-time paid research at an institute separate from my university in a cancer research oriented lab for which I will definitely have 1-2 letters of recommendation but no publications. Then I have this year in an Immunology lab at my home institution (best in Immunology in the Asia Pacific region) for which I would also receive at least 3? letters of recommendation at the end of the year. I don't anticipate having any publications by the time I apply based on the research I've done. Was wondering what my chances would be, based off this info alone and assuming a high GRE, of applying to Immuno/Biology grad programs at a handful of schools such as Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Stanford, Chicago, Penn...and if you don't feel I can aim that high feel free to say so but suggest what kinds of schools would be better to look into? The whole process of applying for a grad program isn't something we typically do in Aus so I'm a bit lost and don't know if we're encouraged to do the kinds of things the average undergrad American student looking to get into a top program would do during our undergrad education.... Sorry for the wall of text!
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