Undergrad Institution: Large private university - notorious for grade deflation
Major(s): BA - Neuroscience Minor(s): GPA in Major: 3.0 Overall GPA: 2.65 Position in Class: N/A Type of Student: Domestic male GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 156 - 64% V: 159 - 81% W: 4.5 - 80% B: Research Experience:
2 years (undergrad) in neuroimaging lab at an ivy league medical school
1.5 years in neuroimaging lab (post-grad) - managing the lab and overseeing all projects
9 publications (8 co-authors, 1 first author in a high impact journal)
11 scientific abstracts presented at international conferences
Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
Deans List - Final semester (hahaha i guess i really pulled it up at the end)
Top Poster finalist, co-author - Society of Biological Psychiatry 2013
Top Poster finalist, first-author - Society of Biological Psychiatry 2014
Applying to Where:
Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, UCSF, Princeton, NYU, Columbia, Brown, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Mount Sinai, Rockefeller, UPenn, UCSD
Yeah, so i have a remarkably abysmal GPA and as I look at the list I feel like i should have applied to less selective programs. I wrote about it in my statement of purpose trying to explain some of the shame away. My main concern is that the admissions committee will triage my application before looking at my CV. Have not heard back from anywhere yet =/.
Anyways, best of luck to everyone here!