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    Portland, or
  • Application Season
    2013 Fall
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    Biology, EEB

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  1. Hmm. Well, I haven't graduated yet. I still have one more term, but since it's fall term I do have the rest of the year (potentially) that I could use to retake some classes and pull my gpa up. The only problem then is that I will have already sent in my transcripts with the low gpa. How would I show them that my graduating gpa meets the minimum? Is there a way to do this or would I have to wait and reapply for the 2015 year?
  2. Hello Eigen! Thank you so much for your response! What do you mean by university level approval stage? The way I understand how it works (read: the way I made up in my head) is that there is a general university application comittee that does preliminary scans and throws out applications like mine. Then the apps that have met the minimum requiremements are sent to the departments for the departmental comittee to read the letters and statements and make the comparisons. Is that not the way it works? Are you saying I wont be automatically tossed out for not meeting a minimum requirement? Also, what if I have an advisor that wants to take me? Will that make any difference? I'm already speaking to potential advisors in hopes that they'll get a good feel for who I am and my research goals/intentions before I apply.
  3. Should I even bother? Seriously, this is freaking me out. I'm graduating after next term (fall 2013) and I just calculated my last 90 units of coursework and I have a 2.95! I did something really stupid and took all my chemistry classes during these years. Turns out I'm TERRIBLE at chem and this really brought down my gpa. My cumulative is 3.14, major is 3.45. I have 2 years of research experience (my own personal project for which I was flown to an annual conference to present and will soon be submitting for publication). I also have interships/volunteer experience and a stellar letter of reccomendation from my advisor of my research. I have 4 interviews lined up with potential grad shcool advisors, one of which is at UW (my top choice) and I've had a good word put in for me by both my advisor and her close colleague whom I met at the conference I attended. I'm really worried, though, that all of these things won't even be looked at and my app will be tossed out during the initial screening screening for gpa. What should I do? I haven't taken the gre's yet, so I can't speak of my score, but I'm studying my buns off and will be taking them in the next couple months. Any advice? Thanks!
  4. I will be taking them soon, but I haven't started studying for the general test yet, and the bio subject test is given in April. (I had major surgery back in March which has taken a few months to recover from and I was having enough trouble getting through my classes with good grades, let alone studying for the GRE's on top of everything, which is why I haven't taken them yet). I really don't think I can study for the general and do well on it within a few weeks, right? Pitangus how did you go about finding work in your field? I do have a little over a year of working on my own independent research (under the guidance of a mammalogy professor at my current school), and I will be presenting my research/findings at a few biological conferences and possibly submitting it for publication. Do you think something like that will help my chances of getting into CUNY?
  5. Hi everyone! I'm going to be graduating this summer (2013) with my bs in organismal biology, and I really have my heart set on attending the EEB program at the CUNY Graduate Center. The only problem is, the deadline for the 2013-2014 year is on Jan 1st (today is Nov 11th). I haven't taken my GRE's yet, so I'm going to miss the deadline and will have to wait all the way until the 2014 year to attend (if I'm accepted). I REAAAALLY do NOT want to wait an entire year to get into grad school. The thought of having to find a job and waste an entire year seriously bums me out. I was thinking about applying to one of the other CUNY schools' master's bio programs for the a couple terms in 2013 and applying those credits toward the Graduate Center program. Has anyone ever done anything like that? Would this be frowned upon at all? Also, if anybody is in any of these programs and could give me some insight as far as what it takes to get into these programs, I would much appreciate it. Also, if anybody wouldn't mind sharing what their out-of-state tuition and financial aid totals out to I would really appreciate that too! Thank you!
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