Wulfz

I am a senior at the College of Charleston and have recently changed my prospective career by deciding to go to graduate school rather than medical school. I have been developing a great interest in neuroscience over the course of the past year. Originally, I thought I could pursue this interests by doing research while in medical school and go on to be a neurosurgeon, but now I am looking at graduate schools, which leaves me to wonder if my resume matches well with graduate programs. Rather than doing research, I have been shadowing doctors, working part-time as a personal trainer and teaching Supplemental Instruction sessions for my college in both Biology and Chemistry (and have recently been promoted to Peer Mentor) for the last several years. (Therefore, roughly working about 20 hours/week while in school and about 40-60 hours/week during the summer and winter breaks). I have a great GPA of about 3.9 and plenty of work experience, and participated and moved into leadership positions in several extracurricular actives, but my lack of research really makes me question whether or not I even have a chance at getting into some of the more top tier programs. I decided to take a year off before medical school to obtain an MBA, but now that I am not going to medical school, I am planning on doing biochemical research this summer and potentially all through next year. I took the GRE so I could get into the MBA program, but didn't take it that seriously (since the MBA program already knew they wanted me and is not highly selective) and got a 159 verbal and 158 quantitative. I'm hoping if I study some I can get the quant up to around 164-166 (there were several things, such as some of the vocab. used in the quant section and the geometry stuff, that I hadn't seen since I was in 7th grade... so I feel like a refresher in those things should jump my score up a bit). Aside from getting my GRE up a little, do you guys have any other advice on getting into a Harvard/MIT/Yale type of graduate program? Or does my current plan sound like it should play out well? Thanks in advance!