sillymonkey

Thank you for your response. My problem is that it is difficult at my school to get research experience because my professors are not conducting research. It

Ok here is my situation. I am graduating from a small school in Nevada with a degree in biology. At the recommendation of some of my professors I have been seriously considering going to graduate school. I have a good GPA, around 3.7, and getting good letters of recommendation will not be a problem. The problem is that my school is not a research university and my lab experience is limited at best. I was hoping to intern this summer to get more experience but was not able to do so. I guess my question is can I get into a decent graduate school without authoring any published research? I have done experiments involving ELISA and things like that but I have no real world research experience. Can I compete against people who are first and second author of published research? I could wait another year to apply to graduate school so I could intern somewhere first but I