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  1. The good news is that there is probably no program that will trash your application immediatly with these stats. The bad news is that your stats alone don't give you an answer where you want to go, and neither won't they get you into a halfway decent grad school. Find out what you want to do. You did immunology research, could you imagine staying in immunology? Do you know a paper/research group that fascinates you, or where you think they to solid work? This is probably a good starting point. Ask your famous prof. If he is willing to write you a LoR, he will probably also have time to recommend you some places he likes or collaborates with, giving your application an extra boost.
  2. I think the main problem for US applicants is that most EU position require a MSc degree. Additionally, while there are some US-style graduate schools, in many places the guy who gets the funding money has all the power in selecting his applicants, making the process somewhat more arbitrary. But the diversity-advantage should be there as well, although somewhat diluted since there are usually many "international" applicants from other European countries.
  3. Have you tried to retrieve your scores online? At least I could see my scores on https://mygre.ets.org/greweb/login/login.jsp , and my letters did not arrive so far.
  4. This probably varies from school to school, but I guess most places will see a degree from an US college as sufficient proof that your English is good enough.
  5. I definitely know this feeling. Especially because my target field is very small, about everybody knows each other, I was always scared to death that if I'd write something incredibly stupid, I would be stuck. Two things I did were to just let the letter rest over night or over lunch and afterwards read it again, to get some distance. Additionally, I gave my draft to a friend to read and she told me it were just fine, so I managed to press on this ugly send button... And I wouldn't worry about time. I am European, so all my emails arrive by night to a professor in the US.
  6. Hi everybody, I recently started looking for a PhD position in America, and thus contacted a couple of professors I'd really like to work with. In one case I got a very quick, positive reply. What startled me, however was that the professor I contacted signed the email by only his first name. As I am not too familiar with American politeness rules and obviously at this stage do not want to offend anybody at all, does that mean I am now allowed to call him by his first name (e.g. Dear John, ...), or should I better stick with "Dear Dr / Prof Smith"? (And which of these two would you prefer in case you didn't know the person?) I'm asking because of in the part of Europe where I come from academia is pretty hierarchical, I.e. typically you are only allowed to call people by their first name when you know them reasonably well... Thanks for your answers.
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