SciencePerson101

Please dont act like you are amazing. You didnt "compete" with anyone you were at bottom of the barrel. I hope you can survive the first quarter.

lab at NASA

Wow how about trying to be a good PhD student instead of wasting time? You are not good at singing anyway.

I never feel guilty. The world should feel guilty for being in my grace.

I sleep with all my roommates, male and female so it doesn't matter.

Of course a person like you who got rejected and waitlisted from 3rd tier schools are more knowledgable than me. LMAO

As if I care what you think I got into harvard, yale, stanford .etc. so save it.

I was a straight A student until last quarter with all the interviews I ended up with 2 B's. It is whatever. Just don't fail.

research at a different place. You need at least 2 letters from professors you worked with to be competitive. Chances are you will not get a paper from the summer. Of course you can work with your PI the whole year next year and get something out of it.

Less "these things inspire me to do science..." and more "I actively did research, join groups, .etc." They don't care if you are inspired by nature when you are a kid or Craig Venter rekindle your love for science. What did you actually do?

Funny how I got accepted to the schools you are rejected from.

You sound like a great candidate! Definitely apply to the top schools.

stop the BS. "Science is greed" Don't make me laugh. What hypocrites you people are saying humanities = science & engineering when you can't survive without your iPhone and other technologies. I can survive without knowing about some useless passages from Hamlet and what techniques Matisse used for his paintings. You can downvote all you want but deep down inside you know you are not good at anything else so you have to justify for your useless job/career.

Humanities people are useless. You don't contribute anything to the world except your stupid opinions. LMAO art history? what is that useful for? exactly

Good luck asking him for a letter of rec.

It doesn't.... If you apply to top 10 schools there are ton of people with 4.0 gpa and perfect gre and multiple research experiences with publications and countless awards and they still get rejected. Look for research fit rather than name plz and you will be happier. (and yes i got into harvard and yale this cycle)

If it is not the big 3: Harvard, Yale, Princeton(stretching it a lot here because their grad programs are inferior to H and Y) then don't even think about Ivy prestige because I never knew Brown, Cornell, UPenn, Columbia are Ivy until some months ago.

with their stipend do you really need a fellowship?

Harvard BBS I heard is too big and impersonal. Also Harvard's faculty compete with each other for tenure spot and the stress trickles down to grad students. Honestly UCB is the same way... Both places are full of cutthroat self-starters if you enjoy that type of environment go for it! UCSF BMS/Tetrad/iPQB and Yale BBS programs have nicer faculty and graduate students who care more about you from my experience. You can trust me on the Harvard's assessment because my PI got his PhD from Harvard and in his words "It was good for my career but I wasn't happy there." He did the PhD in the smaller Harvard MCO program which was suppose to be more personal so you know how worse it is for BBS.

wtf is this. If you are not accepted it is because you are not as good as other people (even though you think your stats are "excellent"). Why do you have to spin your rejection around and say the adcom makes mistakes? This is not communist Russia. Only the best students should be admitted to graduate programs.

So by your logic I should feel blessed with a third rated surgeon who failed anatomy but got into medical school because it is a "game". Also obviously I want a loser "psychologist" who "game" into grad school and somehow become licensed and I am suppose to trust that person with my mental health. Right.....

if you get rejected by that many places maybe you are not a very good student and would make a terrible psychologist. Please consider another career.

Iike a year ago in 2012.....

PhD students are more important. Get over it please.

You got into top 5 Ivy and you complain? Maybe aim for lower schools next year.....