Undergrad Institution: University of Toronto
Major: Biotechnology/Biology Minor: Chemistry
GPA in major: n/a
GPA in minor: n/a
Overall GPA: 3.86
Position in Class: n/a
Type of Student: Male, International
Currently doing M.A in Biotechnology at Columbia University - Sep 2014 - Aug 2015 (expected)
GRE Scores
Q: 161 (80%)
V: 161 (87%)
A: 4.5 (80%)
Research Experience:
4 months independent research in a biochemistry lab, devised the optimum refolding protocol for a bacterial protein
6 months research experience in a Ecology and Evolutionary biology lab, mostly statistical analysis and review.
Plan on doing summer research at Columbia on Cancer Signalling (Summer 2015)
Relevant Work experience:
Teaching Calculus to fresh as part of the Peer Facilitator Program at UofT (Sep 2011 - April 2012)
Publications: none
Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
1) UofT Scholars Program Entrance Scholarship
2) UofT Scholars Program In-course Scholarship
3) Dean’s list
4) Graduated from University of Toronto with High Distinction
Applied to:
Yale BBS
Weill Cornell Cell and Developmental Biology
Cornell Ithaca- BCMB (molecular and cell biology)
Vanderbilt IGP
Princeton@Biology
Penn CMB
NYU Sackler
Icahn @ Mount Sinai (Cancer Biology)
UT Houston MD Anderson (Biomedical Sciences)
Brown Pathobiology Going to apply to-
Harvard, MIT, Columbia Additional info- Applying everywhere for PhD in Cancer Biology
LOR- Should be very strong, but all from UofT since Columbia Professors only know me a month, so getting one from them would be useless.
Any thoughts? Am I aiming too high? I considered NYU Sackler and Vanderbilt as my safety, but is that too arrogant of me? What are my chances? Any kind of help would be really appreciated
