acwneuro

Thank you everyone for all the advice. I am meeting with my advisors again soon. I almost feel like it will be just as hard to get the lab tech job as it is to get into a phd program.

I am in the process of applying to neuroscience phD programs and my professor suggested that I work as a lab tech for 1-2 years to get more lab experience. I am worried that these jobs are hard to find. I went to a small liberal arts college that does not have a grad school. I am afraid that the larger universities hire the students who went there as undergrads. I want to get additional experience in a neuroscience lab not just general lab tech duties. I checked out NIH health website and their program sounds good (research pre-phD) but I worry it is really competitive. Does anyone out there have any suggestions about this? Anyone taken this same route before applying to grad school? Anyone know anything about NIH programs?