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So you have a little lower Q score on the GRE, you have an advanced degree, good GPAs and publications. The publications are really the big deals, you have established yourself and given yourself some solid credentials. So as long as your GRE score is in the reviewable range they will give your application a good look and this is where everything else you have done puts you over the top.

You can look them up on NIH Reporter or Research Crossroads and check out their funding situation. Make sure in the NIH Reporter to search all and not just active projects just to see how stable of funding they have had in the past.

No its not normal and I've seen it get both the grad student and the professor booted out of the institution before. As far as why professors flirt, some of them just like to toss their proverbial fishing lines out in the water and troll for some ass, some have a horrible relationship or marriage that they are currently in, and some just don't give a damn. Either way stay far far away from it.

Be honest. From my experience (grad student on AdComm) we want to know if you have competing offers so that if we want to take you in we don't dilly dally and screw around. Your honesty may just increase the chances of getting a quicker offer from us than someone with no admits. So fess up!

Just get a copy of a Kaplan text book, which will tell what types of questions (algebra, probability, etc) they ask and how to solve them as a quick refresher. But if you want to do science you need some math classes, at least up to the Calc I level. Best of luck. And once again seadouche its still not surprising to see you acting like a condescending asshat, I really couldn't expect more from you.

Yeah, the kid was into cocaine. As far as I know with graduate students, beer is the drug of choice. I know a few who dabble in pot. But rarely any that can do or even afford harder drugs.

Yeah we have had these kids before. One of them interrupted me to ask why I had not done something in my project yet in a real snarky way that they thought would have been easy. This came after many other snide comments and the kid texting while sitting in the front row of my seminar. I came down off the steps stood in front of them and told them the idea they had would take at least 6-8 months while I had only been working on my project for 3 months because they learned about the concept at their uni. And staring them in the eye, I suggested that maybe they no clue as to the reality is of timelines for projects in science. To top it all off and put the little braggart into their place I told him that science is like sports, its easy to mouth off sitting on the bench and to talk to me when he started playing. Needless to say this kid's acceptance was revoked. These pain in the necks are few and far between but don't screw with grad students who help out with recruitment activities. Its not our jobs, we aren't payed to do it, we do it out of goodwill for others that will walk out path and have little time for those candidates who grandstand and toot their own horns.

Wave it, you look like you have something to hide if you don't and most profs (writers and readers of LORs) look at you strange if don't waive the right.

Lily, it can't hurt to get a masters, it will probably only help too. And if your heart is set on it, then go for it kid. Your life will be filled with c*cknob naysayers like seadouche. Just ignore them. Best of luck.

Usually a group of professors (tenured or tenure-tracked only) and administrators (representative of the dean or the dean themself) and in some cases students.

Take a look at Pro-Test, its a UK-based organization that I belong to who is in the business of trying to bring awareness to the public about the usefulness of animal models in the development of our understanding and treatment of many diseases. The voice of animal rights activists are ones that tend to be heard because they are always shouting the loudest, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes with fallacies. As there are two sides to every story why not take a look at this site and see if anything strikes your fancy. GR

I'm part of a group of grad students that formed a co-ed paintball team and we play once a month or every other month in all day tournaments. However we come back with horrible bruises on the Monday after tournaments but its fun to get away from the lab, drink beer, and bullshit for a while.

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I wasn't accusing you of personal attacks, merely I was rather going on the offensive. MedMan wasn't saying that slee had those conditions but it was possible for them to possibly cause an effect on someone taking the test.

I gotta go with MedManiac on this one Seadouche, since you know he is presenting logical and coherent reasoning to not diagnose but present some possibilities that might be affecting slee. With these vehement responses that you put out are you really a potential grad student or a lobbyist for ETS? And by the way still waiting on the speechless thing.

Is it going to be a short communications or a full on research article. If its a short communication I think just let it slide since those aren't definitive and just serve as springboards for ideas. I might try to think of something to address the holes in your hypothesis but go ahead and put it out, rarely if ever is there a complete story. Someone can always disprove you or you can always go back and disprove yourself when you have more evidence. I read proceedings, like PNAS, but I always read them with a grain of salt. Just because you put something out for public consumption does not mean that we take your or anyone's analysis as dogma. Remember be a skeptic.

I think you just have to punch through the 1000 mark and that is satisfactory. LSU states that their average is 1000 and that is similar to what I have heard from other folks at different places. Good luck.