[2016 Neuroscience Ph.D. Applicant Thread People Thing]

Haven't heard from any of the places I applied to. I think my plan B is to become a hippie and go to the Himalayas.

[2016 Neuroscience Ph.D. Applicant Thread People Thing]

10 hours ago, NeuroMetro said:

I hope my potential PIs feel that way about all the OTHER applications.

 

LOL !

[2016 Applicant Profiles and Admissions Results]

I have a question which has probably been asked before:

 

When college websites say they don't have GRE /GPA cutoffs, do they really mean that or do they pre-screen our applications anyway and weed out people (like me) with less than stellar stats?

 

[2016 Applicant Profiles and Admissions Results]

 

My turn to post this:

Undergrad Institution: Foreign (India)
Major: Medicine
GPA in Major: N/A (70%)
Overall GPA: N/A (70%)
Position in Class:  1st
Type of Student: International male

Master's Institution: Well recognised UK university
Major: Neuroscience
GPA in Major: ? 3.6
Overall GPA: ? 3.6 (Merit)
Position in Class:  No class ranks

GRE Scores (revised/old version):
Q:  160
V:   163
W:  4.5
B:


TOEFL Total: 119

Research Experience: 

7 months full time student volunteer in a zebrafish behaviour lab (UK)

1 year and ongoing full time research assistant in a drosophila lab (India)

(My lab hopping was due to visa issues and doesn't reflect badly on me (I think). I should have good LORs

(All the labs I worked in are recently established, so no publication yet. Should have a first author publication ready for submission in 6 months hopefully)

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: 

Gold Medal for Standing first in the University in my Undergrad

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 

Worked as a TA for ~2 years

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Unfortunately, no

Special Bonus Points: Unfortunately, no 

Applying to Where:

Rockefeller, Harvard PiN and MCO, Columbia, NYU, Yale BBS, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCLA, WashU, Duke, UMass Med, UMich PIBS, JHU

Not confident of my chances, so applying to a bunch of places. If I don't get in, will apply to places in Europe and see what happens !