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I am sorry, I don't have any idea whether you are strong enough for UC Berkeley or not. I can say I think your application is really strong, but it does depende on how you convince the school in your SoP and how your recommenders sell you as an applicant. And of course whether your research interests are genuinely alligned wih theirs. Hope you do get into your dream school. Cheering for you!

I know the feels! This is the second time I am applying as well! Worked a lot harder to improve my CV, but I am constantly worried about my grades. Let's see how it goes this time!! Hopw we will be able to cope with anxiety until then!

I am currently still sending applications, but more nervous for the already applied universities than the yet to apply ones. This whole process is extremely stressful... Universities I am applying to: UCSD (neuroscience), UCBerkeley (neuroscience), UC Riverside (neuroscience), Ohio State (neuroscience), Harvard (neuroscience) and Stanford (neuroscience). Wish me good luck!

Oh gosh, so hard... Thank you for the advice though

Yeay! Hope we both get in

I was about to give you some advice when I saw this all happened a year ago... What happened then, did you apply?

Hi guys, I have a similar story to tell. During my last year in college I applied for a Phd in the US (completely unprepared) and got rejected. After that I was extremely pissed off with academia (thought I didn't deserve to be rejected, etcs) and kind of stoped caring for a semester. My grades went from a solid 8,0/10 to a 2,2/10. Then I got myself together, started a master's degree and worked hard enough to get a great GPA at graduate school, a 3.6 ish. And also have a few publications, one first author, to try to hide this fact. This year I am applying again to graduate school in the US, and I have no idea on how to explain my mental breakdown (figuratively speaking here) and horrible semester. What should I do?

Hi guys, anyone here appling for Ohio state university? I am aplying for the Neuroscience program at OSU. And extremelly anxious about everything.