Undergrad Institution: International school. Major(s): Biotechnology Minor(s): N/A GPA in Major: N/A Overall GPA: 86% Position in Class: 3rd of my class
Graduate Institution: Top 10 public US university Major(s): M.Sc. Animal Science (Doing mostly genetics & computational biology work) (Will finish In spring 2019) GPA in Major: Overall GPA: 3.9 Position in Class: I am not sure, but I am at the top surely. Type of Student: International female
GRE Scores (revised/old version): Q: 158
V: 162
W: don’t remember.
TOEFL
Total: 117
Research Experience: -1 year of research in cell models for in vitro fertilization for bachelor’s thesis
-Internship in viral vaccine production company producing and developing vaccines.
-1 year of working in a goverment food microbiology lab
-5 months of research in stem cell transcriptomics at the bioinformatics lab of a recognized institute
-2 years of research in transcriptomics/epigenomics using computational biology for master’s thesis
-1 publication as 2nd author, 2 publications under review as 2nd author, 2 submitted publications (one as middle author and one as 1st author).
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) -Received department scholarship
-Was invited to speak at huge international conference
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, SPS officer etc...) -Undergrad TA for biochemistry lab
-TA for a programming course
-Reviewer for journal of undergraduate research for my school
Applying to Where:
I’m not sure of my chances at any of these places or how competitive I might be for a PhD program, if any of you could indicate me that would be great!
If you all have any other suggestions of some places to apply that would be great as well.
University of Chicago- Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology
Boston University - Bioinformatics
Tri-Institutional - Computational Biology and Medicine
CMU-Pitt - Computational Biology
Columbia - Systems Biology
Cornell - Genetics, Genomics and development
Sanger Institute 4-year PhD program
EMBL-EBI PhD program