Undergrad Institution: UC Santa Barbara Major(s): Chemistry and Biochemistry Minor(s): GPA in Major: 3.8 Overall GPA: 3.8 Type of Student: Domestic, female, minority (LGBTQ+ and disabled)
GRE Scores: Q: 163 V: 161 W: 4.5 B: N/A
Research Experience: (At your school or elsewhere? What field? How much time? Any publications (Mth author out of N?) or conference talks etc...)
3 yrs Computational Chemistry Research Group (ongoing): Independent project with a notoriously "difficult" professor, 1st author pub in progress, 5+ poster presentations, 3+ associated fellowships/grants
Summer 2019 Neuroscience Research Group: Worked with a respected prof in Boston, 2+ poster presentations, 2+ poster presentations, 1 associated grant, potentially a 4th author pub someday LOL
0.5 yrs Scientific Programming work for Ecology Centre on campus
Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?)
Summer Research Programs 2018 (McNair @ UCSB), 2019 (Tufts)
Summer Research Programs 2019 (3 @ UCSB, declined due to other offer)
Summer Research Fellowship 2019 (UCSB)
GRE Scholarship & Course 2019 (McNair)
Travel Award to ABRCMS 2019
Research Internship Grant 2019 (UCSB)
Pre-App Graduate Visitation Programs (PSU, Purdue, RPI, GaTech)
Pertinent Activities or Jobs: (Such as tutor, TA, SPS officer etc...)
Board Member of UCSB ASBMB Chapter
4 yrs part-time exam proctor and course notetaker
2 yrs part-time graduate research storeroom assistant (shipping and distributing chemicals, glassware, etc.)
Developed high school programming for scientific outreach program
Mentoring students in STEM via 3+ orgs
Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:
Well-maintained personal website, GitHub, etc.
Special Bonus Points: (Such as connections, grad classes, famous recommenders, female or minority status etc...)
Minority in STEM, participated in lots of programs/mentoring positions that focused on diversity in STEM
Took way more physics classes than I needed
Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter:
Lots of programming experience, but no formal coursework
Results:
UCB Chemistry - Accepted January 17th, 2020
UCSF Chemical Biology - Rejected December 24th, 2020 (**My PI never submitted his LOR because he thought UCSF was ONLY A MED SCHOOL smh)
Scripps Chemical Biology - Interview December 20th, 2020
UW Seattle Medicinal Chemistry - Interview January 15th, 2020
Purdue Biomedical Engineering - Accepted January 15th, 2020
Penn State Bioengineering - Accepted January 15th, 2020
MIT Computational & Biomedical Sciences - Rejected January 24th, 2020
MIT Bioengineering - Rejected Febuary 1st, 2020
UCSD Biomedical Sciences - GHOSTED LMAO ?
I sent several emails to the programs which I haven't seen any signs of them in the the gradcafe result pages. All of them told me that they have not send any invitation yet!!
This year is somewhat slower than before due to the large size of the applicants pool. Even most of the programs have sent out all the invites, a few programs are still reviewing the application.
