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Hi neuravinci, There's no way to really predict your chances at any school at this point. Your GPA seems decent, and you seem to have adequate research experience. Letters matter a lot, and along with research experience are the most important parts of your application. You haven't taken the GRE, so it's hard to tell if you'll make the GPA/GRE cutoff for any particular school. If you know that you want to go to grad school for neuroscience, the best thing to do would be to narrow your interest down to something specific in the field. For example, I'm interested in the molecular basis of learning and memory. It took me a few weeks, but reading literature and gauging my interest level helped me decide this. Just check out labs at universities that are working on what you want to work on, and apply to those schools. It's also good to keep in mind that applying to all "reach" schools will you not get you many acceptances. Hope this helps.

Hi everyone, I am currently a biology major at UCSD interested in applying to Neuroscience Phd programs. I currently have a 3.2 overall GPA and 3.0 major GPA, which is definitely on the low side. My GRE score is a 1360(770 M, 590 V). I have 2 years of research experience, but no publications: 1 year researching neural identity genes in Drosophila, and 1 year researching opiate dependence. My main areas of research interest would be cognitive neuroscience(dealing with the study of memory, emotions, or language) or computational neuroscience(using neural networks to model how the brain functions in behavior). I'm not sure which schools would have the best research advisors for these subfields, and which would be out of range for me. Could anyone suggest a list of schools/advisors for my specific interests?