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Hi Qinqini, Are you still in the program. I got in and am trying to make friends as a first year.

Hey, I'm wondering whether you got off the waitlist. I'm interested in that program as well.

PLEASE HELP I'll skip the long backstory. Basically, I have reason to believe 500 plus references worth of work was scooped by my advisor's colleague because he emailed the document to her. And then he sent me an email from her where she says she read some of it and it has "merits" and the part she claims to have read up to conveniently came out in PNAS last year. She even wanted to get it into a journal. But I think my advisor has been sabotaging me all this time because he all but refused (essentially refused) the forwarding of a relationship between her and I. This was like years of work on my end so I'm speechless. What should I do? Crazy? thoughts: Send that email thread (which has my manuscript) to PNAS? To her supervisor? (But she's a PI so...) Preprint it backdating the doc and adding the email thread to the preprint? These are all crazy, right? Or no?

How ill-advised is it to address career inconsistencies in your CV? I deviated from research to a few other fields and while the deviations would be viewed as impressive, I feel they with the CV paint me as less experienced in science. Should I just address this in the personal statement and leave any explanation out of the CV? Would appreciate your advice!!

Thank you! I think I'm going to apply to see if any think I'm a decent fit with the plan to find a research tech position should I be across-the-board rejected.

I tried being creative, especially with the intro (had a riddle), in a previous app cycle but a prof I know who is/was on the grad committee of an Ivy indicated that a simpler approach would be better so maybe that will help guide your writing.

Also a potential “diversity” add as I’m a minority gender-wise, race-wise, etc And forgot to note where I’m hoping to apply Penn Univ of Sciences in Philadelphia Rutgers NYU Columbia Rockefeller (such a reach, not that the others aren’t)

Hi, After reading some posts, I may be too underqualified but maybe there’s some hope one of you can offer or like a previous poster said, you can save me hundreds in app fees by saying my chances are small. undergrad inst: Princeton major: molecular biology gpa: 3.2, major gpa would have to be lower postbacc inst: Univ of Penn program for prehealth students that I studied in for a year; gpa: 3.48 (five courses total) research experience: 2 academic years one at undergrad with biochm prof, who would be a strong lor writer, working on neurodegeneration and neuroprotection re PD the other at UPenn in a compbio lab where I assisted with transcriptome analysis and neuroimaging study (but I don’t think I was in the lab every single day) pubs: none, was planning to pub with undergrad lor writer but never did; they are technically researched and written and I could preprint as one of the two contains a novel etiopathogenesis/neuroprotection model undergrad “pubs” are mandatory junior paper and thesis, which were received well, the first more than the second (e.g. well regarded neuroscience prof was super excited about it) inexplicable gap: in the two years since being at Penn, started and stopped different paths: helping deliver different services to the developmentally disabled through the state, taught K-12 (language arts), started (but didn’t stop) a profitable company focused on student mentorship (not a plug) sop: the only version I have (from a previous app cycle) has super specific detail about what I want to pursue in neuro gre: 320 but more and more programs don’t seem to require it so don’t know if I should send (when I mentioned the breakdown to a prof on the grad committee of an Ivy neuro or science program he said it’s fine, i.e. didn’t seem to think it was worth it to take it again but this was before inception of test optional) lors: undergrad prof and Penn lab prof indicated they would be strong writers, have to find a third not sure what else to share except that I feel like I should finagle my way into a lab asap so that at least on my app I can say something like I know there’s a gap but by time the Spring rolls around I should have another half academic year of lab experience (ridiculous/desperate/what do you think??