ccyril95

Hi everyone, Really happy that I found this site, seems Im not alone on the application. I'm planning on applying for the PhD programs in epi and genetics for 2021 fall. Undergraduate: 3.3 GPA, MBBS from University outside U.S (yes, international student) MS in epi: 3.7 GPA, 1 publication, 2 projects with ongoing paper (respectively, radiation&cancer and genetic&CVD) LoR: 2 from thesis committee, 1 from RA supervisor. Generally I think the reference from RA supervisor and committee chair would be strong, not sure about the rest one since the connection is limited. I applied for U of Washington last year (from internal application)and got rejected. At that time I was not really prepared for the application because of the heavy load from course/thesis/RA project (got me half month working at Japan). I've noticed that most applicants get admitted would have at least some full time research/working experience on public health field, which used to be what I propose to do this year. But under such circumstance, a lot of research institute I've been favor of seem to freeze their hiring and remaining opportunity tends to be extremely tough to apply. So I decided to have a trial on PhD application again this year. Primarily I would like to continue my research on the genetic&CVD field among underrepresented population as AA/Asian. Besides epi program, I'm also looking for genetic/biomedical programs. I've been contacting with several senior PhD students about programs and schools and started to reach out for POI this week, hope I will get some updates next one week or two. But really frustrated since I'm not competitive enough for most programs, after checking on previous admitted students. Targeted programs/schools: U of Washington (Public health genetics, Epidemiology), Vanderbilt (Epidemiology, Dr. Wei Zheng), UCLA, Umich, Emory, Dartmouth(Quantitative Biomedical). Sorry about the negative feelings within this reply! Hope everyone would get their favorable result from this year's application!