Hi everyone, I'm an international student studying in Canada. I'm applying to Canada/US still as intl students. My interests are quite complex... so I'm applying for a mix of programs, see below. I'm not really considering any wet lab because I don't have much experience in bio experiments.
I hope I can get some feedback on my position, thanks in advance! Hope everyone can get into the schools they want!
Undergrad Institution: McGill University
Major(s): Bachelor of Arts and Science in Honors Cognitive Science, minor in Computer Science
Overall GPA: 3.85
Major GPA: 3.95 (depending on how I calculate because there is no official major GPA here at McGill)
Type of Student: International, Asian male
GRE Scores: N/A
Research Experience:
- During Undergrad -
- 5 months in a Multimedia research lab in China. Focused on video moment localization via natural language. Did mostly data processing and feature extraction.
- 6 months in a computational psychology lab simulating probability learning and reasoning in children, using the code provided by my PI with some modificatiion for data processing, but no major change.
- not sure if this count as a research experience but I carried out a project on prediction of recidivism. Had a poster in the project fair on campus.
Publications:
None so far
Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
None so far, expected to have a Cross disciplinary award upon graduation, and my Honors thesis(?)
Other Info:
Tutor for an intro to programming course (4 months)
Heavy background in COMP, with little back in bio
LoRs:
-1 from my current PI, already submitted. Not sure how well known he is but I really like him and he has been very supportive of me, Shout out to my PI!!!
-1 from former professor who doesn't know me too well but I took two courses with him and sent him a draft letter along with all my other qualifications. He will start late writing the letter.
-1 from former supervisor who was just promoted to associate prof, but pretty sure no one in neuro knows him... And he is from China.
Applying to Where:
Lottery: Stanford(Surya Ganguli, Fei Fei Li), MIT(Robert Yang, Joshua Tenenbaum, Ted Gibson), Princeton(ddl approaching but I haven't finished my SoP...),
Maybe have a chance (?): UC Berkeley(Psychology, Fei Xu/Steve Piantadosi), NYU(Xiao-Jing Wang, Wei Ji Ma, Biyu Jade He), Columbia, CMU PNC(really like this one because it doesn't have app fee lol)
Safety but would gladly go: McGill, U of T MScAc
Any feedback is appreciated!
