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As far as I am concerned, they havent sent out any formal interview invites yet for domestic or international. Check out the biosciences google spreadsheet from r/gradadmissions, people are regularly updating the information.

Hey everyone, I want your thoughts on my PhD application for this cycle. Please let me know if you have any suggestions about my school list as I am open to any programs that fit my research interests! Degree: Cell Biology/Neuroscience (combined degree not double major) at Rutgers University (graduating May 2024) GPA: 3.482 My GPA is probably my weakest point, but I have a great upward trend over the last couple years (making dean's list for four semesters in a row now) and I had some very legitimate extenuating circumstances that got in the way of my academics early on. I go into detail about these experiences in my personal statement, just doesn't seem necessary to completely flesh out in this post. Research Experience: 2 full years (including 2 full time summers) in a neuroimmunology laboratory. I am completing a senior thesis in the lab currently. I have started training new undergraduates in molecular biological techniques. I am now also in charge of maintaining our mouse colonies. The project I am currently working on it focused on how flaviviruses impact fetal neuron development. I would love to explain more about it but this neither the time nor the place lol. Publications and Presentations: Five total publications. 2 are published and 3 are in prep. I joined an active, newer lab and I got super lucky to get to work on so many projects. I cannot understate how grateful I am for the opportunities and responsibilities my lab has given me. I am a second author on one of the papers that are in prep. I also gave a talk at a symposium and presented a poster. Additional Experiences: I conducted peer review for my university's undergraduate research journal for a year. I also gained research experience in a lab before COVID hit, but was only there for a couple months before the project and my position collapsed (due to COVID). I also worked on a summer research project in 2021 that was online and bioinformatics based. Letters of Recommendation: One from my PI (an incredible mentor btw), one from the Director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center (the RARC is a massively growing addiction research body), and potentially two from other neuroscience professors who I have had the pleasure of collaborating with while working in my current lab. I am still deciding which professor to ask in for the third letter, but one has already offered. The environment I was trained in has allowed me to collaborate with so many people and really helped me grow as a researcher, again I am very grateful for the people I learned from. Areas of Interest: I want to do research in psychiatric disease and how neurobiological development relates to neuropathologies. I am extremely interested in schizophrenia research along with other psychotic disorders. I have grown a massive liking for neuroimmunology as well and how that relates to neuronal development. I have been looking into schools where I may find a great foundation in these areas of research. Schools of Interest: UPenn (top choice), Johns Hopkins, WashU, University of Washington, UCSF (who would've guessed that? lol), UC Davis, Rutgers, Ohio State, UPitt, Duke, Boston University I would really appreciate your input on my competitiveness for these types of programs and whether they seem like good fits to my research interests. Most importantly, I would love recommendations about programs I may have missed while searching for schools with my specific interests. Thank you!

Hey everyone, I saw that there has not been a topic created yet for this year's Neuroscience PhD application cycle so I thought I would start a thread here now. Please feel free to share your qualifications and school list for feedback and admissions information. Also feel free to share any information that could help strengthen applications and just generally improve this stressful application process. Good luck to everyone during this cycle!