Adding mine!
Student Type: Domestic
Undergrad : R1 State Uni
Major: Biology, Math and Stat minor
GPA: 3.4
Test scores: N/a
Research: 2 years in high school/first-year undergrad for tissue engineering lab (1 third-author publication from this), 2 years in behavioral neuro lab, 1 REU at UPenn summer 2024 in Deep Learning/Bioinformatics (made a hard pivot to computational), continued working with Penn lab remotely, and am now being paid. 5-ish years total
Other Experience: Club Volleyball President
Letters of Recommendation: PI from neuro lab, PI from Ivy lab, Director of Grad Admissions/Professor in Bio department who was a close mentor
Schools I am applying to:
Princeton QCB (did their preview weekend and met the director of admissions)
Tri-I (Weill Cornell, MSK, Rockefeller) Comp Bio
UPenn GCB (current PI here + REU connection)
NYU Vilcek SOM
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Harvard AIM/DBMI
UC Berkeley Comp Bio
Yale Comp Bio
Boston University
Trying to leverage my connections to have some success here because the rest of the profile is unfortunately not as competitive as I would like. Good luck to everyone!
