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I am definitely aware of the importance of diversity in lab experience, which is why this lab will be more of a 'safe choice' rather than my top choice (which I'm still trying to figure out). I am also no longer working in that lab - it was a summer internship. I'm currently at a lab at my own university where I'll be doing thesis work. Thanks for the input! The prof I worked with is a great advisor and I didn't think it would be an issue with him, but it's good to know that this isn't a strange thing in general.

Cornell has a great scholarship/fellowship database with an 'international students' category: http://www.gradschoo...index.php?p=132 Most of the funding for international students seems to be field-specific or country-specific. The ones I've been looking at are for the sciences, so I don't have specific recommendations for you, but it's worth going through that database to see what applies.

I have a related question on taking the GRE early - mine won't be quite as early (spring of junior year) but it will still be some time between when the scores are sent out and when I actually submit my applications. Will schools hang on to a GRE score sent in Feb/Mar even though the rest of the application doesn't get in till Nov/Dec?

I will be applying to grad schools for ecology for fall 2012 and am trying to get some kind of a plan together before thesis work and classes consume all my time. I worked on a couple of research projects with a professor (not at my undergrad university) this summer. It turned out great - we may get a publication or two out of this work in the next year. This professor will definitely be able to write me a strong LOR when I apply to grad schools next year. At the same time, I am thinking of applying to his lab as a 'safe' choice - safe in that I know I can work well in his lab, with his grad students, and in the department, and I think he knows that too (he offered the same position to me for next summer, but I'm going to be tied up with thesis work at my own university). So I'd have a high chance of getting in and I know it would be a good fit, though I would also like to diversify my research experiences by looking elsewhere. Would it be really weird/awkward to apply to his lab while also asking him to write me LORs to other programs?