kbthemadsci

Thank you for your reply TakeruK. I certainly am not aiming to slander my undergraduate institution in the slightest. My idea was to address the lack of research opportunities at my school and in my rural area as something I overcame through internships. I guess I'm worried how an admissions committee might view this idea.

So, I just recently got my bachelors in biology from a small state school in Kentucky. Our biology program is respectable (at least to those who know it in the area) but I didn't have access to a lot of research opportunities. In the end I managed to do a summer internship through AMGEN at UCSD (10 weeks) and another through UMass Med (also 10 weeks) plus a small project at my home institution. This leads me to my worries and woes. Is this a competitive amount of experience for a biomedical Ph.D. program? It seems many applicants have several years of experience often in one single lab. If this is a problem. Is it something I could address in my SOP by claiming lack of access rather than effort? Thanks for any thoughts anyone may have - KB