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Thank you for your help!!! Just got the financial information from Austin, they are actually gonna give me a GRA at 24k plus an extra 1k (or a new laptop) for the first semester, so it seems like the money wouldn't be so much of an issue with Austin either. My postdoc recommended picking Austin because (she is from there and) she knows that the advisor is good with grad students. And the reason I only mentioned one PoI per school was cuz I was just talking about the person I would most like to work with. Obviously that could change with rotations, each school does have other PIs that I am interested in.

Oh yeah! Congrats!!!! And the other two programs are actually neuro programs, but yeah trynna make up my mind by the end of this week

hey... yeah i might have!! where are you from again?? have you heard back from them yet??? also any suggestions for me??

Accepted to UT Austin Pharmacology and Toxicology department for Neuropharmacology track. - Liked the city, and the faculty were very like-able. - The option to combine pharmacology and neuroscience is very appealing. - Gonna work with an established PoI, that every grad student suggested would be their top pick for a dissertation committee. - Not guaranteed funding, but with my gates millennium scholarship take home stipend should be about 15 k per year. (They said I could get a GRA or other potential grants.) UT Houston GSBS for neuroscience. - Houston seemed very livable and the affiliation with MD Anderson makes for great research opportunities. - I work with Opiates and Drugs of abuse so the potential for translational studies is great. - PoI recently published in Nature Med. and thinks the follow up project would be even higher impact. (But not sure if he has grad students cuz the nature med paper was all post-docs) - Guaranteed 29k per year take home stipend. Medical University of South Carolina for Neuroscience. - Charleston was nice, but having lived in san diego and la, the texas cities felt more my pace and style. - Great program in drugs of abuse, but the scope seems fairly limited to addiction in rodents. (I have already been doing similar research for 4 years now and would like to expand a little more in grad school) - Potential to work with one of the bigger names in drug abuse research. (Talked to him over skype and he said he could make no garauntees that he would be taking students, he only keeps two at a time. Although they would be leaving around the same time i would commit to a lab.) - Guaranteed 23 k stipend with a chance to receive an additional 2 k through a fellowship offered by the school. UT is well UT and my postdoc (whose letter pretty much got me in) went there and highly recommends the school. The PoI is well established and sure to help make great connections for a post doc. The stipend is not great but doable. UTHSC GSBS the affiliation with MD Anderson Cancer Center and the proximity to BCM and Rice makes for countless collaboration opportunities and the stipend is amazing. MUSC gives me the chance to work with one of the more known researchers in drugs of abuse, but no guarantee that I will get into his lab. No idea what to do :/ Any suggestions?????