am I hopeful for the offers of TOP50-100

[jiasc]

HIall.

I will granduate at 2011. Now I have taken GRE, the score is 560+790+ 3.0(pretty low), iBT is on september 12th. my GPA is 80/100, but if I use US GPA method to recalculate my GPA, it is just 2.40, and I didn't plan to go to US for study and was playful untill I'm a sophomore, that is why i have such a low GPA, but my late 2 years GPA is about 3.30, I want apply offers between 50 and 100, do you think am I hopeful? and what is the lowest iBT score I must get for a offer. Thank you. who can help me...waiting..

[Eigen]

I think we really need more information to help you.

What area of study are you interested in? Masters or PhD?

Could you fund yourself, or do you need funding from the school?

Do you have any publications/research experience? These are the largest components of most applications. They can certainly counter low grades/scores.

What about possible professors for letters of recommendations? If you can get 3 glowing letters of recommendations from people with decent reputations, low scores/grades don't matter nearly as much.

[jiasc]

I think we really need more information to help you.

What area of study are you interested in? Masters or PhD?

Could you fund yourself, or do you need funding from the school?

Do you have any publications/research experience? These are the largest components of most applications. They can certainly counter low grades/scores.

What about possible professors for letters of recommendations? If you can get 3 glowing letters of recommendations from people with decent reputations, low scores/grades don't matter nearly as much.

Sorry, I forgot to tell you these. My major in China is aquaculture, I wanna apply PhD about biology if I will get funding (RA, TA or fellowship, anyone is OK. I think I will have a self-reproaching spirit if I still need my parents' money.) Now I am always staying at my department head's molecular biology lab to do some easy works and I have a 2-moths experience on a research institute of a biotech firm(it may be famous only in China). My department head took his PhD at Umich.but I think he is not particularly well-known in China, let alone in the world. he will write a recommendation for me. I have a paper in Core Chinese Academic Journals and a paper in SCI, but the latter will be published until 2011 Spring. So that's all.