Where can I apply?

[centurysun]

Hello, everyone.

I am a Chinese medical student in the final stages of obtaining my degree as a Bachelor of Medicine.

I am interested in Phd programs in biomedical sciences and public health in USA. However, I don`t know much which school I should apply to, in order to get an offer.

My GRE score: V620, Q800, AW 4.0

In my school, we haven`t initatite any kind of evaluations like GPA. Now our academic scores are still based on a 100-scale. And my avearge score is about 85.

I only have three articles(2 are reviews, one is a meta-analysis) pubished in Chinese Journals. I am lack of research experience, because the degree I will obatin does not require a lot of skills in lab or any kind of research field. So far, I only did one experiment in a lab in my school for about half a year, and mostly doing experiments after class(not full-time in lab), and went to another two lab for a few days (did not do much work in those two). I am now doing a research with a publich health professor, and just got back the questionaires, but didn`t put the data into computer for further analysis.

I got sort of awards or schoolarship every year. And I will probably get a sort of award( a province-level) next term for writing a report on a field research in some rural areas(it is a summer program for undergraduates). I was a volunteer in the hospital which is affilaited to my university when they admitted some wounded in 2008 after the eathquake, a nature disaster happened in China, which you probabaly know.

By the way, my university (ranking about 25 to 30 in all chinese medical schools) is not a famous or very good one in China. I doubt whether it will have a negative impacts on my application.

Although I've read the websites of many universities and the program descriptions, as well as the rankings on USNEWS and so on, what I know about US grad schools and their reputation can be limited. So I thought it would be more helpful if I could hear some of your opinions. could you please help me and tell me which university in the USA will be a better choice for me?

Thank you

Edited August 28, 2010 by centurysun