Profile evaluation- International student

[Soheila]

International student from Iran – graduated from reputed universities in Iran

 

BSc: Medical Radiation Science – Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

MSc: Medical Biotechnology – Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

GPA: 3.9 for both my BSc and MSc

 GRE: will take in November 14^th 

TOEFL = 94

Research Experience: completely familiar with molecular biology techniques and work on my thesis project for 1 year at the lab.

-       Attended to many workshops

Publications: 1 in JTB as the first author (IF = 2.1), one chapter book of computational biology published in in Wiley (as a co-author), another manuscript under review in which I am the first author.

LOR: 5 professors from my Msc studies and 1 professor of my undergrad who knew me very well at the time and will support me a lot. (1 of my professors is working in NIH and one in drug design company at Washington DC.

I have chosen programs whose research focus are on molecular bioscience and biopharmaceuticals.

Current List:

Cornell (BBS)

Rice (Biochemistry)

Georgetown (Biochemistry and molecular biology)

George Washington (Biomedical science)

Maryland-college park (BBS)

Wisconsin-Madison (Pharmaceutical Science)

UCSF (BBS)

WashU (Biology and Biological Sciences)

University of Florida (Pharmaceutical Science)

Northwestern (Biotechnology, Systems & Synthetic Biology)

Please give me any comment if I need to look for less competitive programs to apply.

P.S. My brother is a lecturer at Cornell university as a faculty.