The BIO thread - profiles/stats

[Hermione]

Hello everyone! So how are all bio ppl doing? Where will you guys go this fall? I am yet to hear from Duke. If I dont get in there, I will choose either UT southwestern (most likely) or UMass Med.

@shreya: welcome!

[MBAers09]

Has anyone here been accepted to Uva biomedical science ph.d program yet?

[mol_bio]

hi everyone,

thanks for the welcome suja. congrats on your admits.

well steinrog , i am currently pursuing masters in plant molecular biology,did my bachelors in biochemistry, have done a summer training undera scientist and the coming year i will be having dissertation for a complete year as part of my course work. that is my academic background till now.
i write my gre in august and subject gre in november. but i am going to try for a score of a good score.
so, what do you think of such a background?

a request to everyone who is recieving admits. please, when you post about ur admit, please post your profile also, that is your toefl and gre scores. it will be really helpfull for newcomers like me.....

best wishes,
shreya

[ramlau]

Georgia Tech CS/Econ double major
GRE: 630V/800Q/5.0AWA
GPA: 3.79 Overall, 4.00 Econ
Math: Multivariable Calc (A), ODE (B), Combinatorics (A), Prob and Stats (A), senior-level Linear Algebra (A), Real Analysis (C, alas), will take Stochastic Processes and more stats next semester (and will do well)
Econ: Intermediate Micro (A)/Macro (A), Econometrics (A)

TA Experience: 6 semesters of teaching twice-a-week recitations (from Pre-calc to Multivariable Calc), graded homeworks and tests for some upper-level math classes
RA Experience: Awarded 2 internal undergraduate research grants working on economic research since 2004 ($3000)
Related stuff: 6 full-time semesters of Co-op internships as a SAS programmar/analyst for the Insitute of Nuclear Power Operations (established after Three-Mile Island in 1979)


Results as of 3/31/06
Economics Doctoral Programs
Accepted: Rice (waiver + $15k/yr), CUNY (NO AID WTF), JHU (waiver + $12.5k/yr), BU (waiver + $16.5k/yr), Illinois (waiver + $14k/yr TA), Michigan (NO AID!)
Rejected: Yale, Brown, Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard

Finance Doctoral Programs
Accepted: Illinois GSB (waiver + $24.5k/yr)
Rejected: Duke Fuqua, Columbia GSB, Chicago GSB, NYU Stern, Harvard GSB

[Hermione]

Hey Suja....have you decided where you are going yet?
What about everyone else?

~m

Finally... yes! Duke, it is.

[vas13]

Hi friends

Im new around here! Wish id found this site earlier though! I jus finished with my GRE and TOEFL. I shall be apping for Phd programs in Computational and Systems Biology/ Bioinformatics track basically for fall 2007.

My GRE score (1430 overall) : Quant- 750, Verbal-680
AWA and TOEFL :awaited

My college didnt have GPAs ,
Masters in Bioinformatics : i got 79.8%(Topper=84% second topper=82.2%)
Bacheolar's from Delhi Univ,Botany track :72.2% (DU science merit scholarship for two years out of 3)
10th :79.2% , 12th:90.2%

I was considering USC,CMU,Boston,Iowa,VT and UCSD.
Can you evaluate my chances? Suggest some other schools i could consider instead?

[aditya1600]

hi frdz.....
i also belong to this minority group....but i dont think its going to b minority anymore....the number iz increasing greatly.
i have completed my masters in biochemistry....
planning to take up gre n toefl in feb 2007....probably apply for ph.d in biochemistry/mol-bio in spring 2008.
eagerly looking forward for great advises in this thread.

[vas13]

hi frdz.....
i also belong to this minority group....but i dont think its going to b minority anymore....the number iz increasing greatly.
i have completed my masters in biochemistry....
planning to take up gre n toefl in feb 2007....probably apply for ph.d in biochemistry/mol-bio in spring 2008.
eagerly looking forward for great advises in this thread.

Hi aditya

pardon me for peddling unsolicited advice , but i hope you are aware that fundings for most US universities are limited to the fall session admits? I would recommend you to aim for a fall admission rather than spring session!

[aditya1600]

thanks vas13 for the advise....
but tell me, is it possible for me to apply in the fall-07 ?
i guess most of the application deadlines fall-07 r around dec-jan....n i havent yet taken up my GRE ........

so tell me whether i can apply for fall-07,if i finish my GRE by feb-07....
i am pretty confused regarding this ...plz spare ur valuable time to advise me......................thanx in advance.

[vas13]

thanks vas13 for the advise....
but tell me, is it possible for me to apply in the fall-07 ?
i guess most of the application deadlines fall-07 r around dec-jan....n i havent yet taken up my GRE ........

so tell me whether i can apply for fall-07,if i finish my GRE by feb-07....
i am pretty confused regarding this ...plz spare ur valuable time to advise me......................thanx in advance.

Hi, its very much possible to app for fall'07 even if givin GRE in feb. Only, your choice of schools shall become rather limited. Do a comprehensive search on websites, there are a number of universities with deadlines in march ex. Florida state University. You colud zero-in on the ones with financial aid +late deadlines.
Though, the top schools will have to be counted out..if uer ok with that. Go ahead.