Is my application good enough for top-10 Ph.D programs in neuroscience?

psycholing
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 04:12:37 +0000

Do you have some explanation for why you think you would enjoy doing research in neuroscience over the activities you have been doing? Are you thinking of computational neuroscience, or another subfield? As a (former) faculty member in a dept. that included neuroscience, if I evaluated your application, I would have concerns that you would not be happy discarding your lucrative career track to work as an underpaid teaching assistant and researcher in my lab for the next 5 years. On the other hand, if you wanted to work in computational neuroscience, and had some direct experience building applications in this area, and convinced me that you urgently wanted a career in academia rather than the private sector, I might consider your application.