Physician needs to do a PhD?

Graduate School
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<p>Hi I am a student of medicine and surgery in India. I ll be finishing my course by April 2009 and then intend to do a PhD in either immunology or molecular biology. </p>

<p>My general GRE is 1390 V640 Q750. I have a modest research experience of about 8 months in a microbiology lab, 1 month in a biochemistry lab and a months training in cytogenetics and electron microscopy. My GPA must be more than 3.9(i haven checked it with WES but my friend has. And we have similar scores). LORs are fairly good.
Honors: Second-author in a paper published in a national journal; received a fellowship for 4 years from the Govt of India</p>

<p>Planning to apply to the following schools:</p>

<p>U of Washington
Georgia Tech
Duke
UW-Madison
U of Illinois-Urbana
Uof I-Chicago
Sloan Kettering</p>

<p>Please review my profile and any suggestions are welcome. Keeping my fingers crossed!</p>

<p>PS. does my being a physician an additional baggage or is it advantageous? I m not interested in clinical medicine.</p>

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<p>There is no way that being a physician would hurt you. i would guess that you will be assured acceptance at all of these schools.</p>

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<p>hi thanks for that reply man. any other higher ranked university that could be suitable for my profile?</p>