Research after undergraduate.

norcalguy
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:58:11 +0000

It depends. All I had to do was submit my application for the IRTA program and I had four PI’s inquiring within a week. One even went ahead and called all my recommenders because she didn’t want to wait for the rec letters to arrive.

I also know someone who had to personally email 80 PI’s at the NIH before he found one willing to take him.

The NIH is a place where connections go a long way. It’s difficult to get your foot in the door w/o connections (a connection could be that a PI who works here is a family friend or one of your professors knows a PI at the NIH and can send them an email for you, etc.).