What are my chances?? HELP!!!!!!

PhD-Bound
Sat, 31 May 2008 22:41:28 +0000

To sydneya: Thanks for your inputs. Again, the reason I’m going crazy with these schools is 1) I am international and so the chances of admissions are lower for us, and 2) I have done some research on the PI’s from these schools and found some labs that I am serious about, since my area of interest is very widely studied. If given a chance to interview, I will try to attend as many as possible because I really think you can’t fully judge a school until you have seen and talked with the people there. You are right, I may have too many in the list, and perhaps I should substitute some of the “reach” schools with a couple of safeties.

To ysk1: I took some time off after undergrad to work full-time as a tech in a lab, and I have recently figured out that research is what I wanted to do for the rest of my career.