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

snowcapk
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:14:36 +0000

OP, it’s looking very good for you, but I’m wondering where you got your undergrad degree from. Is it a university that Harvard, etc. will have heard of? Are they on the four-point system? (If not, how did you convert your GPA?) Also, are professors at those schools likely to have heard of the PI you work for now? These are common hangups for international students. Even then, some schools (like Rockefeller) are more reasonable with international students than others.

I agree with sydneya that you need to narrow your list of schools. I mean, Caltech and Princeton for biomedical sciences? These are great institutions, but biomedicine is practically nonexistent at those places, neither of which is associated with a medical school. Also, Yale and Hopkins are in bad (dare I say unlivable?) towns. Hope that helps ;)