Another naive "do I have a chance?" thread...

[Adiabat]

All right, I'm really sorry to sound like a whiny high school student applying to college, but could someone tell me how likely I am to get into modest or top MSTPs?

Stats: 2 and a half years (school years) on one project, a year on another project with a different group (though not very fruitful), and three summers in a different lab with several projects. I'm a co-author on two papers and two posters. GPA: 3.81. MCAT: 33R (much lower than I predicted). And some other extracurricular crap.

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[Booyakasha]

All right, I'm really sorry to sound like a whiny high school student applying to college, but could someone tell me how likely I am to get into modest or top MSTPs?

Stats: 2 and a half years (school years) on one project, a year on another project with a different group (though not very fruitful), and three summers in a different lab with several projects. I'm a co-author on two papers and two posters. GPA: 3.81. MCAT: 33R (much lower than I predicted). And some other extracurricular crap.

You should be OK. Your GPA is fine and your research experience/pubs sound above average. I had the same MCAT score, and I was also very disappointed. However, it seems that research matters the most. It's good that you have some publicaitons... I don't have any yet and I am about to send my AMCAS in. (I am on the verge of completing the synthesis of a natural product though, so hopefully I will get my first-author pub before interviews.)

 

[jjmack]

I had the same excat MCAT total and a lower GPA and my 3 years of fulltime research was much more important in me getting ~10interviews and two MSTP offers.

All right, I'm really sorry to sound like a whiny high school student applying to college, but could someone tell me how likely I am to get into modest or top MSTPs?

Stats: 2 and a half years (school years) on one project, a year on another project with a different group (though not very fruitful), and three summers in a different lab with several projects. I'm a co-author on two papers and two posters. GPA: 3.81. MCAT: 33R (much lower than I predicted). And some other extracurricular crap.

 

[Booyakasha]

I had the same excat MCAT total and a lower GPA and my 3 years of fulltime research was much more important in me getting ~10interviews and two MSTP offers.

How many pubs did you have when you applied? Just wondering.

 

[gwang]

Having publications is important, but not the one thing that'll make or break your application. When I applied I had zero publication (one in preparation), and a few posters. I think it was more important that I had worked on a well designed project and that I could explain it to people, even if they didn't work in the same field.

 

[jjmack]

How many pubs did you have when you applied? Just wondering.

one pub and abstract and ~3 other papers in prep (my PI is very slow.)

 

[Booyakasha]

Thats good to know that pubs don't matter as much as doing prolonged, quality research...