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Hi everyone,
I'm in the midst of applying to MD/PHD programs. I realize it's a little late, but I have some questions.
Is this too late to apply? Should I wait til next year? I'm worried having to re-apply will hurt my application.
A lot of these schools are really competitive and some of the programs which when I looked at their scores like Georgetown gpa 3.76 MCAT 32 are a lot more competitive than their numbers would suggest. I was hoping some of you could suggest some less competitive schools, or a good way to determine where to apply when my stats aren't quite as high as I'd hoped.
I want to study either Neuroscience or Bioinformatics. My gpa is low, I have a 3.5 in biomedical engineering, but my MCAT is higher I have a 520. My research experience isn't quite coherant. I'm continuing some clinical research at a hospital in my city that I've been working at for a little over a year, though it's mostly looking through patient record data. I'm more involved in a lab at my university. It's a computer science lab, but it's looking at asthma data with machine learning. It's more coding and data analysis. Since machine learning is such a big thing in Neuroscience I've really enjoyed my experience and am continuing there and have been there for a little over a year.
I also worked in a biology lab for 2 semesters, but don't think I achieved anything worth more than the casual mention.
Do you have any suggestions on where to apply? Or if I should wait?
If you think my stats are just too low to consider, do you have any suggestions for what I should to do to beef up my resume and then apply? I really want to continue a career and research and still have a clinical impact.
I'm in the midst of applying to MD/PHD programs. I realize it's a little late, but I have some questions.
Is this too late to apply? Should I wait til next year? I'm worried having to re-apply will hurt my application.
A lot of these schools are really competitive and some of the programs which when I looked at their scores like Georgetown gpa 3.76 MCAT 32 are a lot more competitive than their numbers would suggest. I was hoping some of you could suggest some less competitive schools, or a good way to determine where to apply when my stats aren't quite as high as I'd hoped.
I want to study either Neuroscience or Bioinformatics. My gpa is low, I have a 3.5 in biomedical engineering, but my MCAT is higher I have a 520. My research experience isn't quite coherant. I'm continuing some clinical research at a hospital in my city that I've been working at for a little over a year, though it's mostly looking through patient record data. I'm more involved in a lab at my university. It's a computer science lab, but it's looking at asthma data with machine learning. It's more coding and data analysis. Since machine learning is such a big thing in Neuroscience I've really enjoyed my experience and am continuing there and have been there for a little over a year.
I also worked in a biology lab for 2 semesters, but don't think I achieved anything worth more than the casual mention.
Do you have any suggestions on where to apply? Or if I should wait?
If you think my stats are just too low to consider, do you have any suggestions for what I should to do to beef up my resume and then apply? I really want to continue a career and research and still have a clinical impact.