It's been really helpful lurking and reading others' SoPs on here, and I finally have a rough draft I'm relatively happy with. (I have about four or five false starts saved on my computer, it was kind of ridiculous.) If any of you have the time to read a science-y SoP for molecular biology PhD programs I'd very much appreciate it :D

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does anyone here know if it is common for canadian universities to offer funding (even if it's just the bare minimum to live on) to american students through ta-ships, ra-ships, etc ( Read more... )

I'll be graduating with a B.S. in Biology (math minor) next May, and am ultimately looking to do research in the science of aging (aka geroscience, biogerontology, longevity research).

I've checked out the Nathan Shock Centers in the Basic Biology of Aging (NSCs) as potential graduate schools.  The thing is I have a real, real problem with personal ( Read more... )

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My name is Kelly and I am new to this community.  I am very interested in going to grad school next fall for biology, but only after recently reading "Getting What You Came For" did I realize how behind I am!  (He suggests researching and contacting potential advisors a year and a half before APPLYING... I've got about a month and a half at best ( Read more... )

Hello all.

I want to start applying to graduate school in the next few months, but finding ones that are right for me has been proving to be remarkably difficult and frustrating. I want to get a Ph. D studying behavior of cephalopods, and after months of searching online, I have only found three professors who are in that field in the United States ( Read more... )

Hey everybody. I've been watching this community since fall of last year. It was very helpful reading everyone's experiences last year and it has definitely helped me this year while I apply. I also know this is the time when the community gets flooded with SOP's. Anyway, I thought I would add mine for anyone helpful enough to take a quick look.

( Genetics/Genomics SOP in Division of Biomedical Sciences )

Since the age of fifteen I have belonged to the ZOOLOGY SUPERCLUB, a field biology group where middle and high school students get to travel all over Russia researching the population dynamics of various small mammal species. While developing a system for cataloguing the Club’s library, I stumbled upon a Soviet-era translation of Charlotte Auerbach ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm a little ( lot) clueless. I realized that perhaps, just perhaps, I really want to attend grad school not in Russia, but in the US. That scares the living daylights out of me. I have virtually no idea how to actually get accepted to a good program in the US (and how to to pay for it, though from what I've been able to find online most ( Read more... )

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