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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2006, 11:27:58 AM »
Quote from: ximik on November 20, 2006, 11:22:42 AM
well, I don't know. The first time when I read your blog left such an impression. Maybe I am not an attentive reader :)

It can be language/cultural thing as well.
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2006, 12:52:17 AM »
Mol. Bio. department is hard to get into.
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2006, 08:50:22 AM »
Quote from: Mitch on November 21, 2006, 12:52:17 AM
Mol. Bio. department is hard to get into.
I thought so and additionally I realised yesterday that Berkeley has no online-recommendation system. However, since my department is awesome they cover all the postage costs :)
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2006, 12:30:06 PM »
Mitch: I don't think Berkeley would look favorably upon my GPA.
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2006, 12:44:30 PM »
What I did to help with that was to max out my research credits. Research is a nice grade fluffer. Make sure you kick butt on the GRE tests and have wonderful glowing letters of recommendation and a lot of research under your belt.
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2006, 08:02:33 PM »
From what I've heard of the admissions process, research experience and the letter(s) from your research advisiors are by far the most important factors in grad school admissions.  The GREs especially the subject test, don't seem to count much.  One of my friends got into the pchem program at Berkeley even though he refused to answer any ochem questions on the chem GRE (which is somewhere around 40% of the exam).

BTW, I'm applying to the biophysics program at Berkeley, so if you have any hook ups there...
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2006, 08:46:51 PM »
My voice is worth very little in any admissions process. All I can offer is a night of free beer. Mmmmm.... Beer...
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2006, 06:20:50 AM »
Quote from: Yggdrasil on November 21, 2006, 08:02:33 PM
From what I've heard of the admissions process, research experience and the letter(s) from your research advisiors are by far the most important factors in grad school admissions.  The GREs especially the subject test, don't seem to count much.  One of my friends got into the pchem program at Berkeley even though he refused to answer any ochem questions on the chem GRE (which is somewhere around 40% of the exam).

BTW, I'm applying to the biophysics program at Berkeley, so if you have any hook ups there...
Excellent, because I seemed to have messed up my analytical writing part - only 3.5 points.

mmmh beer. Research credits? I hope that's something purely american. At least I have something like 7 internships to present.

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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2006, 12:32:13 AM »
Happy to be excitable!   ;D

All this admissions talk sounds strange - how many hoops do you have to jump through before you make it into grad school?
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2006, 06:34:16 AM »
Cool, propterDocy made it to the forum as well :)

Quote from: Propter Doc on November 24, 2006, 12:32:13 AM
All this admissions talk sounds strange - how many hoops do you have to jump through before you make it into grad school?
No1: GRE general test
No2: conquer the online application systems (some of them are really bad-ass stuff)
No3: personal statement (um, yeah... I've been struggling with these for months already)
No4: be brilliant at the interview
No5: be brilliant
No6: preferably be Amercian (some pages sound like "If you're not don't even bother to apply")

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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #25 on: November 27, 2006, 09:14:30 AM »
I don't understand why I'd want to study in the US when I'd have to pay huge amounts of money for that.

Do you get money at all for PhD studies?
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #26 on: November 27, 2006, 02:07:23 PM »
Quote from: Equi on November 20, 2006, 06:37:07 AM
yeah, all come to Berkeley.

Quote from: FeLiXe on November 27, 2006, 09:14:30 AM
I don't understand why I'd want to study in the US when I'd have to pay huge amounts of money for that.

Money's what's holding me back from application to Berkeley too...It was totally on my list, I was gonna write my GREs and stuff, then looked at the International Tuition and said, "**** that."

So if anybody wants to pay to send me there, I'll change my mind ;)
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #27 on: November 27, 2006, 02:28:46 PM »
The department pays the tuition fees. I've never heard of a science PhD student paying anything out of pocket, whether they're out-of-state or out-of-country at any US university.
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #28 on: November 27, 2006, 02:48:17 PM »
ok, I guess that's pretty cool then. since you get all that tuition payed for being at a nice university. so I guess I'll just apply for a few universities around the world and see if someone wants me. It's still three more years though.
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Re: Investigations of "excitable" female bloggers!
« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2006, 04:32:34 PM »
Quote from: Mitch on November 27, 2006, 02:28:46 PM
The department pays the tuition fees. I've never heard of a science PhD student paying anything out of pocket, whether they're out-of-state or out-of-country at any US university.

I'm intrigued.  I was under the impression that you get a stipend for being a grad student, and you'd pay the tuition out of that stipend (and still have enough to live off of in the meantime)...

If the department covers the tuition fee, and the stipend just goes straight to me, then hot damn, sign me up!
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