October 20, 2006

RAMBLE

Ok, so I've narrowed down my list of grad schools to 8 schools that I think I'd like to go to: Stanford - Biophysics Harvard - Systems Biology UC San Francisco - Biophyics MIT - Computational and Systems Biology UC Santa Barbara - Biomolecular Science and Engineering UC San Diego - Bioinformatics Rockefeller University - Physics and Mathematical Biology Arizona State University - Molecular and Cellular Biology I know Stanford, Harvard, UCSF, and MIT are all really competitive. I'm not sure whether Rockefeller is, although I suspect it is. I should have a good shot at getting into UCSD or UCSB, and ASU is sort of my 'safe' school. This is a fat chunk of money to apply to all of these...I'm not sure if I'll end up actually submitting applications to them all. Although I guess it's small potatoes compared to the magnitude of the decision, and I'll definitely do something unpleasant if I don't get in anywhere! Also, there's the geographic issue. Four of the schools are on the west coast (two are in San Francisco, one is near Los Angeles, and the other in San Diego), one is in Phoenix, Arizona, two are in Massachusetts, and one is in New York City. I like the west coast a lot, and Arizona is really cool in its own way. I'm not really crazy about the idea of moving to Massachusetts. NYC is kind of a mixed bag. Hmm. thus ranteth Pericles v. 2.0 at 3:56 PM | Permalink |