What are the pre-requisites to be a successful graduate student? High GPA? · Great GrE score? Wealth of your family? Type of undergraduate college? Fudan ys others Rao yis argument
What are the pre-requisites to be a successful graduate student? • High GPA? • Great GRE score? • Wealth of your family? • Type of undergraduate college? – Fudan vs others? – Rao Yi’s argument
More about your college grades Good grades in high school and college are far from sufficient. In fact, they are not even necessary. There are other important traits
More about your college grades • Good grades in high school and college are far from sufficient. In fact, they are not even necessary. There are other important traits
Tom Cech QuickTime?and a 1989 Noble Prize in Chemistry T 6 Lecom ose spares President of Howard Hughes Medical Inst Professor at the University of Colorado It isn't always true that the people who are the brilliant high school students, who get the highest grades on the exam, are the ones who do well as practicing, experimental scientists. There are a lot of skills in doing experimental science that can't be tested on standardized exams cech says. B students often"are the ones who end up doing the really great work in research
Tom Cech: 1989 Noble Prize in Chemistry President of Howard Hughes Medical Inst Professor at the University of Colorado QuickTime?and a TIFF ( Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this pictur e. "It isn't always true that the people who are the brilliant high school students, who get the highest grades on the exam, are the ones who do well as practicing, experimental scientists. There are a lot of skills in doing experimental science that can't be tested on standardized exams" Cech says. B students often "are the ones who end up doing the really great work in research
EXample: Graig Hunter- Professor at Harvard Undergraduate GPA Oregon State University(80-81): 3.3 University of Oregon( 81-84) 3.1 Graduate Student University of colorado super star Postdoctoral training UCSF super star Professorship Harvard(main campus) One of the best young guys
Example: Graig Hunter- Professor at Harvard Undergraduate GPA Oregon State University (80-81): 3.3 University of Oregon (81-84): 3.1 Graduate Student University of Colorado super star Postdoctoral training UCSF super star Professorship Harvard (main campus) One of the best young guys
What besides the grades for him? Recommendation letters from the advisor Craig has had complete freedom in designing his own experiments and deciding overall strategy in the research he has conducted in my lab. His understanding and mastery of the techniques of molecular biology and his sound scientific judgment compares very favorably with that of some of our best graduate students. I have the utmost confidence that Craig Hunter would be extremely successful as a graduate student in any
What besides the grades for him? Recommendation letters from the advisor: Craig has had complete freedom in designing his own experiments and deciding overall strategy in the research he has conducted in my lab. His understanding and mastery of the techniques of molecular biology and his sound scientific judgment compares very favorably with that of some of our best graduate students. I have the utmost confidence that Craig Hunter would be extremely successful as a graduate student in any…