QUESTION: Is it possible to get into grad school (biology) with no research experience? Like, if only 10 people a year get undergrad research positions, how are other people supposed to get into grad school?
Volunteer in a research lab? But there's so many summer research positions in Toronto at the hospitals (e.g., St. Michael's, Sunnybrook, Mt. Sinai) etc that I'm surprised you couldn't get one after 4 years... Plus a lot of people dislike research so you need some more exp before dedicating yourself to this route.
I didn't have any research experience at all (I'm in science as well) but I just talked to one of my professor and said I was interested in grad school and they usually have students do a research term before they start their Master's in order to get lab experience. It was an undergrad research scholarship and as long as your marks are decent (>80%) I don't think it's too difficult to get one.
around 50 undergrads a year get research exp in biology ~30 from B499 ~12 from NSERC USRA rest from volunteering
any idiot can get into grad school in biology, but u have to be pretty topnotch to get a decent supervisor (our biology dept is mediocre in terms of reseach, mostly plant & environmental stuff, very little biomed)
I agree with 3a. I wanted to go into research and did an internship in a lab, and realized that summer that I hated research and ended up changing domains :o
Volunteer in a research lab? But there's so many summer research positions in Toronto at the hospitals (e.g., St. Michael's, Sunnybrook, Mt. Sinai) etc that I'm surprised you couldn't get one after 4 years... Plus a lot of people dislike research so you need some more exp before dedicating yourself to this route.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have any research experience at all (I'm in science as well) but I just talked to one of my professor and said I was interested in grad school and they usually have students do a research term before they start their Master's in order to get lab experience. It was an undergrad research scholarship and as long as your marks are decent (>80%) I don't think it's too difficult to get one.
ReplyDeletearound 50 undergrads a year get research exp in biology
ReplyDelete~30 from B499
~12 from NSERC USRA
rest from volunteering
any idiot can get into grad school in biology, but u have to be pretty topnotch to get a decent supervisor (our biology dept is mediocre in terms of reseach, mostly plant & environmental stuff, very little biomed)
also, bio research is by far not for everyone, which is why it is advised that you get a taste of it before entering grad school.
DeleteI agree with 3a. I wanted to go into research and did an internship in a lab, and realized that summer that I hated research and ended up changing domains :o
Delete^ switched from .org to .com ;)
DeleteOr what about from eukarya to bacteria? Archaea? ;)
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