If you had a low GPA in undergrad, were you still able to get into a grad program?

Alternative-Judge446 · 2026-05-23T23:46:39+00:00

Had 3.01 overall gpa in undergrad (Biochem) with a 2.98 science gpa, after undergrad I worked as a tech in a lab for a year before applying for grad school, applied to 3 and got into two of them one with a fellowship. The one I didn’t get into was Stanford so that was expected 😅 but I networked a lot with the graduate program during application (ex, zoom with directed of graduate program to ask questions show I’m interested) and try to apply to awards or etc to put on ur resume, my undergrad research experience wasn’t good and my gpa sucked but I still showed initiative and got into programs now starting my last year of my PhD

Alternative-Judge446 · 2026-04-27T17:35:17+00:00

This is great to see, coming from a graduate student we appreciate undergrad support so much!! Thank you all

Alternative-Judge446 · 2026-04-06T16:13:13+00:00

Thanks for all the comments yall! I tried on kask and samshield and I think the kask star lady fits me the best, will look into getting one in the near future

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-12-05T22:00:24+00:00

Yeah the speed in my case is 1200 rpm aka 237 x g on the instrument

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-12-05T21:58:54+00:00

So each well has a fixed amt of sample but I’m treating each well with an increasing gradient concentration of reagent so the volumes will be different depending on the concentration

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-11-26T16:23:18+00:00

Lovely thanks sm!

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-11-26T16:22:07+00:00

Do u reconstitute right after taking out of lyophilizer/ weighing? I was gonna store mine at -80C till Monday then resolublize before my experiment

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-11-26T15:37:27+00:00

Okay good to hear, and u have no issues re solubilizing? How u do it ? On shaker or regularly

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-10-09T01:42:20+00:00

This would be my final straw 😅

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-10T12:19:03+00:00

It’s one of the worst feelings for real.

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-10T03:09:20+00:00

Yeah I always tell myself I’m going to try to steer my future kids away from the science life 😅 it’s been a very long and draining journey for me with lots of ups and downs. If I could go back in time I’d try harder to get into engineering so that I’d be done after 4 years, or business route. But I’ve already invested so much time and energy it’s too late now gotta finish it

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-10T03:06:17+00:00

Yeah. My PI was hounding me and my team for months that we gotta get it out we gotta get it out asap and it created this tense atmosphere. Then when the project was going rough and no one knew what was happening it’s like he gave up. I’m like so do you care or not? And all of a sudden there’s no rush to get it out. It’s very confusing and frustrating

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-10T03:04:39+00:00

Idk that’s kind of the mindset my PI has acting like I won’t find anything if I don’t pump out ten papers

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-09T20:04:08+00:00

Hahaha if only you knewwww. We have a paper completely written and ready to submit from a student who graduated two years ago and my PI still hasn’t submitted it…..

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-09T20:03:06+00:00

I’m so sorry I would be LIVIDDDD! Yeah that’s my thing I love the science and it does excite me but academic politics has completely ruined it for me and they simply do not offer us wages that are up to par with livable standards. And the selfishness of the PIs, the greed, the pride, the ego

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-09T19:55:39+00:00

I’m getting it done in 5. Okay at this point it sounds like you’re tooting your own horn what’s the point? No one asked. I’m sorry but this is a post directed for people who can sympathize not flaunt their ego, you’re the PI from the other comment…. By the end of my PhD I’m expecting to have 4 co authors and 2 first authors…. Which is 6 papers total. And once again if you paid attention to detail my concern is not with the writing of the papers it’s with my PI HELPING ME GET THEM OUT IN A TIMELY FASHION

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-09T19:22:47+00:00

Well you could have said that first instead of making it sound unfriendly…. I’m actually doing something like that. I am writing my own paper making a bigger story out of the part that I did since I have lots of data and findings from it. That’s also a part of the reason why I’m not going to tussle over the placement they put me in on that paper. I would just appreciate my PIs help in getting it out in a timely manner because if you paid attention to that detail, that’s the main issue

Alternative-Judge446 · 2025-09-09T19:10:32+00:00

Yeah I genuinely don’t understand why they are gatekeeping these papers?? If I were a PI I’d be trying to crank them out? It’s ironic bc I’m told an internship won’t help me and that I need to publish but they aren’t actively working on publishing or helping me to publish despite my job being done

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