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Applicants interested in Penn's Cell and Molecular
Biology Graduate Group should click here to
go to the Biomedical Graduate Studies online application form.
You can download our brochure here
(pdf)
International applications are due by December
1. Domestic applications are due by December 15. Applications
will be evaluated in late December and early January. Domestic
applicants who are selected for interviews will be invited,
at our expense, for one of three interview sessions held in
January, February and early March. Announcement of admission
and fellowship awards to successful candidates will normally
be made shortly after the interview session. International
applicants will be interviewed by telephone. All CAMB students
receive fellowships that cover tuition and fees, as well as
a stipend of $26,520 per year.
We require the general GRE test and the TOEFL
for applicants from countries where English is not the first
language. Test scores must be submitted from ETS by the deadline,
December 1 for international applicants and by December 15
for domestic applicants. It is important for students applying
to this program from outside the United States to realize
that funding for overseas students is very limited, and thus
the application process is extremely competitive.
All aspects of the application are important
to us. We expect that all of our applicants will have had
significant research experience. Please include specific information
about your research experience in your personal statement.
Please also be sure to ask at least one of your research mentors
to provide a letter of recommendation; preferably, that should
be the person who has been your mentor in your most recent
research endeavor.
Admission decisions are e-mailed to all applicants
no later than March 15. Decisions will not be released by
telephone or fax. Admitted applicants will receive their admit
packet in the mail. Please allow 10 to 14 business days for
receipt of the packet.
The deadline to accept or decline the offer of admission
is April 15. If your original admission reply form is not
received by April 15, BGS has discretion to rescind the offer
of admission and financial aid. The University of Pennsylvania
subscribes to the policy of the Council of Graduate Schools
(http://www.cgsnet.org/portals/0/pdf/CGSResolutionMarch2008.pdff)
regarding this reply date.
2007 Admissions
Season
We had 529 applications to our program for entrance
in Fall 2007, 319 from US citizens or permanent residents
of the US and 210 from citizens of other countries. Of the
US citizens/permanent residents, we invited 108 candidates
to interview, interviewed 97 of those, and accepted 90. We
interviewed 7 non-US candidates, and accepted all of them.
Our incoming class will have 34 students (plus 2 who deferred
from 2006). (67% female, 9% under-represented minority and
12% international) The table below breaks down their GPA and
GRE scores. Please keep in mind that these numbers are not
the only thing that our admissions committee looks at. Research
experience, publications and letters of recommendation play
an important role in the selection process.
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Average |
Max |
Min |
GPA |
3.6 |
4.0 |
3.28 |
Verbal |
631 |
740 |
400 |
Quantitative |
738 |
800 |
630 |
Writing |
4.7 |
6.0 |
3.0 |
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