SamCurt
08-11-05, 12:56 PM
I may have sounded very negative in my previous post (http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10793), but things have changed a bit around.
I successfully done something I considered unpossible before-- two semesters of B+, raising my final grade to B. My grades over the BSc program is here (http://www.livejournal.com/%7Esamcurt/114137.html). (Note that I was diagnosed just before the second last semester. Since I'm in Hong Kong I take 3 years of college)
The MSc course, as it turned out, is more like an American MS course, but without a dissertation.
I still have aspirations for a PhD, and, upon asking the school counsellor, he said my grades are not yet enough to get PhD's of any type anywhere, but taking a Master's course can improve chances if I got an A- or above in the following year, for example. I have received research assistantship and would work in the lab for 1.5 years, and my final year project would be published soon. So, now my questions are:
How are my chances of getting a Ph.D in biological sciences in a at least decent college?
What should I especially note when I choose grad schools, in addition to those advices known by "normal" prospective students?
Would my undergrad grades haunt me during my application?
When I write my Statement of Purpose, should I mention ADD at all? If I should, how should I word it to prevent the admissions thinking I'm making myself excuses?
Sorry for asking a lot of questions-- and thank you in advance!
I successfully done something I considered unpossible before-- two semesters of B+, raising my final grade to B. My grades over the BSc program is here (http://www.livejournal.com/%7Esamcurt/114137.html). (Note that I was diagnosed just before the second last semester. Since I'm in Hong Kong I take 3 years of college)
The MSc course, as it turned out, is more like an American MS course, but without a dissertation.
I still have aspirations for a PhD, and, upon asking the school counsellor, he said my grades are not yet enough to get PhD's of any type anywhere, but taking a Master's course can improve chances if I got an A- or above in the following year, for example. I have received research assistantship and would work in the lab for 1.5 years, and my final year project would be published soon. So, now my questions are:
How are my chances of getting a Ph.D in biological sciences in a at least decent college?
What should I especially note when I choose grad schools, in addition to those advices known by "normal" prospective students?
Would my undergrad grades haunt me during my application?
When I write my Statement of Purpose, should I mention ADD at all? If I should, how should I word it to prevent the admissions thinking I'm making myself excuses?
Sorry for asking a lot of questions-- and thank you in advance!