{"id":15404,"date":"2020-11-11T14:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/?page_id=15404"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:28:08","slug":"admissions-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/apply\/request-for-application-materials\/admissions-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions Criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Admissions to GPN are handled through the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/people\/leadership\/graduate-administration\/gpn-steering-committee-composition\/\" style=\"color: #000000;\">GPN Graduate Education Steering Committee<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">. <\/span><\/span>Each member represents the GPN training faculty within their departmental units as well as an area of neuroscience research at Boston University.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">Interview consideration is based on the following:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Of greatest importance) Previous research experience and letters of recommendation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Personal statement of motivation, accomplishments, career goals, and reason for PhD study<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interest from GPN training faculty (if you are a student, please reach out to faculty members for whom you have the greatest interest after submitting your application)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Academic performance as measured by GPA and from letters of recommendation\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Availability of research laboratories of interest to the applicant<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\">Criteria for offer of admissions:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Faculty and student impressions from the applicant interviews and visit to the campus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Student match for the program and its mission<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Identification of laboratories for entering student rotations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admissions to GPN are handled through the GPN Graduate Education Steering Committee. Each member represents the GPN training faculty within their departmental units as well as an area of neuroscience research at Boston University.\u00a0 Interview consideration is based on the following: (Of greatest importance) Previous research experience and letters of recommendation Personal statement of motivation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2552,"featured_media":0,"parent":2919,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15404"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15421,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15404\/revisions\/15421"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neuro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}