PhD

UNC
Stanford
U Chicago
Berkely
MIT

Maybe Duke or John's Hopkins

Anything else is meme tier.

What about Stanford's program is great? Not saying it isn't, but I did not like the sound of its curriculum and program as much Berkely and the other UC system schools.

>>9041176
When you graduate, your diploma will say "Stanford" on it and people will be like "wow! This guy is smart!!!"

>>9041183
Who gives a shit.

If the merit of your degree is greater than the merit of your work, you'll never be more than a meme.

>>9041150
Macro or micro?

>>9041193
Precisely! I want to go to institution that gives me the best opportunity at a faculty position. So if anyone is in a systems bio program, and has anything informative to share, I would be really appreciative.

>>9041150
Scripp's Research Institute is pretty high up there, if you can get in.

>>9041232
More than likely micro, but open to either

>>9041193
You won't get a job in acedemia if you don't get a degree from anywhere he listed + the Ivies. Half of tenure track positions come from top 10 or 20 (can't remember which but I presume 20) schools regardless of the school's individual proficiency in the subject.

>>9041193
For better or worse, academics (Biologists included) largely think in memes like "-omics" or "statistical power", and that extends to how they see the field, so they use the prestige of a school as a shortcut/proxy for evaluating whether a postdoc or potential PhD candidate will be worthy of collaborating with them.

Anybody familiar with UCSD/UCI or MIT?

I think I would prefer MIT. Other Ivy's are good too

>>9041259
>t. someone who probably hasn't even started college