Hi. Thank you very much for sharing of your advices. I realised that even though I can get the position, thing won't go well if the supervisor and I do not get alone well. Therefore being rejected is not too bad at all. At the mean time, I will ask for the feedbacks and prepare for my coming interview. I shall not give up applying the project I am interested in.

Thank you

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Hi. There are a few questions I would like to ask about application of FUNDING Phd (Mainly biomedical science, molecular biology or neuroscience) in UK. I am a EU citizen, so I am able to apply some of the funding PhD programmes. Fortunately, I was invited for the interviews for last couple applications, but they all turned me down. I thought I was well prepared for all these interviews and they asked typical questions as usual, I didn't see I acted too nervous or made any mistakes during the interview. I don't know why I got rejected. Sometimes I wish they can tell me the reason(s). I am not trying to brag here but I do have quite many lab working experiences coz I spent every summer in uni to work with different research teams since I got into uni. Also the work I am doing now is related to the field of medical science (Working in a pharmacology department now). I feel quite fustrated about being turned down again and again... I wish someone can share their experience of looking for a phd project. My ex project supervisor told me he only got few replies when he applied more than 20 universities. Is it really that difficult to get into PhD ? (P.S My final result in uni is 2:1 but I haven't gone for the further study such as Msc or MPil)

Hi. I am currently looking for an interesting funding PhD project (Mainly biomedical science, neuroscience, pharmacology......)and I am a EU citizen. Since I have failed to apply PhD project for few times in UK, I have decided to not limit myself to look for a PhD programme in UK but all over the world. I have been using www.findaphd.com quite a lot to look for a phD programme, it is quite handy and easy to use but it is mainly for the universities in uk, very few adverts posted by the Uni from the rest of the world. If I want to apply a funding PhD programme in US, what should I do? Is there any handy website like www.findaphd.com for applying in US universities too?

Thank you very much.