seafoamium

So you're saying I have a chance?

The foghorn calls never fail to make me laugh. No matter how often it happens, I am ALWAYS surprised and startled.

There's a whole field that is considering questions like this - genomic counseling. DNA isn't the whole story, even for completely Mendelian diseases, there's still variety in outcomes, and this is even more true for complex diseases like cancer and heart disease. So even if you see a certain SNP pattern correlated to a disease, it's really difficult right now to decide your true risk.

You do have to note felonies on grad school applications, and committees will take a hard look at it and determine if it's an acceptable risk to take you on. By far though, the most important part about becoming a scientist is doing independent, solid research. Get a solid lab background, maybe a paper, a known prof to write you a letter of rec and a lot of things can be forgiven.

Why would telemarketers specifically be told to call "hostile" callers more often?