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wow congrats!

My UPenn email from POI started with "Thank you for applying to the University of Pennsylvania..." for 10 minutes I thought I was rejected because that choice of wording almost always meant a rejection, but then I bothered to read the message and I got in

Thanks! I got my email around 8pm eastern so perhaps they're still not done sending out emails!

Princeton offers just came out!

POI said decisions should come out soon

Congrats! was it an official acceptance or was it a personal acceptance?

Just got my unofficial acceptance to Yale from POI! Decision letters should be coming out some time soon too for wave 1. So excited!!

UCSD came out for me today and UCLA yesterday afternoon

Thanks! I applied for analytical. Seems like they will release many more on January if they follow last year's footsteps.

It's UW in Seattle for Chemistry

Got my official acceptance to UW about an hour ago. 29K/year stipend!

congrats!

Just got an unofficial acceptance from POI for Univ. of Washington!

Hi FTY720, out of curiosity when did you hear back from Davis? And for what discipline?

Hi! I am currently a senior (domestic applicant) at ucla and am planning on applying for an interdisciplinary/analytical chem Ph.D. program for Fall 2016. My stats are as follows: 3.45 overall GPA and 3.4 major GPA. The greatest detriment to my GPA has been organic chemistry, in which I have never gotten above a B in any of my 6 organic classes so far. I am going to try to explain that organic chemistry is definitely not my forte nor what I want to focus on in grad school, so hopefully they overlook my GPA a bit. GRE 170 quant 163 verbal (98th and 93rd percentile). Estimating around 60-75th percentile Chem GRE score. ~3 years research experience in one lab; 2 middle author papers will most likely be published by graduation (one probably in a impact factor >8 journal) but neither will be published by the time i submit my application, and 1.5 years of experience in another lab concurrently. In both labs I worked mostly on analytical instrumentation with biological applications. Most likely three very strong rec letters. I am just wondering that, based on my stats, what kind of schools should I look at as "safeties" and whether I should bother applying to multiple top 10 schools, or focus more on lower ranked schools? Location doesn't matter to me as long as it's in the US.