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Fall 2011 Visitation weekends


Jessi

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Hey guys, I have been wondering about when everyones' visitation weekends are. Post them here so everyone can see!

UNC Chapel Hill: March 11-13, March 25-27

UColorado Boulder: March 11-13

UTexas Austin: February 11-13, March 11-13

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Stony Brook Biochemistry and Structural Biology: all Mondays in February

Rutgers Biochemistry: Feb 18th and Mar 25th

Columbia: Biological Chemistry - Mar 3rd-4th recommended All others: Mar 25th heard from a professor I talked with, have not received these dates from anything official but someone on here confirmed.

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I just discovered today that University of Illinois is doing weekends by interest- materials chemistry is March 31-April 2.

The letter I received didn't mention any specific visitation dates by program, it just said to contact a specific professor about making arrangements to visit. I applied for Physical Chemistry though, so maybe it's different.

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Anyone have any idea what kinds of questions they ask at interviews? I figure be familiar with nuancies of the department and the research of any professor you meet with as well as any ultimate plans you have for what you want to do with your career. Besides that not sure what to prepare.

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Anyone know about Yale's visitation dates? I just got accepted today but the link from the website basically said "you're accepted, good job" and nothing else.

I got an email last week saying Yale's visitation weekend is March 24/25. I assume this is for the whole department, although the email I got was specific to orgo.

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I got an email last week saying Yale's visitation weekend is March 24/25. I assume this is for the whole department, although the email I got was specific to orgo.

The letter I got from Yale didn't mention anything about paying for our plane fare. Does this mean they aren't paying for us to visit? Pretty much every school I've gotten into except for Yale, with a 16 billion endowment, pays for the visit. WTF?

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The letter I got from Yale didn't mention anything about paying for our plane fare. Does this mean they aren't paying for us to visit? Pretty much every school I've gotten into except for Yale, with a 16 billion endowment, pays for the visit. WTF?

Can you list the names if the universities that you gained admission that paid for your visit? Thank you very much in advance. :)

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Can you list the names if the universities that you gained admission that paid for your visit? Thank you very much in advance. :)

UCLA

UT Austin

University of Chicago

Princeton

UCSD

Cornell

I know that many others do. These and Yale are all the schools I've gotten into. So I think it's strange that Yale won't pay for the visit.

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I too am confused about the lack of information from Yale about any reimbursement. It's already a hassle for me to go, so if they aren't paying, I won't be attending.

To make matters worse, New Haven is incredibly difficult to get to (from my perspective) and its on the same weekend that the ACS conference starts.

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UCLA

UT Austin

University of Chicago

Princeton

UCSD

Cornell

I know that many others do. These and Yale are all the schools I've gotten into. So I think it's strange that Yale won't pay for the visit.

Is the reason why Yale won't pay for the visit due to the fact of supply and demand similar to how some application fees are waived? Here is what I mean. Since Yale is a top university, people compete against each other to gain admission, so Yale doesn't have to compete against other universities to take in top students, so that is why they feel like "Well we are a top university, so we are too good to pay for the visits. If you like us, you have to put in money to visit us. If you don't want to visit us and enroll at our university, well then there are always other students who will take the missing spots."

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No, any top program (and most all programs for chemistry) will put money forward for visitation.

Yale actually is providing funds for travel, they were just later in indicating so.

Yep, I got that email a few days ago. Yale is going to pay they just sent out a letter inviting us before they sent out the letter saying they were going to pay.

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To make matters worse, New Haven is incredibly difficult to get to (from my perspective) and its on the same weekend that the ACS conference starts.

New Haven is actually fairly simple to get to. Get to NYC, then metronorth. From Boston, take amtrak.

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I already said this in the Fall 2011 Chemistry thread, but I'll post the question here again since not many people may check both threads:

Can anyone give me a list of PhD Chemistry programs where you applied and the application fee was waived? I'm not asking for a consolidated list obviously, but just the ones you know of and applied. Thank you very much in advance. :)

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Anyone have any idea what kinds of questions they ask at interviews? I figure be familiar with nuancies of the department and the research of any professor you meet with as well as any ultimate plans you have for what you want to do with your career. Besides that not sure what to prepare.

I was asked to derive the hamiltonian for a polariton on the fly last year. Then the professor asked me do describe, in detail, the particulars of an experiment he performed in 1979, as related though a publication in a small Czechoslovakian chemical physics journal.

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I was asked to derive the hamiltonian for a polariton on the fly last year. Then the professor asked me do describe, in detail, the particulars of an experiment he performed in 1979, as related though a publication in a small Czechoslovakian chemical physics journal.

I hope you are joking, but I can't quite be sure, lol.

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