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GA Tech is notorious for sending their acceptances late. They send out acceptances until late March.

Rejection from UChicago. Went to check if there was any update on my application status and found out there was one. I guess I'll be going to UT Austin for sure..

Indeed lots are happening.....just not for me (cry)

Congrats! I hope I hear soon from other schools too.. Looks like a lot of early Berkeley acceptances are from Organic Chemistry Program.

I've applied for physical chemistry department and got an unofficial acceptance today as well.

There are a lot of experimental chemists that use theory to start their projects (Ab Initio calculations). One of my research adviser used Gaussian and Cfour to compute the geometries, harmonic frequencies, dipole moments, etc. before beginning his work on IR laser spectroscopy. However, my theoretical chemistry research adviser told me that isn't really a "theoretical chemistry." He told me it's more of a computational chemistry combined with experimental. I was looking for professors that combine both theoretical and experimental chemistry as well and my adviser to me to look for chemistry programs that have large physical chemistry department. Those include "big schools" such as MIT, UC Berkeley, UChicago, Ohio State, etc. He also suggested schools with prestige theoretical chemistry program, but not so much of experimental, such as University of Florida or University of Georgia.

From what I've heard, LORs are evaluated after applicants have been "filtered" with the school's criterion for GPA and GRE scores. GPA and GRE scores might not be the most crucial part of the application but are important enough to keep people out.

So I emailed the admission's office and checked if these problems matter. For GRE scores, the administrator told me that this is not a problem and the admission's office will match the score to application whenever they arrive. For LOR, she told me LORs are accepted after the deadline. I'm not sure if that would put me at disadvantage though. I talked to my professor again and reminded him that the LOR needs to be submitted, but he told me not to worry too much about it, and he would call the admission's office if he needs to take any actions. I guess that's better than what Whisky said, but it's giving me a hard time.. I really should have expected it because he has a history of submitting grades after the grade deadline..

Does anyone know what happens if LOR and/or GRE scores are not received by the school's deadline? I've got all my part done, but one of my professors still has not submitted his letter yet. As for GRE, I requested the score to be sent last week, but I was afraid schools won't get them on time.

I'm pretty disappointed with my score.. I got 720 with 54%

Question: For the UC Berkeley Application, what is the format for writing the research summary? Should it be like a bullet point format? or should it be in paragraphs?

I have a question about calculating major GPA. So if you had to retake the course and have two grades for one class, should I include both in calculating major GPA? I know some schools have a policy that would remove the course with lower gpa from your record and replace it with the better one, but the school I attend actually keeps both on the transcript. Also, are there any courses I should include in calculating major GPA that is not a chemistry course? (i.e. Physics, Calc 3, Diff eq.)