Synorg-> thanks again for your insight. I really find your advice to be very helpful. I've been spending a couple of hours every night looking for a university that conducts research that I find would be a good fit for me. However, the university conducting research that I am interested in is at Harvard, Yale, and Northwestern so far. I've been going through the list of schools I read about though the ACS, however, I am having difficulty finding a mid tier university that makes the news. I plan on continuing my search everyday until I find at least 5 more universities conducting research that best fits me and my career goal.
I understand that every organic chemistry program will have a faculty conducting research in pharma. However, I am surprised at having such a high attrition rate for finding a faculty conducting in a chemistry based pharma research(rather than the bio based ones).
So far I looked at UIC, UCLA, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, University of Notre dame, University of NC C Hill, Scripps, UIUC, Northwestern, Yale, University of Chicago and maybe a few more (I don't have the list with me)
I plan on going through some of your list through the week. Thanks again for your list because I only had about 5 more school to look into on my own.