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Ah, thanks. Apparently I'm still under review.

Rejected by Stanford today, no word from MIT (Applied CSE course 10, don't know if this is reviewed by chemE faculty at the same time though). I expect a lot of good news for everyone in the coming few weeks! Good luck to all you guys, even if you may not need it Got GTech for CSE, which is awesome. Not to be rejected by all schools is a relief too.

Do rejections get e-mailed typically? Or do they expect you to look at the status on their website? I haven't heard back from anywhere, I'm pretty okay with that, looking at the rejections rolling out. lol

Grats!! Reading this post made me check my statuses. No word so far. That's because I was apparently missing some stuff for some schools including one that a reference just completely missed. FML, lol Q: Does CMU ChemE require a paper/official transcript? Did I misread or skip something? I uploaded my unofficial (official scanned) transcript. Remaining fairly optimistic, though I have industry offers if this falls through...

I just discovered I was missing a transcript for one app - still don't know if I need one - and that one of my references forgot to submit for one of my apps when I could've sworn he did... i.e. "application submitted" != "application complete". Whatttt Big unpleasant surprises

Got a followup email with an apology followed by the rejection copy pasted, best of luck to the rest.

I got an email saying I didn't get selected, But it started with "Dear Nina," ... That's not my name.

If that 3.77/4.00 is a converted GPA, it goes to either a (high?) 2-1 or a first. I'd say you have a shot (as in not immediately DQed by stats). Good luck is all anyone can say at this point

I'm geniuinely curious, if people getting this anxious already, were they normally the anxious type? Do they score high on neurotic personality traits? How does this compare to undergrad admissions? Do you think this will be a recurring issue during grad school? Everyone being nervous makes me want to be nervous too... >><<

A startup helps keep you busy... ><

It's still down. Here's a useful site for you all I don't think it has anything to do with applyYourself, the entire gsas site is dead right now, though maybe that was the problem before, I can't say. It's harvard grad school, the entire world is applying the day before! Maybe I'm being a bit extravagant... lol http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/apply EDIT: From Reddit /gradadmissions, here's a link directly to the applyYourself login for Harvard graduate apps! https://app.applyyourself.com/AYApplicantLogin/fl_ApplicantConnectLogin.asp?id=hgsas

Yeah. It is a small textbox already, and I don't have more than two sentences on the pre-college stuff. (edit: combined) Thanks!

Typically for job apps and even grad school apps, I wouldn't mention things before high school, everyone has told me that. I've encountered a textbox that simply states: I have some internship experience for a university and a Fortune 100 company where I did work that is relevant to the lab I want to work for... Should I include it? I do have more items from my undergrad but I am wondering if listing high school internships, regardless of relevance would be detrimental to my application. Have I answered my own question?

Turned mine in last week but 2/3 recs, just checked. I reminded him a few times too

Don't see how UD is that different from UCSB, it's ranked top11 in chem eng.. Is there a big selectivity difference between the two? On topic, most schools at the top of your list won't consider people under a 3.8,basically the schools that above post said No' s for. But why not try if cost isn't a factor....

Would there be a possibility that you could convert your job offer into a summer internship? That's what I plan to do if I get an offer from companies in the coming weeks. It's not research but if it's what you want to do, well... Sounds good by me.

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Good advice from both sides - thanks all. And about the whole debate, I hope I didn't construe that I'd be able to finish it in a year - I might consider getting a subproblem down though... Modularity!

Above: Your school doesn't lock you in. Try to use that school's resources or unique advantages in your research statement though. Ethics question: If it's possible for me to pursue my proposed research plan in my final semester of undergrad, is this ethical for me to still use this research plan in the GRFP application? I realize that this is just used as proof that I can do research but I'm curious now. And I could very well carry this research out next semester, I spent time on it and now I have a plan that I can carry out... Why not?

I'd agree with a dearth of a jobs in the OSC/OPV industry, everything I hear about those are in academia. OLEDs, maybe, I guess you're also kind of limited in companies that do OLED R&D. I know a prof who does lucrative OLED research with Samsung/LG, for obvious reasons; OLEDs power a good fraction of smartphones, they'll power larger screens as costs are driven down + virtual reality setups. But i can't think of any other companies off the top of my head who'd be interested. Other display companies, really. phillips, sony... I suppose $3B by 2015 isn't "that" big of a market cap for OLEDs compared to the $400B of S&P 500 in biotech now, past the fact that biotech is really a huge encompassing field x_x (src: marketwatch)

CMU is expensive but their MS CS can be done in 1 year.

This is a fairly quick read, so no super-detailed analysis given. I'd refrain from using contractions (wouldn't --> would not, can't --> cannot) as they are less formal methods of speech. Maybe not a big deal, but it's something to consider. Length is correlated to higher scores; while your points may be solid the essay is concise (lol, at any other time, I'd commend you for this trait). Expand a bit on your points; maybe provide more counterexamples. In your conclusion, you simply restate your thesis; do an overview of what evidence the prompt needs to make an informed decision. If I had to give a score, it'd be between a 4 and a 5, inclusive. (essay is 356 words; shoot for around 500? I'm sure there's enough content to make it happen.) Trivia: The ETS GRE writing example on their website for a 6 has >560 words, a 5 has ~500 words, and a 4 has 260 words. Your points aren't wrong and your points are comprehensible and clear enough, so it's at least a 4.5 in my opinion. I've bolded small errors with my offered corrections, which perhaps should be taken with a grain of salt as with anything on the internet

Better that you're starting with a lot than not having enough, though. Right? >< (ahhhhhh)

Masters or PhD? For the PhD it should be about what the faculty do research on before what the name of the school is. Masters: I guess rank can matter more? If you plan on not doing research - though the masters thesis is common so it could still depend heavily on what sub branch of che you want to do work in. Financial aid for masters program is much rarer than for PhD programs. Ivy league: Harvard doesnt even have a "che" program you know. Cornell, upenn, princeton are undoubtedly strong players in several che branches though. (Not the exhaustive list)