Synthetic Happiness

Just got the Stanford acceptance vis e-mail!

Just called Stanford. They said a majority of acceptances have not yet been sent out and they are still reviewing applications. However, they said they would all be out by Feb 5th.

Does anyone know if Stanford has sent out the bulk of invitations yet?

JUST RECEIVED A CALL FROM SARAH RESIMAN SAYING I'VE BEEN ADMITTED TO CALTECH!!

Accepted to Berkeley today through e-mail and a pending phone call from my POI!

Congrats! What were your stats?

Oh nice! Yeah, I know that some Chen bio people heard back but no one I know from organic has yet.

Got into Yale on the 22nd!! Organic chemistry!! Has anyone heard from Stanford or Berkeley for organic yet?

Hi everyone, I received a 158 on my verbal and 160 on my quantitative section. I'm applying for organic chemistry programs in mainly top schools such as Cal, Stanford, Caltech, Scripps, and I was wondering if that score was too low to even be considered despite other factors. I didn't study for the GRE all that much, just because people in my lab have told me it doesn't really matter; but, after reading all the posts on here, I'm a bit worried. I currently attend UC Irvine and have a 3.904 overall GPA, 3.987 Major GPA. I've been doing research in a pretty well known research group since Jan 2013, but unfortunately as a synthetic chemist, publications are hard to come by. This past summer, I did a paid summer internship at Isis Pharmaceuticals in the Medicinal Chemistry Department and am getting published; however, I don't think it will be out in time for application deadlines. Since starting research, I've received 3 fellowships (1 is an Allergan Fellowship, 2 are from the school) and 1 grant during my first summer of doing research. I've given a total of 5 presentations (Some powerpoint, some poster) and I was also elected Phi Beta Kappa my junior year. I'm also involved in Outreach. I plan on pursuing synthetic organic chemistry in grad school and I'm most interested in working for Justin Du Bois, Noah Burns, Sarah Reisman at Stanford and Caltech. I guess what I'm really asking is, whether my GRE scores would affect my chances, and what you guys think my chances really are?