Hi! I am currently a senior (domestic applicant) at ucla and am planning on applying for an interdisciplinary/analytical chem Ph.D. program for Fall 2016. My stats are as follows: 3.45 overall GPA and 3.4 major GPA. The greatest detriment to my GPA has been organic chemistry, in which I have never gotten above a B in any of my 6 organic classes so far. I am going to try to explain that organic chemistry is definitely not my forte nor what I want to focus on in grad school, so hopefully they overlook my GPA a bit. GRE 170 quant 163 verbal (98th and 93rd percentile). Estimating around 60-75th percentile Chem GRE score. ~3 years research experience in one lab; 2 middle author papers will most likely be published by graduation (one probably in a impact factor >8 journal) but neither will be published by the time i submit my application, and 1.5 years of experience in another lab concurrently. In both labs I worked mostly on analytical instrumentation with biological applications. Most likely three very strong rec letters. I am just wondering that, based on my stats, what kind of schools should I look at as "safeties" and whether I should bother applying to multiple top 10 schools, or focus more on lower ranked schools? Location doesn't matter to me as long as it's in the US.