Shine the Light

Just received rejection from MIT.

So excited to have been offered admission to Carnegie Mellon University!!!

I have applied to the organic division and polymer chemistry at CMU. But I'm curious to hear from them back soon

Has anyone heard back from, or even applied to, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemistry?

Thanks guys for your precious response. About the nature of our collaboration, my work was in the area of Chemistry and we indeed found and established new application areas for their developed systems. It was like merging two areas by expanding the utilization of their materials into new chemical reactions. As a result, we did some back-and-forth and discussions during the work. So, as you put, I think it would be good for me to get a letter of recommendation from him focusing on the output of our work. Thank you again for your commentary.

Thanks for your response. So you're saying that even mentioning the output of our collaboration would be helpful without personally knowing about my research skills? If so, I'd be able to strengthen my application.

Hi there, I had a collaboration with a well-known professor during my MS research work but it was a long-distance one and I did not attend or work in his lab personally. It was more like collaborating in an interdisciplinary manner conducting some initial parts of the work there in their lab and continuing the rest of the work in our lab. We made two papers together and I was the first-author in both papers. So, I was meaning to ask about the validity and possible impact of getting a strong letter of recommendation, if any, from him considering the nature of our collaboration. Would it help me in my application or it may be considered as less impactful due to our long-distance collaboration? Do you guys think that I should get a letter of recommendation from that professor or I'd better request only from my direct advisers? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Thanks aks42, Just sent you a PM.

Hi there, I'm going to apply to a PhD program in Chemistry this semester. I was wondering if anyone could help me review my Statement of Purpose (SOP). I'd greatly appreciate any comments and advice. If appropriate, I'd rather send it through personal message or email than posting it here. Looking forward to hearing from you... Thanks