IanTheChemist

I'm a junior at MIT majoring in chemistry with significant academic and research focus on organic catalysis. I work for a prominent organic chemist (he's got some named reactions, if that gives any hints) at MIT, and I will have two published papers by the end of this semester (second author on both, one potentially in Science, the other in JACS). GRE: To be taken, V/Q 160/168 on practice exam. Chem: 880 on practice. (Obviously not hardset, but just to give an idea). GPA: 3.8 currently, having received a B in quantum chemistry, thermo, and advanced physical organic chemistry, with the rest of my grades being A's. Ideally I'd like to work for Grubbs at Caltech, Jacobsen at Harvard, or MacMillan at Princeton. Obviously these are all extremely competitive schools, and definitely not safeties. I don't know where I could apply that would give me a reasonable chance of getting in at all, but I hope to get some advice about that from some more experienced chemists here. Thanks and if you have more questions let me know.