Herbert West

I got an acceptance call from an Irvine PI yesterday, and the email came this morning. I'm organic. Good luck!

Thank you!!

Does anyone know when visit dates for Berkeley, MIT, and Stanford are? I haven't been accepted at these schools yet, but I'm still a bit hopeful and am trying to be careful to not schedule overlapping school visits.

I sent mine on November 23rd and got my acceptance email around January 3rd. I'm doing organic.

Where did you see your application status for UNC? I can't seem to find it.

My bad! I haven't been on in a while so I didn't see this til now. Mine was completed November 23rd. Hope everyone's research and grad school results are going they way they would like.

Mine came from the committee

Dibenzofulvene and sk8er Determinant, that could be the date they received all of the files needed for your application? (Letters, transcripts, test scores, and the like)

Not immediately. The email came first on 1/3 at 10 am. Then my.wisc showed the same message the next day at 2 pm. Good luck!

Thank you!! Good luck with your applications!

Thanks dibenzofulvene! I would probably tell the schools you're most interested in that you got a publication. It definitely shouldn't hurt to do that. It's really useful because it shows your prowess as a researcher.

I just got an email containing visit weekend info from UW-Madison that said I was recommended for admittance! Hope everyone's doing well!

Thank you! Good luck! We're rooting for you.

Congrats! When did you get your acceptance, and have they mentioned visiting weekends?

Mine gave an error message when I tried to access the UW-Madison site from my phone, but I was able to check the Grad Application Status page from a desktop just fine.

I submitted November 15th. Good luck, everyone!

I just got accepted into UIUC for organic synthesis via email!

Undergrad Institution: Illinois State UniversityMajor(s): ChemistryMinor(s): NoneGPA in Major: 4.00Overall GPA: 4.00Position in Class: TopType of Student: Domestic maleGRE Scores (revised):Q: 162 (90th)V: 161 (79th)W: 5.0 (93rd)Chem GRE: 730/60thResearch Experience: 2 years in an organic synthesis lab. Presented the research at an American Chemical Society national meeting and have submitted an abstract for the next one on a new project. Also worked in a biochem lab (first semester sophomore year) and a p chem lab (2nd semester freshman year) for a semester each as well as a summer in the p chem lab. The p chem PI left our department, so I moved around a bit and fell in love with orgo as a sophomore which is why I moved from the biochem lab. Awards/Honors/Recognitions: · Dean’s List Fall 2013, Spring and Fall 2014, Spring and Fall 2015, Spring 2016 Two highest scholarships an undergrad can receive at my university (Presidential and Bone) Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention 2015 Sol Shulman Department of Chemistry Scholarship Honors Program Student Pertinent Activities or Jobs: 2 semesters Gen Chem II lab TA 1 semester Organic I lab TA Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Will have taken the entire organic master's course list at my university at the time of application. Courses include Heterocycles, Structural Determination, Reaction Mechanisms (physical organic chemistry), and Organic Synthesis. Special Bonus Points: -Any Other Info That Shows Up On Your App and Might Matter: I have three solid letters of recommendation and have been incredibly active with my university's ACS chemistry club (treasurer sophomore year, president junior year, bookstore manager--we sell all of the lab manuals for chemistry courses--senior year). Lots of experience in chemistry outreach with my student chapter and the ACS. Applying to Where: UC-Berkeley Cal Tech MIT University of Illinois-UC Indiana University UW-Madision UC-Irvine Stanford University of Michigan UC-Davis I would really appreciate any feedback from current grad students because I am a bit worried that my application is not quite competitive enough for the institutions to which I am applying. Thank you!

Hello! I will be applying to graduate schools for the fall 2017 semester. I am interested most in UC Berkeley, University of Illinois, MIT, CIT, Ann Arbor, Indiana University, and Ohio State, where I would like to work in an organic lab. I have gone through grad schools and chosen schools where there are about three professors with whom I would like to work. I am taking the GRE tomorrow and have been scoring 159-165/160-169 V/Q on practice tests, have a 4.0 GPA at a state university in Illinois (not U of I), did half a year of research in a physical chemistry lab, a semester of research in a biochem lab, and will have worked in an organic lab for over two years when I graduate in 2017. I do not have a publication in the works yet, but I presented a poster at the ACS meeting in San Diego on the organic work. I have solid LORs from the organic, biochem, and physical chem professors as well as from several other faculty members at my university. I have taken grad level courses in heterocycles, organic synthesis, physical organic chemistry, and structural determination, and I have been an undergraduate TA for a year and will probably be one again next year. Is my list of schools too overly ambitious for my profile? Thank you in advance!