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Hey i went to a cuny college for undergrad and I'm quite familiar with the chemistry professors at Brooklyn college. From what i know, youll be doing your rotations in the professors labs, which will be in their home campuses. Unfortunately some CUNY campuses are bit difficult to get to, so just a heads up for lab rotations and taking classes (if they're being taught at home campuses, not at the graduate center building). From what i know is that many of the instruments in the schools are shared among the department in the school and also campuses as well.

@chemiegrad Chem GRE isn't a huge factor, but it's probably used as a tie-breaker or something. If I may be honest, I don't know how much did my Chem GRE weigh on my application hahaha. Anyway, I know Harvard's Department of Chemistry has the average general and Chem GRE scores, and GPAs for the 2016 incoming students so I suppose that's something to refer to. I've already applied and am leaving the overpriced island in August :-)

@chem1995 my cGPA was 3.5, my major GPA was 3.89. my gen gre scores were 160 v/163 q/4.5 a, and my chem gre score was 60th percentile. 3 publications, bunch of presentations and 3 years of research experience. hm i thought everyone would've gotten their results by now... your duke onelink wasn't updated still?

Have you taken your Chem GRE? It's required for Harvard.

My gut feeling is the following. I'd honestly say that you should rule out the research fellow from the consideration. What I've seen is that letters from folks who have a Ph.D. will carry more weight than those who don't. I'd do two professors you've done research with, and one professor who taught you.

Hi all, So I've basically heard back from all the schools I wanted to hear back from, and I've decided to accept Duke's offer. If anyone's attending Duke for Ph.D. in Chemistry, how is the department, and what's the department culture like (i.e. are there supergroup meetings, literature club, and any other clubs and meetings geared towards chemistry students)? And how is living in Durham for you, personally? I've been hearing great things about Duke as a graduate school, and I'd really like to get more unadulterated views on the school and the department. (Also if you've been accepted to Duke, is anyone going to be at the Chemistry visiting weekend on March 3rd to 4th? I'll be there!)

i got an offer from duke last monday (jan 30th.) my guess is that duke hasn't finished sending out offers yet. best of luck!

oh damn! i submitted mine on the 31st (i applied for organic chem). getting rly nervous now but like damn congrats again! EDIT: ok I'm so stupid I sent mine on the 30th idk why I thought November 31st existed....

whoa congrats on your acceptance to princeton!!! may i ask which division you applied for, and when you submit your application?

oh i haven't either, but it's totally my fault for sending it on the due date (i needed some time to save the money i need for sending the dec 15th apps). truthfully, i'm very anxious about it, as well as for other schools lol

still waiting (i applied for organic as well.) i sent my app on the 15th so I wouldn't be surprised if my app is the last batch of the apps to be looked at.

@Dibenzofulvene @meteora @L543 @jeromass hi all! so I just checked my wisc app and now, I no longer have "available for recommendation". Instead, I have Chemistry PHD FALL 2017-2018 "Your application has been received and will be reviewed by your program. Please refer to this page for updates." with all the checklist. That's my update on it.

whoaaaa congrats @Dibenzofulvene on ya acceptance!! so yeah my wisc portal grad application app is back to "normal" with bunch of numbers-available for recommendation- pending review. very nervous to see what the result will be!

hey @Dibenzofulvene! I just checked my wisc account and it says that my Grad Application Status page is unavailable. Did you perhaps get the same message as well?

Mine says 12/16 which is quite odd because I definitely submitted on the 15th...I suppose that's when they got my application? Hm... Would definitely love to know what that means