dalek11

I just got accepted to Rice, I submitted all my materials on the 20th and heard back from them the 27th. Pretty excited, now I can finally relax.

Hi, Long time lurker first time poster here. I'm currently a rising senior. I go to a pretty good school in Baltimore, MD and I'm double majoring in chemical engineering and chemistry with a minor in math. I started out as a ChemE major but started taking chemistry classes because I thought they were interesting and now I would like to continue studying chemistry in graduate school. For the past 2.5 years I've worked in a virology lab at my university's medical school, but its mostly molecular biology and nothing to do with chemistry. I have my name on one publication as 2nd author and maybe one more by the time I would apply to graduate schools if I'm lucky. As of right now my GPA is a 3.4 (3.65 in chemistry) and I scored a 910 on the chemistry GRE, I have yet to take the normal GRE. I guess it seems kind of backwards but I took the chemistry GRE asap so the stuff was still fresh on my mind. Also, I'd like to focus on organic/bio-organic chemistry in graduate school and I think I can get good recommendations from my professors. Anyways, my plan was to apply to 6-7 PhD programs, all of which I would love to attend, and also apply to MS programs at other schools. So if I get admitted to any of the PhD programs I would go there and if I didn't get admitted anywhere hopefully I would have one of the MS programs to fall back on and focus for a year and re-evaluate what I want to do while getting an MS to boot. And if i didn't get accepted to any programs at all I would look for a lab tech position somewhere. Maybe I'm being to pessimistic about the whole process but I just want to give myself as many options as possible. Does this seem like a good plan?