bigredtootasty

Coming from Cornell undergrad, I have nothing but excellent things to say about Cornell PhD's, particularly for bioinorganic chemistry

Gotcha, and thanks!

Has anyone not yet heard back from CalTech? I'm wondering if this is the world's longest rejection, or if there's some secret waitlist that I'm not aware of but a part of(?)

I called the graduate admissions office of UIUC chemistry, and was told more or less to be patient. The number of applications this year for the chemistry PhD program is upwards of 500, so they're taking a lot of time to go through them all. It's not really much tangible help lol but I hope this can allay some worries.

Has anyone who applied to MIT for inorganic chemistry heard back yet? I haven't heard yet, but I can only assume their silence to be a denial. To all others waiting for other schools, best of luck!

Yeah, you're right. And when you say visitation days: you mean for all schools, even those that I was not invited to?

Hi y'all, wondering if I could get some perspective on this lil dilemma I'm facing: I've heard from Texas A&M, Purdue, and UC Santa Cruz for inorganic/bioinorganic chemistry and I'm still waiting to hear anything from Columbia, MIT, Caltech, UC Berkeley, & Illinois. My pipe dream is either Columbia (where a prof who was foundational to my field has his lab) or Berkeley (my old PI went there for undergrad and they do crazy inorganic chemistry), but I'm being recruited quite strongly by A&M. I'm wondering since I haven't heard from these schools if this portends bad news, and I should just pull the trigger on A&M now. I ~think~ that I have a strong application and folks from my undergrad with nearly identical apps got acceptances from these schools, so perhaps there's a chance. But I'm curious if y'all think waiting for these other schools is a lost cause. Thanks in advance!

Heard back from Purdue for bioinorganic/analytical on the 14th. I was hoping that this was going to be the opening of the floodgates but every place seems to be dragging its feet - losing my mind!

Has anyone heard anything regarding Columbia? It's my number 1 and their silence is killing me

I heard from TAMU on Dec. 11th, but friends of mine have heard from Berkeley, NW, & Wisconsin-Madison recently. I hope that bodes well for everyone, but the wait is killing me!