chaospaladin

It is not worth it. Find another alternative.

Oh I see, but what reason would the Dean of Graduate Studies or the Graduate Division have for rescinding a PhD admission offer (other than the GPA requirement)? Also to the OP, I didn't follow this thread from the beginning to the end, but what school and department did you get your admission offer rescinded from? When were you offered admission (the date and month) and when was your admission offer rescinded (the date and month)? EDIT: Wait, nevermind. I just read the OP. He got accepted to UCR on 2-7 or so and got rescinded on 2-23 (two weeks later after the initial offer of admission). EDIT 2: Does UCR even mention anywhere on their Graduate School Division website that they have a strict 3.00 GPA cut off? I checked their PhD Chemistry Graduate School web page and it seems like the Chemistry PhD Department Admissions Committee doesn't have a strict 3.00 GPA cut off either. In my Chemistry thread, I asked Eigen, UnlikelyGrad, and Waddle on PhD Chemistry programs with certain mechanistic aspects and Waddle said he found out that PhD in Chemistry at UCR didn't have a 3.00 GPA cut off. So it looks like even Waddle got confused and gave me incorrect information. I'm not saying this is Waddle's fault or anything since the burden is on me to verify the information myself. But I'm just pointing this out. Also I'm not calling out Waddle, UnlikelyGrad, Eigen or anyone. I'm just mentioning their names since those three are by far the most helpful members on Grad Cafe (especially in the Chemistry sub-forum). Thank you Waddle, UnlikelyGrad, and Eigen for all of your help so far.

What two schools did you get accepted into?

Just be honest and straight up saying you wanted to know why you were rejected. Honestly, I don't even see how a rejected applicant would even feel proud or pompous considering they got rejected.

I don't think it is rude or awkward to ask this question, and I know of some PhD programs that encourage rejected applicants to ask the committee why they got rejected and what areas they could improve on. Reapplying to programs you got rejected shows that you have determination.

Also what is the school and program you are attending in USA?

What 2 other schools are you waiting to hear from? Ask OSU and UCI if they gave domestic applicants full funding for PhD in EE. Is it true that they gave domestic applicants full funding and no funding for you or they gave no funding for everyone?

SIPA means School of International Public Affairs, right?

Usually FAFSA is only filled out by students who are in community colleges or are undergraduate students at 4 year colleges. PhD students in math, science, and engineering generally do not fill out the FAFSA since they are already funded. There are some cases where graduate students should fill out FAFSA just in case though like those who are in unfunded programs. Actually now that I thought about it, I think all graduate students should fill out FAFSA anyways even those who are in PhD math, science, and engineering programs since FAFSA is free and there is nothing to lose. So fill out the FAFSA.

Are you in a MS or a PhD Program and what field are you in? I know PhD Chemistry at ASU will support you financially though.

How many more schools do you still need to hear admission decisions from? Call the schools you got accepted into tomorrow to see if there will be funding opportunities. Did you apply for any fellowships? I know that most fellowships are for USA applicants only though.

How should I go about in tracing it back to a professor or group? How should I go about in finding research that interests me? Are you trying to say I should start out from reading from a scientific journal of like a search engine of Chemistry articles, papers, posters, and publications, etc. and then find out who the journal article, paper, poster, or publication is written by and then look up the affiliation of the authors and trace it back to their university like that? Thanks.

I plan to apply to PhD Programs straight off from a B.S. without going through a M.S. too.

Does this mean that when you apply to let's say a PhD Chemistry Program, and the Chemistry department accepts you, the Graduate School Division still has the power to reject you if they see you missing like let's say a GPA requirement? Does "administration" mean "Graduate Division" in this case?

I got accepted to an undergraduate research summer program here. Is a bike needed or necessary on campus for U of Rochester?

I got accepted to an undergraduate research program for the summer. Is a bike needed, required, or recommended here for University of Arizona?

I may be heading to University of Tennessee, Knoxville for an undergraduate research program soon. Is there a place on campus or near campus where you can get your bike fixed, pump your bike, etc.?

But you did say that if you were to get a teaching assistantship and more than 1 fellowship, then you would be forced to not receive money from your teaching assistantship in full and would be forced to give up all but 1 fellowship since being supported on more than 1 fellowship is generally not allowed and your combined money from both teaching assistantship and fellowship cannot exceed 125% of the threshold. That's what I meant by cost of attendance so to speak. EDIT: Let me clarify myself. I know for a fact stacked fellowships are not allowed. But let's say my TA stipend is $25,000 and I receive a fellowship of $15,000, would I get $40,000 combined, or is their a limit on the amount of money I can receive per year? I know each program probably has their own policy as what the limit is but what is the general consensus regarding combining your TA stipend with your fellowship stipend?

How about if I send you a new PM asking you if you remember any PhD programs you applied to that does not have a GPA 3.00 cut off and an application fee waiver regardless of student's family's income? I know in the previous PM I sent you, I asked you this question + two more personal questions I believe so just disregard that one. Also I have been research programs on my own and answering as many questions on my own as I can. There's probably over 200 PhD Chemistry programs in the US and I've only looked at 50 of them online so far. I'm not asking anyone to do "research" on Chemistry PhD Programs for me. I'm just asking people what schools they applied to that they remembered off the top of their head that had an application fee waiver regardless of income and didn't have a 3.00 GPA cut off. Yes, I know I have asked some people questions that could have easily been found online in the past and I pretty much stopped doing that after Waddle told me not to, but expecting an applicant to look at over 200 PhD Chemistry Programs in detail and analyze every page on their web site is a bit much. Don't you think? I'm not asking people to research on over 200 programs for me, just to give me input on stuff they remembered on certain programs when they applied.

What exactly is the fellowship money used for? Is it used to fund your research project or can it be used for anything? Let's say if the total amount of fellowship money awarded exceeds the cost of attendance of a school and someone gets extra fellowship money afterwards, are they allowed to use the extra money to let say pay off their undergraduate student loan debt or something? EDIT: Just like how in undergraduate education how your total financial aid package cannot exceed the total cost of attendance, do graduate schools have this policy with fellowships and teaching assistantships? I keep on hearing how some programs can't let you exceed 100% of the cost of attendance while some programs offer a "grace threshold" of 110% of the cost of attendance and 125% of the cost of attendance.

What PhD are you getting and what school do you go to?

Does internal funding refer to like Research Assistantship and Teaching Assistantship and external funding refer to like NSF and Hertz?

I will be applying in Fall 2011 when I'm 21 years old and I will be 22 years old if I get at accepted to at least 1 PhD Chemistry Program in Fall 2012.

I spent $0 on my undergraduate applications due to fee waivers, but for graduate school applications, there are some programs that will not give me a fee waiver. I'm applying in Fall 2011 for PhD Chemistry. How much money did you spend on graduate school applications?

Don't you mean "feeling"?