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OMG, yes to the third one. I should add: 1. "This kid is applying to inorganic chemistry and all of his research experience is Biochemistry and Genetics? He must be crazy." 2. "OK, good GRE scores but this other international student has a 99% GRE subject test, and a 170 in Quant" 3. "Oh look, no publications." *TOSS application* 4. And lastly: "Well, that was an easy $100!"

"Pfff. As if. *rolls eyes* NEXT!"

why not give it a shot? Has the application deadline passed already?

It depends on how different the field is from your undergrad. I am a biochem major in undergrad and I applied for a PhD in Inorganic chemistry (well, bio-inorganic). Some professors told me that my background is very biological while others liked it. It's all a matter of explaining it properly in your SOP.

I am reviving this thread. anyone out there?

LOL, that was a waste of time. and money. especially money.

Me too. Had I known that decisions would be early, I could've applied there. sigh. Oh well.

What I did was (though it is a little time consuming) I grouped the questions into broad topics such as education, science, art, government, politics, etc. and brainstormed some ideas. It also helped that I read some sample essays to have some ideas on what to write. Now take this with a grain of salt since I didn't really score high on the AW part. I think my argument essay pulled up my total score.

Received a thick mail from Syracuse today. My heart was throbbing very fast but I was confused because I did not apply there. When I opened it, it was a Department brochure and an introduction letter. Then I remembered that I submitted to them some pre-application details online. (sigh) I thought that was unnecessary. They could've just e-mailed me. Oh well, back to waiting...

The 1995 subject test is also available online aside from the 2000 and 2006 test. I posted the link here: I tried all the review books. REA was too outdated, with very, very easy questions. The Princeton review book sample test is quite similar to the GRE sample tests.

Good for you both! I had notifications from academia.edu in October/November when I started e-mailing POIs.

^ I tried this and they did not believe me, LOL. I think the on-line recommendation system shows the deadline.

I was on the same boat with you guys. I sent the scores to the universities twice. But I had no problem with it since they were for free. Had they told us earlier, I could've sent the first score reports (General test only) to those not requiring the subject test.

No. It's not like it would change anything. Besides, I think it would make me cringe just reading that letter and I've had enough of that when I wrote my SOP. LOL.

Asian? LOL

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I'm now glued to my computer to check my e-mails. I have little heart attacks whenever there's a new message, but then when I realize it's not grad school related I get back to obsessing again. Not good, I know.

once I've submitted my SOP, I never looked back. It's not like I can do anything to change the typos.

Avoid stressing yourself out and just apply next year. Some schools have a strict rule when it comes to deadlines and you don't want to waste the 50-100$ app. fee and all your efforts in an application that can be possibly rejected because it is incomplete.

I am going to accept the possibility that I won't hear anything this week. I might as well enjoy this week instead of obsessively refreshing the e-mail and results page (btw, congrats on the USC Chem admit, unknown person! )

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by 15%.

I know University of Florida Chemistry has a rolling admissions seeing as their deadline is not until January 1. Which other schools has one? (please include the department name)