liveoak
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Ctrl Shift J will bring up that tab as well.
This worked. Same error message that the username or password is incorrect. Thanks!
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how do you pull up the bookmarks toolbar? i have windows 7... sorry, not the most computer savvy person
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FYI to Northwestern applicants who haven't heard anything yet - I just checked my application status on the website and there was a link to a decision finally (wasn't there yesterday). Rejection, but still nice to get a definitive decision
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not sure yet actually. im going to plan all my trips out in the next few days so i'll let you know. are you going to chicago? if so, when?
Haha well I'm going this weekend so I guess I won't meet you there
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I'm an undergrad at UT Austin and I know the prof who is in charge of grad admissions. I've talked with him about the admissions process and the impression he gave me was he takes his time with deciding. I would bet he's not done sending out offers.
pzh, when are you visiting chicago?
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Hopefully I will have the time to check out the area the day/night before leaving, since most of the schools seem to leave the time slot open.
Anyone from Austin TX? How is the weather there? I've never been to Texas and next visiting weekend will be my first. Should I expect anything?
I lived in Austin for 6 years and it's awesome. Fairly mild winters (although I think they're cold), and very hot summers (~70 straight days over 100 last summer), but I don't mind too much. What field are you looking at?
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I hope somebody answers this:
To the people who were accepted to UChicago via e-mail, was it an e-mail from the department or from a POI? This is my top-choice school and the wait is nerve-wracking. D:
I heard back via phone call from a professor that I had contacted in the fall. I then received the official letter from the department via postal service. If you decide to inquire about your application, a good contact may be Melinda Moore - mmoore@uchicago.edu. She answered very promptly when I emailed to make sure all of my supplemental materials had been received. Best of luck!
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I need an American degree to be able to work in the States, where my girlfriend is. That's why I wanted anyway to do it.
It's not a problem of money. I just wanted to figure out if it's possible to switch program and when it's the best time to do that.
Ah, okay. I guess this would depend on whether the school you want to attend accepts students on a "master's-only" type track. At the school where I did undergrad, you would just complete a master's degree and leave if you didn't pass your PhD qualifying exams. If the school allows you to enter with the intention of only pursuing a master's, I guess you could tell them now (not sure, though). Otherwise, I'd wait til later I think.
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I have kind of the same problem. I'm an Italian student. Right after I finished my BS in Italy I applied for a PhD in the states. I recently figured out that for personal problems I can't be there for all the duration of a PhD. Now I know I was accepted for a PhD program and I want to switch in a MS.
Can I switch into a MS from PhD? And when is the best timing for doing it? Would they refuse my admission if I ask them now, before my official admission, to switch?
P.S. I'm only 23 so maybe I can do my PhD later in my life. Is it possible? Is it so bad to not do a PhD at my age?
If you haven't even started your program yet, I would say don't bother starting now. If you aren't ready to pursue a PhD right now, just take a job in industry until you're ready to go back to school for a PhD. Getting a master's now and PhD later would just waste the time (and income you could be earning) while you earn a master's degree, since a master's won't get you a more prestigious or better paying job than a master's. If you went through with just a master's degree now, you'd be losing money in the long run.
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I currently work in industry with a bachelor's degree and can say that if all you wanted was a master's, you would have been better off not wasting your time on it. A PhD is a much better value than a master's in industry. Yes, a PhD puts you in a higher pay bracket, but a PhD will pay you back a lot better and faster than a master's degree. If it's only 3 more years, I'd stick it out and not put your last 2 to waste. In my opinion, better to take out loans if you need them, because you should be able to pay them back with your PhD salary. Maybe your wife can get creative and start childcare for other working parents to help supplement your income?
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Woop woop. Admitted to Stanford! Its not too late hahahah
Congrats! Email or snail mail?
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Is anyone else concerned that they were accepted to a higher ranked school and won't be accepted into one that is lower ranked? This raises some questions, like how reliable are these ranking systems? Some Ivy League schools are ranked lower than non Ivy League schools; can they be more selective?
Although ranking certainly isn't everything, schools are ranked the way they are for a reason, and there are a lot of contributing factors. Funding, reputation, and renowned faculty members certainly play into these rankings, but they don't dictate admissions. Granted, a higher ranked school will likely have a larger applicant pool, but that doesn't mean that the admissions committee is more selective. A higher ranked program may have a better funding for a larger incoming class, and therefore be able to accept more students than a lower ranked program, so a student applying to both may certainly be accepted to the higher ranked and rejected from the lower ranked. You also need to look at how the programs stack up for different specialties. Some schools may be ranked a little lower overall, but have a very highly ranked analytical chemistry program, and therefore be much more competitive for analytical than they are for organic.
Also, research interests are a large factor in admissions. If you apply to a program and indicate an interest in 3 different groups, but 1 professor is retiring and another is no longer taking new students, your admissions decision may be left to the 3rd professor who may or may not find you to be a good fit. However, if all of the labs you are interested in are growing and taking new students, there is more flexibility there. So all in all, it is perfectly reasonable to get accepted to a higher ranked program and rejected from a lower ranked program. This says nothing about the accuracy or reliability of the rankings. Always fun to keep us guessing, I suppose!
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Dear Everyone,
Please stop freaking out, pitying yourself, and asking if you should assume rejections from every school you haven't heard from. A lot of programs had very recent deadlines (Stanford, GTech, and Wisconsin-Madison were all less than 2 weeks ago!). You can't assume that the professors and admissions committees at these schools are looking at our applications 24/7. There are a LOT of applications to consider, and these things take time. So, CHILL OUT! I heard from 2 schools today - UChicago & GTech, so CLEARLY some programs are still making decisions. Hope for the best, and don't assume rejections for at least another month. No one on this forum knows whether or not you should assume rejection unless they've contacted the program and asked. Best of luck to you all
SIncerely, Liveoak.
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Just got an acceptance email from Georgia Tech. 2 schools in one day... I'm in a pretty good mood!
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Got an acceptance phone call this morning from University of Chicago!
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Chronos &/or quimico, how did you hear from Chicago? I saw on the results page that a lot of people got rejected by snail mail. Wasn't sure if the same goes for acceptances.
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I'm waiting for UT-Austin too! I keep checking online and it says "in review." I've only seen a couple acceptances so hopefully there will be more.
I know UT Austin doesn't even really start reviewing applications until after winter break (and they didn't even start back to school til last Tuesday), so I wouldn't be too worried about it! I'm sure there's plenty of time left for acceptance offers!
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech): March 1-3 or March 22-24
Cornell: March 2-4 or March 30-April 1
MIT: March 30-April 1
U Chicago: February 16-18 or March 8-10
U Florida: February 17-19 or March 16-18
UIUC: Feb 17-18 or March 2-3 or March 23-24 or March 9-10 (Pchem) or March 30-31 (Pchem)
UNC Chapel Hill: March 9-12 or March 30 - April 1
UT Southwestern (Interview): Feb 2-4
Yale (General Chemistry): March 22-24
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Heard back from Delaware and Penn State. Anyone else applying there? : )
For those that got offers by email, how long does it take for the official letters to arrive?
The UIUC email had a pdf of the official letter attached, and said they would be mailing the official letter the day that the email was sent, so I'm expecting it will arrive tomorrow or the next day, but I'll be out of town and won't see it for a couple weeks.
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also got my UIUC offer for p.chem, best email I have ever opened. considering it was one of my top choices I can now rest easy and enjoy the holidays
Any idea what time frame you'll visit? The offer letter made it sound like they don't have pre-determined recruiting weekends, and you can just visit whenever?
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Just got my UIUC acceptance for physical chemistry! 1 down, 5 to go!
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Hey guys,
I wanted to get some opinions on a problem I really wish I wasn't having right now. My profile for applications (fall 2012) looks like this:
at a top 25 public university
GPA: 3.8/4.0
GPA (chem): 3.9/4.0
GRE (gen): V: 152 (56%), Q: 160 *84%), AW: 4.5 (76%)
Research experience since end of sophomore year, along with REU at Colorado State
The problem: I just got back my Chem GRE scores by calling ETS, and they are FAR below what I would like (<40%)
Obviously by my GPA you can see that this is not my normal performance. I did not have the time I would have liked to prepare for this test and had other circumstances preventing me from doing well on test day.
My question is whether I should try to address this in my SoP (with out making excuses, somehow) or just leave it out. And also is there a way to stop the ETS from sending it to school who do not request it? I was applying to Yale, Princeton, and Columbia who all at least RECOMMEND it, so I just threw it on my non-stretch schools that I was already sending my general scores to as well (Colorado State, NC State, Vanderbilt).
Any information you can provide is greatly appreciated
Don't sweat it! My undergrad research advisor went to Stanford with a GRE subject score in that range. And no, I don't think you recall score reports. They shouldn't use those against you though it they aren't required.
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How important is the Chem GRE score though? I think only my app to UCSD will be incomplete without it, everywhere else either doesn't have much of a comment on Chem GRE scores or says they are recommended but not required. And UNC says specifically not to send them.
Anyway I'm taking mine this Saturday... so hopefully it's not too big of a deal. Or maybe I should call UCSD to make sure the relative lateness with them is ok? Can't imagine it being a big problem, schools should have even mine by early January.
Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Illinois U-C, and Northwestern all state that the subject GRE is required. Other schools do list them as optional or just recommended but definitely make sure you check. For UCSD, just check what the application deadline is. It would definitely be a good idea to call if your scores are not reported by their deadline.
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