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He is inorganic. Strangely enough, is MIT one of those schools that overrides your low GPA (3.03 / 4.00) if you have 170 on GRE Math and 950 on Chem GRE? Those were my friend's statistics. I thought it was kinda weird since Nitroglycerin didn't take the Chem GRE, so I'm guessing Chem GRE isn't even required, yet the Chem GRE seems to be the deciding factor in my friend's admission.

I know a person who was admitted to MIT yesterday except I'm not sure if we are thinking of the same person.

For the GRE Chemistry code, GRXX27, where "GR" stands for GRE, "27" stands for the Chemistry subject code, and XX stands for the year it is administered in like 90 means 1990, 06 means 2006, etc. Is there a way to know what month of the year it was administered in? Also is it true that in "1 cycle of the school year" where October is the start of the cycle and April is the end of the cycle, that the GRE Chemistry exams administered in that time frame has similar questions? By this, I mean like the October 2011 exam has similar (sometimes even exact questions) as those found on the November 2011 exam and April 2012 exam? Has anyone taken the Chemistry GRE more than once in 1 cycle? The reason why I ask this is because my professor says he thinks he still has the prep book that contains the 1977-1978 exam as well as another version of the prep book by ETS that has the 1978 exam and he recalled that the exams were indentical (but he still needs to find the book and double check). He might have gotten the years wrong, so it could have been something like 1975-1976 and another 1976 book.

How many full length exams are on the book, "GRE: Practicing to Take the Chemistry Test", 3rd edition? Or rather the question I should ask is what edition did you used that has 2 full length practice exams (since you said 4 total counting the 2000 and 2006 exams).

Is there a difference between the qualifying exam and the oral exam in PhD Chemistry?

What are preliminaries? Are they the same as diagnostic exams or are they similar to oral exams?

How do you prepare for PhD Chemistry Diagnostic Exams (ACS Exams) without the actual study guide for the corresponding ACS Exam? I obtained the study guide for general, organic, and physical, but how do you prepare for the biochemistry, inorganic and analytical chemistry exams if these study guides aren't made available yet? Should I review my class notes and textbooks?

Should I use textbooks, old exams, prep books, class notes, online notes, etc.?

Don't you mean "strict"?

Is your program funded? If it is a free degree, then there is nothing to lose besides time.

Grades shouldn't be a problem if graduate students have the power to drop classes all the way up to the last day of classes. Does anyone here attending a graduate program that allows the graduate students to drop classes all the way up to the last day of classes? If so, what is the name of your school? So far, I only know of UCSB and UIUC of doing this.

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/Exams/default.htm The exams shown on this link are very difficult. So how would one go about in preparing for them? It looks like it is almost impossible to prepare for them. Some of my Chemistry professors say that even they have trouble completing the questions.

I'm not taking a year off.

Are preliminaries the same as diagnostic exams? If so, then yes. I already ordered the 3 study guides.

Can anyone order any of the ACS exams or do you have to be a teacher, instructor, or professor?

Then I guess UIUC and UCSB are one of the few graduate programs that allow graduate students to drop their classes all the way up to the last day of classes.

Do all PhD programs use ACS exams for their diagnostic exams? Do some programs make up their own diagnostic exams?

Don't graduate students have the power to drop a class all the way up to the last day of classes?

Do all universities use ACS exams for their diagnostic exams? How would one study for cumulative exams besides reading the proposed journal articles the professor tells us? So far good textbooks I came across are: Inorganic: Inorganic Chemistry, 4e by Catherine Housecroft Physical: Atkins McQuarry Biochemistry Garrett Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, Nelson, Cox Organic Brown, Foote Bruice The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Mechanisms Analytical Harris General Chemistry: Chemistry, The Central Science Can anyone think of others?

I am still a 2nd year student, so I will take that class in Fall 2012. Don't you mean "Angewandte Chemie"? Also regarding impact factor, what is the cut off for the index for the journal to be considered "A-Level"? People are saying I should try to work for a PI that has lots of publications in high impact journals.

http://apps.webofknowledge.com/UA_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=4EfaKC1biB2Gk24bFKj&preferencesSaved= How would I go about in searching for scientific journal articles? Would this website be a good choice?

Besides SOP, our undergraduate research, and LORs, how else can we show research fit?

What exactly is "research fit"? Is "research fit" how well your undergraduate research projects match up with the projects you will be doing for you PhD research? Let's say if I am already doing undergraduate research in renewable energy right now, would doing undergraduate research in another branch of renewable energy at a REU site increase my "research fit" for PhD applications? Is it possible for one to abuse "research fit" to get oneself's foot in the door and then switch PIs to a different group where that new group interests you more? Thanks.

Yes, I know. Going to a quarter system school sucks because your REU options are limited. What are some good quarter system research universities in USA besides U of Chicago, U of California, U of Oregon, Northwestern, Stanford, and Caltech? I can't think of any other ones.

I know for a fact I want to work with inorganic chemistry, materials, renewable energy for my PhD in inorganic chemistry or materials. Can someone suggest me REU sites that cover these areas? I go on a quarter system, so the REU would need to start June 18th 2012 or later.