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Did anyone else receive an email from Columbia regarding their Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT fellowship for sustainable energy research? It seems like a general email to all chemistry, physics, and chemical physics applicants from the grad school. I wanted to make sure before I responded that I wasn't interested, being that I am interested in bio and org chem.

Is anyone applying for the UNC at chapel hill BBSP program? Or have you heard if they are still extending invitations to interview?

haha yes I do... It's finals week on top of all these apps. Needless to say I'm not getting as much sleep as I should be.

Eigen and LiveOak, Thanks for the encouragement and advice. Another quick question. I am submitting my SoP's and noticed most of mine are about 60 words over the normal 1000 word limit. Do you know how strick they are about this? I feel that I am already leaving things out to cut it down to this and cutting another paragraph would be very difficult.

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