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I agree with ANDS!. The front line for recruiting is not the email, but the website. When I got recruitment emails, I almost always checked out the website. A poorly designed website was frustrating. For chemistry, I think one of the most crucial features is dividing faculty by sub-discipline and making sure that there are clear, concise research summaries for all of them. The research was always the first thing I checked. Everything else is important, but without the research, I'd stop looking. On the emails, this is a nitpick-y point, but I would advise against attempting to "personalize" the emails by using names. Schools got my information from the GRE which uses my legal name, but I almost exclusively go by a nickname. It was always a little jarring to see. Good luck!

mecho, When you created your account, you chose a username and password. That's what the box is asking for. I suspect that the website just remembers yours username and password for a limited amount of time, so in December you never had to enter it. Now that it's been a little longer, you need to re-enter it.

GalliumSpoon, I'm with mcstev13 that it's too soon to start worrying. On the MIT front, it seems that all the of the people who have heard are inorganic (there may have been one biochem). We haven't heard from any pchems yet, so relax. In previous years, MIT didn't send anything this early.

twb, Yeah, I'm inorganic, so it's quite possible us inorganically inclined chemists are the only ones who have been evaluated/notified. It's also still really early in the admissions season: the MIT website says we are supposed to get responses in mid-February. Given that, I would try not to be concerned if you haven't heard anything yet.

Hey, I'm the one who got admitted to MIT on the 31st. (So excited!) It was actually the 30th in America, but because I'm living abroad right now, the time zones are a bit weird. So my stats: GPA: 4.0 GRE: V740 (99%ile), Q800 (94%ile), A4.5 (72%ile), Chem GRE: N/A 1 semester and 1 summer research in 2 different labs 1 year studying chemistry (exclusively) at Oxford Tutoring and Teaching Experience Good luck to everyone who applied! The only problem with hearing from them so early is that this will make the wait to hear from my other schools feel much longer. And SpenzK, I agree, it was the absolute best way to start the new year!