[2012 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

On 2/3/2012 at 11:28 AM, hope4fall2012 said:

Nice profile!!!

Is this the University of Washington, Seattle? If you don't mind, which department?

Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) - EPS

[2012 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

I'm interested in cosmochemistry and exoplanets. I was accepted by the Geochemistry division at UCLA - I didn't talk to anyone specifically at that school before applying.

[2012 Applicant Profiles and Admission Results]

Undergrad Institution: Top ten research university

Majors: EPS, Astro, Math

Overall GPA: 3.85

Type of Student: Domestic

GRE Scores (old version):

Q: 800

V: 750

AWA: 5.5

Research Experience: Undergraduate researcher for four years, senior honors thesis, worked for one year after that in a lab, summer internship at STSci (Hubble)

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Two NASA research grants during undergrad, Dean's list every term, university's research grant for one summer, Phi Beta Kappa, undergrad thesis award, a few more

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Worked as a research assistant for one year after graduation

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Seven publications, one submitted to Science, several conference presentations

Special Bonus Points: Research interests align with profs at many schools

Applying to

WashU - accepted

UCLA - accepted

University of Chicago - accepted with additional McCormick fellowship for first two years

University of Hawai'i

Columbia