2022 Chemistry Admissions Cycle Thread

[Scramblase]

I got an interview invite for UT Southwestern Organic today! The main interview day seems to be the same as the UT Austin date I signed up for which is unfortunate.

I'd also be interested if anyone heard back about Caltech organic or chem bio (I'm not personally expecting to get an interview though).

[Saisei]

On 12/27/2021 at 3:37 PM, chemnerd101 said:

Hi!

I see that some people have posted about acceptances/interviews from northwestern. If this applies to you, what division did you apply to? I'm trying to figure out if NW organic has made any decisions yet. Thanks!

I just got in today for inorganic! I'm excited lol

[rubysaerosol]

I was accepted to CU Boulder and UC Irvine for analytical/atmospheric chemistry! Does anyone have any insight into how these two programs compare? 

[rhenium-bipyridine]

I just got accepted into UC Berkeley via email from one of the professors I'm interested in.

[spheniscidae21]

6 hours ago, rhenium-bipyridine said:

I just got accepted into UC Berkeley via email from one of the professors I'm interested in.

Which field of chemistry did you apply to?

[Collegesenior]

On 1/2/2022 at 5:58 PM, rubysaerosol said:

I was accepted to CU Boulder and UC Irvine for analytical/atmospheric chemistry! Does anyone have any insight into how these two programs compare? 

 Both are mediocre 

[_laser]

has anyone in physical chemistry heard anything from MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Princeton, or UC Berkeley?

[cowboyeet]

On 12/22/2021 at 10:47 PM, Umpolung said:

Slightly curious, has anyone in this thread also applied to the NSF GRFP to fund grad school? It seems as if fewer students applied this year which is unusual.

I did

[cowboyeet]

On 12/28/2021 at 6:59 PM, spheniscidae21 said:

Anyone heard from UCI for organic? Also, it seems like Caltech did not send out interview invitations before Christmas this year. Are we expecting to hear something soon?

Still haven't heard from UCI ?

[rubysaerosol]

58 minutes ago, Collegesenior said:

 Both are mediocre 

You're not even in my subfield, not looking from arguably useless insight from you. 

[VashtaNerada]

2 hours ago, _laser said:

has anyone in physical chemistry heard anything from MIT, Caltech, UChicago, Princeton, or UC Berkeley?

No word for me from Caltech, I'm in Theoretical/Computational. Perhaps they aren't doing interviews this year? It seemed like interviews were new last year, so perhaps they decided against doing more of those.

[pyrophoric]

10 minutes ago, VashtaNerada said:

No word for me from Caltech, I'm in Theoretical/Computational. Perhaps they aren't doing interviews this year? It seemed like interviews were new last year, so perhaps they decided against doing more of those.

I have a feeling decisions/interviews are possibly delayed because of Caltech's recent loss (Grubbs) since he was still an active professor, I'm only guessing (and I think this would only go for organic). 

Edited January 5, 2022 by Umpolung

[chemicalbiology]

On 12/22/2021 at 11:55 AM, chemicalbiology said:

UCSF Chemistry and Chemical Biology - interview invite Dec 9, email 

Berkeley Molecular and Cell Bio (will apply chem bio track)- call from PI Dec 16 (official invite send in Jan)

Stanford Chemical and Systems Bio - interview invite Dec 21, email 

Princeton Molecular Bio- interview invite Dec 22, call

 

Harvard Chemical Biology - interview invite Jan 5, email!

[Saisei]

I got an interview from Caltech and I'm scared lol

[VashtaNerada]

19 minutes ago, Saisei said:

I got an interview from Caltech and I'm scared lol

Congrats! What division?

[swimster]

I finally caved in to making an account once Caltech interviews were mentioned lol??

Did organic division at Caltech send out interviews? If not, can someone that is organic and receives an interview post about it here whenever they do? Desperately wanting to know if I will get an interview or not lol, I can't play this waiting game

Edited January 6, 2022 by swimster

[chem3097]

2 minutes ago, swimster said:

I can't play this waiting game

On this note, does anyone know how it works if you don't get in somewhere? Will you also get an email around the same time?

[swimster]

1 minute ago, chem3097 said:

On this note, does anyone know how it works if you don't get in somewhere? Will you also get an email around the same time?

I believe rejection notices are generally sent out much after acceptances/interviews

[rhenium-bipyridine]

2 hours ago, VashtaNerada said:

Congrats! What division?

I’m not OP for that comment, but also got an interview invite for inorganic today

[ferrous]

Also got an interview from Caltech for inorganic

Edited January 6, 2022 by ferrous

[ferrous]

Seems like more people are invited for Caltech interviews than last year...

Edited January 6, 2022 by ferrous

[spheniscidae21]

Anyone in organic heard from UCSD?

[spheniscidae21]

I just saw someone posted a rejection from Berkeley. This is the first rejection I have seen in this cycle and I was wondering if anyone in organic heard from Berkeley.

[MonkeyFan]

1 minute ago, spheniscidae21 said:

I just saw someone posted a rejection from Berkeley. This is the first rejection I have seen in this cycle and I was wondering if anyone in organic heard from Berkeley.

nope, still waiting for Berkeley, Caltech, and Harvard

[swimster]

48 minutes ago, spheniscidae21 said:

I just saw someone posted a rejection from Berkeley. This is the first rejection I have seen in this cycle and I was wondering if anyone in organic heard from Berkeley.

I'm organic, I got a call from a Berkeley professor on New Years. 

Edited January 6, 2022 by swimster