E-mail from department head, my first offer! Applied for physical chemistry. 1.5 yrs research at undergrad, 1.5 years research at a national lab, 9 poster and oral presentations, no publications. Graduated summa with chemistry and voice performance double major, general GRE scores are meh, did not report GRE subject test, 3 very strong LORs. Good luck everyone!

Five years of research experience, 1 publication, and an REU at a top ten chemistry school. Received the official offer letter and fellowship notification in an email. Surprised to hear back this early!

To the person asking prior, I do think it looked like a mass email from the admission head’s email (only personalization was the first and last name).

To the poster below: does not seem like it was a mass email.

Just got my first acceptance! Hoping to get in better places, fingers crossed!

Applied for Organic Chemistry. 3 years of research experience, 1 industry internship. 5 conference presentations with one first prize award, no publications. 3 strong letters of recommendation. No GRE Subject exam, above average GRE General exam. Goldwater.

Experimental PChem. No publications but 2.5 years research experience, 3.94 GPA double major physics and chemistry. 3 great letters from well known physical chemists.

Decent GPA, one good LOR, two okay ones, one year of research experience, decent general GRE and chem GRE

Chemistry Department of the University of Toronto takes up to 3 international students each year, but they earn a department's budget for 1 year from the application fees of large numbers of international students. All Canadian universities are poor.