Excellent chemsitry score, normal GRA, fair GRE, good recommendation letters and research background. Fair TOEFL with extremely LOW speaking score. Rejected even having done researches as a visiting scholar at UMich for several months.

Excellent chemsitry score, normal GRA, fair GRE, good recommendation letters and research background. Fair TOEFL with extremely LOW speaking score.

thought NESCAC school would be friendly

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3xyears research, minority research program participant,

3xyears research, minority research program participant,

3xyears research, minority research program participant,

3xyears research, minority research program participant,

3xyears research, minority research program participant,

3 years research experience, minority research program participant

Very disappointed

Different person, but answer the question posted below. They asked why you applied penn state, and what your future goal is.

5 semesters of working as a TA, a tutor and a recitation leader and 2 semesters of stockroom and writing assistant work. Multiple conferences plus first prize for an oral presentation at one of them. 3+ years of research (including three winters and one summer) plus an honors college thesis directly related to the field i applied to. Several ACS chemistry awards. My CV and rec letters should compensate for my decent GRE scores. Only rejections so far, I don’t get it. Good luck to all those still waiting.

For the person below asking about Columbia’s acceptance letters, I also have the same question. There has been no update from them at all since the initial wave of acceptances from them.