[Ch3mister]

Hello,

I am just curious on how I stand in getting into graduate school. I am currently a Biochemistry (ACS cert.) major at WSU with a 3.37 GPA at WSU. I have am currently working on my 2nd year of undergraduate research in Organic Chemistry, with some lab experience (outside the university). I have been a TA for 2 separate semesters, once for Organic Chemistry and the other for Intro. to Chem. I will have three great recommendation letters when the time comes. I have not taken the GRE yet but I tookd the GRE prep on the GRE website and princeton review and score above a 1100 (on the old scale). I am still studying an reviewing for my test in 4 weeks so it will hopefully got up more.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could please give me there 2 cents on how I stand on to get into graduate school. Also, I have selected 10 schools (none top 15), that I believe are in my range, they are ranked in order of rating...
1)    Texas A&M University
2)    University of Washington
3)    Rice University
4)    University of Utah
5)    Iowa State University
6)    Virginia Tech
7)   University of Houston
8 )   Baylor University
9)   University of Texas-Dallas
10)  University of Wisconsin- Milwalkee

I really want to get into either A&M or Baylor..

If anyone could please help me out or give me advice that would be great!
Thanks for your help

[Dan]

If you want to know the admission criteria for a grad school it would probably be sensible for you to phone their admissions office and ask the questions to them. It's their job to know these things.

[enahs]

You are probably in range for schools in the top 10 as well assuming you do decent on the GRE(s). You will need the chem GRE I suspect for many of those schools.

But your personal statement will be a major deciding factor; so do that really well.

Apply to some top 10 schools if you wish. Austin is "#12" and in Texas. I will tell you that if you go to a public school in Texas, and are a Texas native, they give you extra money!