Chances of being admitted

scaleupchem
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:47:56 +0000

Dude,

You have a 1560 GRE score, which is 40 points shy of a perfect score. Your GPA is solid, and you have research; what are you worring about? And what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to go into industry after your PhD or do you want to go into academia? If you want to go into industry after your PhD, literally any school will get you there. If you want to go into academia, stick to the large research universities. Just apply broadly and see what happens, and remember that the worst thing that can happen is that they say no. If you talk to anyone who has went through this process, they will tell you they heard “no” more than once during this time. My co-worker got her PhD from Penn, but she applied to 13 schools, and was rejected from by 11 which were not on the level of Penn. Just some food for thought.