PhD Chemical Engineering-What are my chances?

BlackBoy
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:39:45 +0000

@ Safego
Really brainy of u. Yeah I’m a young Nigerian passionate about achieving my life dream of being a pundit in my field.

@Batllo
I’m also thinking of appling to more schools, but i’m just a bit confused which ones i should choose. Any idea could be really helpful.
‘Research’ - I know my research experience may not be good enough, but it’s not my fault. Nigeria doens’t give any regard to research, unlike the American government. Only very few and probably the easiest research can be initiated, carried out and completed in Nigeria. So, undergraduate research work is almost the only opportunity you have as a Nigerian student to have a feel of what research is like.

@gthopeful
I graduated from a Nigerian University (actually the first chemical engineering department in Africa) late last year.
Before graduation, I had a few months internship as a petroleum engineer trainee in a Nigerian subsidiary of an American Oil giant. What about that?

Generally now, I’ve not applied to these schools, what do you think i should do?
Go ahead and apply to them and to a couple of other schools?
Apply to one or two of them and then to others?
Take another GRE?